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CONTENTS Volume 52, Number 4 Feature

Iron Index 2013 The heart of the Canadian printing industry remains with commercial printers rooted in offset production, even as they shift their production mix toward inkjet and toner technologies

NEWS Ron Voigt becomes President of X-Rite, CCL Industries acquires Avery Dennison assets, and Stephen Harper turns his hockey book over to an American publisher

CALENDAR April 2013 Grafik’Art Montreal occupies 120,000 square feet of space, BCPIA hosts G7 in the real world, and IDEAlliance presents the Luminaires at the Pierre Hotel

EDUCATION RyeTAGA Innovation Students from Ryerson’s GCM program share their challenges and triumphs in producing an award-winning journal for the TAGA conference in Portland

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VICTORIA GAITSKELL Newborn Print Owners After a year of planning, the newly formed National Print Owners Association is ready to host its first, sold-out conference in April MARTIN HABEKOST Technically Speaking, Print is Alive and Well Innovation is still on the printing horizon according to four high-profile keynotes at the 65th annual Technical Association of the Graphic Arts conference

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PERSPECTIVE

The Graceful Hippo ne of the key advantages for PrintAction in producing the Iron Index on an annual basis is that, over a few weeks, we are afforded the opportunity to directly speak with dozens of Oprinters of all shapes and sizes across the country. The PrintAction team unanimously agrees that 2013 represented one of the most-positive series of responses from Canadian printers in a number of years. Conducting the Iron Index survey had become somewhat of a harrowing experience with printers answering their phones and emails in an understandably negative state of mind about lingering economic woes. This year’s more positive outlook within Canada’s printing market can be directly linked to a well-governed Canadian economy that has more than held its own relative to the travails of several European economies and the United States. In conjunction with these rough economic waves initiated out of the late-2008 United States banking crisis, it has likely taken the past four or five years for many Canadian printers to wean themselves off of the U.S. market, or find new avenues into it, as dictated by a long run with a strong Canadian dollar. At the beginning of March, however, the Canadian dollar fell below 97 cents U.S. for the first time in eight months, which economists tie to the softening of commodity prices, decreased retail spending and – perhaps, most alarming – an ever weakening housing market. Home sales in the Greater Vancouver area fell by 29.4 percent in February 2013 relative to the corresponding period of a year earlier, according to the city’s realtor association. The weakening dollar also acknowledges Canada’s third straight quarter of holding a current account deficit – the difference between a country’s total exports and its total imports, which has plagued the United States for a number of years now. Several economists suggest the loonie remains overvalued. The Federal government also recently released its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) numbers for 2012, which included a very sluggish growth of just 0.6 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012. This is still the best such result of all G7 countries, which prompted Douglas Porter, Chief Economist at BMO Capital Markets, to comment, “[It’s] akin to being the most graceful and lithe hippo in the zoo.” For 2012 as a whole, GDP growth in Canada reached just 1.8 percent, which Richard Blackwell of The Globe and Mail reports to be the first time in six years that Canada’s full-year numbers were lower than those of the United States. Blackwell points out that the Canadian economy grew by 2.6 percent in 2011 and by 3.2 percent in 2010. Looking out to 2013, Blackwell’s report claims several economists expect Canada’s economy to remain sluggish with an expansion of no more than 1.5 percent. The Bank of Canada’s current projection stood at two percent GDP growth for 2013. It is likely the Bank of Canada will soon raise interest rates if it takes stock in what most economists are predicting for the year ahead. Given the sluggish predictions for Canada’s economy in 2013, there is certainly a lot of work ahead for many printers facing the continuing maturation of digital communications. After successive years of a relatively stable domestic economy, and healthier results coming out of the United States, printers in Canada clearly hold a much more positive attitude about their future, which is the ultimate ingredient for success. Jon Robinson, Editor

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This issue of PrintAction is printed on 80lb Sterling Premium Gloss and 70lb Velvet Text available from Unisource Canada. Youngblood Publishing Ltd. 610 Alden Rd., Suite 100, Markham, ON L3R 9Z1 Tel: 416.665.7333 • Fax: 905.752.1441 www.printaction.com Publications Mail Agreement Number 40010868 • ISSN 1481-9287 Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to subscriptions@printaction.com We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Periodical Fund of the Department of Canadian Heritage. 4 • PRINTACTION • MARCH 2013

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PRINT NEWS CCL INDUSTRIES of Toronto, a global packaging power, primarily in the label sector, is spending around $500 million to purchase two business units of office products maker Avery Dennison Corporation. CCL Industries is acquiring Avery Dennison office and consumer products, as well as its designed and engineered solutions businesses. These Avery Dennison businesses had combined revenues of approximately $910 million in 2012. Led by President and CEO, Geoffrey Martin, CCL IndusRON VOIGT becomes President of X-Rite tries consists of three divisions: CCL Inc., the parent company of Pantone LLC, Label, CCL Container and CCL Tube with following the March 1, 2013, retirement of over 70 manufacturing facilities in North Tom Vacchiano, who takes on an advisory America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, role. Largely under Vacchiano’s leadership, Australia and Africa operated by approxiX-Rite became the world’s dominant mately 6,600 dedicated employees. player in colour imaging science and technology, first by acquiring Amazys, owners of Gretag-Macbeth, in 2006, and then Pantone in 2007. X-Rite itself was purchased in April 2012 for approximately $625 million by Danaher Corp., which is the parent company of Esko and Videojet. Today, Danaher employs over 59,000 associates working with customers in more than 125 countries. In 2011, the company generated $16.1 billion of revenue. KATHY ABUSOW, CEO of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI), announced plans to deliver up to $400,000 to support research into responsible forestry practices in 2013. This amount includes ongoing multi-year research grant commitments for projects awarded to groups like Ducks Unlimited Canada and the World Resources Institute. Ducks Unlimited Canada’s grant supports developing and testing best management practices for forestry roads on SFI ANTHONY CLARKE becomes the Director program participant managed lands that of Sales and Marketing for Mitchell Press serve to protect wetland ecosystems in the of Burnaby, British Columbia. Clarke Western Boreal Forest. Results to date first joined the company, described as the include the construction of five monitored largest commercial heat-set web facility wetland-crossing sites. A sixth wetland in Western Canada, in 2010. In June crossing is planned for 2013. 2012, Mitchell Press purchased the assets of nearby Teldon Print Media. Mitchell Press, now in its third generation of family ownership, was founded in 1928 by Howard Mitchell Sr. In 2008, the company moved from its Kitsilano facility in Vancouver, where it had operated for over 50 years, to a new, custom-built printing plant in south Burnaby. KODAK on May 1 is to end its distribution agreement with Heidelberg Canada, which will no longer resell Kodak imaging products. Kodak announced it has partnered with Spicers Canada as its national distributor. While Spicers had previously distributed Kodak plates, CTP and workflow in addition to the NexPress line, the company will now have additional access to Kodak’s inkjet printing and packaging portfolios. A Kodak statement reads: “Kodak is expanding its relationship with Spicers Canada because we believe it will support the best interests of our customers. Our top priority is helping our customers make a successful transition to purchase Kodak plates, CTP, workflow, and other leading solutions from Spicers.” 6 • PRINTACTION • MARCH 2013

FLASH REPRODUCTIONS and Unisource Canada partnered to launch Wayward Arts magazine, a new publication to highlight Canadian design studios, which was celebrated at the Revival Bar and Lounge in Toronto by Rich and Carl Pauptit of Flash Reproductions with Dave Jackson and Tom Deighton of Unisource. The first issue of Wayward Arts features work by Typotherapy, a boutique design studio founded in Toronto by Creative Director Noël Nanton. Each month, a different award-winning Canadian studio is given access to paper and print craftsmanship to produce the magazine of their dreams.

ND GRAPHICS with nine stocking locations across Canada, entered into new distribution agreements with Seiko Instruments USA Inc., which primarily develops printing systems for the signage sector, and FiberMark, a manufacturer of specialty cellulose and synthetic fibrebased printing medias. The distribution partnership with FiberMark is an exclusive Canadian master agreement. ND Graphics was formed in the Toronto area in 1981 to focus on the large-format sigPETER LI, VP of Operations for Sing Tao nage market. Today, the company also Daily, Canadian eastern edition, oversaw has Canadian branches in Dartmouth, the installation of a new six-tower Goss Montreal, Ottawa, London, Winnipeg, Community press. The operation, which Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver. recently moved into a new printing plant in Markham, Ontario, is controlled by Sing Tao News Corp. Founded in 1978, Sing Tao Daily is described as the largest Chineselanguage daily newspaper in Canada. Its new press is to consist of six four-high towers and two folders for printing the Toronto daily editions, as well as five weekly supplements and two independent weekly magazines. Comprising five broadsheet sections for each daily edition, the main eastern edition achieves readership figures in the region of 200,000 copies per issue.

MARI ELIA becomes an Account Executive with Prime Imaging, which primarily focuses on large-format and commercial printing markets. With over a decade of professional experience within distribution, supply chain, manufacturing and retail industries, Elia is described by Scott Currie, owner and Managing Director of Prime Imaging, as having a deep understanding of print project management – “a perfect fit for our company culture.” Now celebrating its 30th year of operation, Prime Imaging is housed in a 12,000square-foot facility in Toronto’s east end.

STEPHEN HARPER, Prime Minster of Canada, is to have his book about hockey history published in the United States because of what a report by The Globe and Mail refers to as “prohibitions embedded in the government’s own cultural policy.” Publishing of the book was awarded to U.S.-based Simon & Schuster because of its willingness to distribute throughout North America. The current Investment Canada Act forbids foreign companies from publishing books in Canada alone, but allows them to distribute here if the book is actually published outside of Canada. The book is to be released in November, with author royalties going to Military Families Fund of the Canadian Forces Personnel and Family Support Services. IPEX 2014 organizers, Informa Exhibitions, in response to numerous companies pulling out of the United Kingdom trade show, have cut the exhibition by two days and reduced the show floor size from 100,000 m2 to 60,000 m2. Most recently, Kodak, Komori and Roland DGM announced they would not participate, joining earlier withdrawals by key technology suppliers like Agfa, Heidelberg, HP and Xerox.

READER’S DIGEST’s parent company RDA Holding Co. filed for bankruptcy on Monday after struggling to contain its $465 million debt. This is the second time in less than four years it has done so. The company says the filing will allow it to cut its debt and keep restructuring. RDA Holding ONLINE PRINT DECOR of Toronto pur- aims to emerge from Chapter 11 within six chased an Agfa :Anapurna 2540FB, which months. RDA Holdings publishes 75 pubwas celebrated by Agfa’s George Henry lications around the world, including with Online Print Decor’s Ray Garcia and 49 editions of Reader’s Digest. In 2011, President Timothy Faught. The six- the company generated $1.38 billion in colour UV device with an independent revenues. In Canada, it publishes Reader’s white ink channel is built on what Agfa Digest Canada, Our Canada and most refers to as a true flatbed architecture. recently announced, Taste of Home Canada.

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sauga company and operates out of an 11,000-square-foot plant. It is described by RP Graphics as a single-source supplier for a range of large format inkjet and point of purchase applications. In December 2012, RP Graphics purchased all outstanding shares of Data in Motion Marketing, a variable data imaging and specialty finishing company. That acquisition added significant capacity for RP Graphics to manage and process direct-mail work. TED MARKLE becomes President of TC Media, which employs around 4,000 people and in 2012 generated $712 million in revenues for the Montreal-based TC Transcontinental Corporation. Markle joined Transcontinental in 1999 and since 2011 served as Senior Vice President, Content Solutions, for TC Media.

IAN CAMPBELL, owner of a Kwik Kopy franchise in Toronto, added a new Morgana DigiFold PRO and Matrix-370 laminator, purchased from Sydney Stone. The DigiFold PRO, using a crease matrix and flying knife-fold technology, is designed to overcome the difficulties of cracking toner when folding full-cover brochures.

BRAD NOEL, a 17-year veteran of the graphic arts industry, has joined Unisource in its Wide Format segment as Sales Manager for the Eastern region of Canada. He most recently served as a sales executive with Proveer. “We are happy to have Brad Noel on our team. His experience and his passion for what he does make him great for this role,” said Angela Olsen, Director of Sales at Unisource Canada.

FUJIFILM opened its new inkjet ink manufacturing facility located at its existing plant in Broadstairs, United Kingdom. The new ink facility has been in the works for two years with an investment of over €4 million, as well as an additional €2.5 million invested to upgrade the R&D department. More than 340 MARC FORTIER, President of RP Graphics employees work at the Fujifilm Broadin Mississauga, led the acquisition of stairs site and today more than 80 percent Canadian Impact Imaging Corporation to of them are involved in inkjet ink R&D expand the company’s presence in large- and manufacturing. All of Fujifilm’s format production. Founded in 1998, inkjet ink supplies sold in the Canadian Canadian Impact Imaging is also a Missis- market come from this facility.

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PRINT CALENDAR The Pierre Hotel on Fifth Avenue in New York opened in 1930, precisely at the lowest point of the Great Depression. Though it cost $15 million to construct, it went bankrupt in 1932 and was sold in 1938 for $2.5 million and later turned into cooperative apartments. Its residents over the years included Elizabeth Taylor and Yves St. Laurent. In 2009, the hotel underwent an 18-month, $100 million renovation.

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Now in its 24th year, the Printing Industries of America presents its Continuous Improvement Conference with the theme of Driving Organization Excellence. Attendees will learn the latest concepts in lean manufacturing to reduce costs, drive down waste and increase profit. $1,295

The Binding Industries Association Annual Conference will feature tours of three major binding operations in the Indianapolis area: D.E. Baugh, Eckhart & Co., and Rosee Gage. The conference will present strategies both on and off the production floor as well as induct two new members to the BIA Hall of Fame. $950

The International Converting Exhibition, a biannual show touted as North America’s leading exhibition for converting machinery, is held at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. The show features over 300 exhibitors and has technical conference presentations by converting trade organizations. $79

IDEAlliance presents the 2013 Luminaire Awards at The Pierre Hotel in New York, an event to recognize individuals whose spirit, creativity, commitment and inspiration have led to the transformation of the industry. The awards will also raise funds to assist the next generation of graphic communications members. $425

Xplor presents its annual user conference in St. Petersburg, Florida, with a theme of Breakthrough ’13. The event will feature more than 60 sessions covering best practices, case studies and solutions about print, Web, social media and mobile as well as presentations from 34 industry vendors. $1,795

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The BCPIA presents certified G7 Experts Ernst Vegt, John Rodgers and Guy DuHamel in a discussion titled G7 in the Real World. The seminar, presented in Burnaby, will focus on actual G7 experiences “from the trenches” while outlining how colour management impacts a printer’s bottom line. $70

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RyeTAGA Innovation welve students from Ryerson University’s Graphic Communications Management (GCM) program in early February travelled to Portland, Oregon, to participate in the 65th annual conference hosted by the Technical Association of the Graphic Arts (TAGA). Accompanied by professor Dr. Martin Habekost, the group of enterprising students, collectively working within the RyeTAGA initiative, presented their technical journal featuring four research topics: Colour consistency in flexographic substrates and inks, reproduction of spot colours on

varying substrates, potential impact of ink metering rollers on anilox, and the viability of latex inks in packaging. PrintAction magazine asked the RyeTAGA team to describe the development of their journal, which TAGA judges awarded for Best Publication Design, and the hundreds of hours they dedicated to its production. (Please see Dr. Habekost’s TAGA report on page 14, where he discusses four key technical presentations from the conference.)

This year, RyeTAGA focused on promotion through social media channels like the dedicated RyeTAGA Website, Twitter (@RyeTAGA) and Facebook (facebook.com/RyeTAGA). In order to support our journal production efforts, RyeTAGA put together a promotional swatch-book calendar, as well as hosting and participating in many different events. Some of these events included: pub night fundraisers, holiday events and charitable initiatives like Toronto’s CIBC Run for the Cure. These events allowed our student chapter to take advantage of invaluable support, expertise and learning opportunities available to us from students, faculty, and industry.

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TAGA CONFERENCE

– Sommer Johnson, Marketing Director, and Alina Esmatyar, Fundraising Director

TAGA’s 65th Annual Technical Conference was the pinnacle of our year as a RyeTAGA team. Everything we have been working on since last April came together in Portland, Oregon. As a group of 12 students, we travelled together from Toronto to arrive in Portland on February 2. Our treasured journals traveled alongside us in cardboard boxes, marked FRAGILE, to present to the TAGA judges, student chapters, and TAGA members. Portland is a beautiful city with many unique qualities, and was a great location for our technical conference. Professionals and industry members presented research on topics such as colour, print processes, packaging, paper, ink and print evaluation. The conference ended February 6 and we brought home with us the award for Best Publication Design. With this educational experience now past, we have a greater respect for the graphic arts industry and look forward to contributing to the field in our future.

Members from the RyeTAGA team in Portland, Oregon at the 65th Annual TAGA Conference.

– Steph Murray, Finance Director

TOURING NORPAC On our final day of the TAGA conference we were given the opportunity to attend a plant tour at the North Pacific Paper Corporation (NORPAC) in Longview, Washington. Several RyeTAGA members joined in and learned how the plant produces newsprint, uncoated printing and publishing papers. We learned that NORPAC’s three paper machines use pulp consisting of residual wood chips received from sawmills and recycled newspapers. We started our tour with the newest paper machine at the headbox where the pulp slurry is sprayed onto screens. As we walked along the process, we were able to see the paper dry and roll up onto a reel weighing approximately 30 tonnes. The paper is then slit into smaller roles and transported by conveyors to be wrapped. To bring the tour to a close we saw the remaining two machines and a paper machine operator’s office. – Emily House, General Member

THE2013 JOURNAL

Our journal was designed as a 10 x 8-inch landscape book and perfect bound on the short edge at RP Graphics, using a Heidelberg Quickbinder. This allowed the spreads to have larger margins and easier readability, which resulted in greater tolerances for printing, folding and binding. The content pages of the journal were printed in-house using Ryerson’s Xerox Docucolor 7000 press – around 15 hours of press time. The 4-page signatures were folded on our Stahl folder for binding. A challenging aspect during this stage of production was to overcome low humidity and high static when folding due to the toner printing process, including paper jams and difficulty in jogging.

Text pages: Williamsburg 70lb offset smooth Cover: Neenah Paper 80lb cover: Red Eggshell finish Binder’s board: Zebra Paper converters 100 pt binders’ board black

– Alyzza Szeto, Production and Editorial Director

RYETAGA SPONSORS Without the support of our industry sponsors, the production of this journal would not have been possible. The following organizations played a large part in the success of yeTAGA and we are continuously grateful to them: • The Craftsmen’s Club of Toronto, • Fujifilm Canada, • Ryerson University (GCM), • P-FACS, • RP Graphics Group, • PNH Solutions, • Kallima Paper, • Don Black Linecasting, and • Emotional Photons. RyeTAGA is always looking for new sponsors to connect with. Our sponsors provide us with financial support as well as production capabilities. If your company is interested please do not hesitate to contact us through www.RyeTAGA.com.

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RYETAGA RESEARCH TOPICS FOR 2013

– Trung Nguyen and Mark Brejnik, Co-Presidents

Topic 1: Colour consistency between flexographic substrates and inks Many companies use brand recognition through a variety of different marketing materials such as the metal cans a soda is held in, the paperboard packaging, the plastic labels that wrap around bottles, or in-store displays, just to name a few. It is imperative that all colours used to identify the company or products are consistent on all printed materials from brochures to product labels. However, not all substrates reproduce colour the same way. Likewise, the method used to achieve proper colour varies depending on the substrate being used. This test determines the ways in which the printing industry maintains colour consistency across a wide variety of unique substrates.

Topic 2: Proof-a-cola Consistent branding and brand recognition is important for any company, locally or globally. Coke, the subject of our research project, is one of the most renowned brands in the world, relying heavily on its infamous red colour to be recognized amongst numerous competitors. From boxes to bottles to cans, “Coke Red” is always consistent as Coca-Cola invests millions of dollars to build and sustain their brand. To this point, inconsistency can be very costly for the company, both financially and in the marketplace. Through testing we can deduct which substrates are the most difficult and which are the most accurate when reproducing colour. By using Coca-Cola Red, this test compares the consistency of their brands not only across varying substrates, but across geographical borders as well.

Topic 3: Are latex inks ready for the packaging industry? This test identifies the strengths and weaknesses of latex ink in a number of diverse situations. Along with testing the performance of latex inks, we are testing how well Xerox and HP printed samples will perform. In order to reach a conclusive decision on how well the latex inks have bonded to the substrate, we must compare the results to other methods of printing. The properties that have been measured are: rub resistance, how well the ink bonds to the substrate and water resistance. By comparing the results, we are able to make a decision on whether or not latex inks have a place in the packaging industry.

Topic 4: Apex’s GTT Ink Metering Rollers Anilox rollers play an integral part in the quality of a printed image. They are designed to control the volume of ink that is transferred from the fountain roller to the plate during flexographic printing. This test was conducted to determine whether a printed output on a narrow-web Comco Cadet flexographic press, when using channeled Genetic Transfer Technology (GTT) ink metering rollers, would result in reduced dot gain in detailed halftones and increased solid densities. The results are compared to a printed output using traditional 60º hexagonal cell anilox rollers. Related tests may include run-length (roller longevity), ink volume savings, solvent volume savings and cleanup time.

MARCH 2013 • PRINTACTION • 11

VICTORIA GAITSKELL

Newborn Print Owners Three-month-old National Print Owners Association holds sold-out conference in April n January 2, 2013, over 30,000 owners of small independent commercial printing companies, mostly in the United States, received an e-mail inviting them to join a brand new trade association, the National Print Owners Association (NPOA) Inc. The e-mail explained that over the preceding four months, 19 printers like themselves had founded NPOA to meet their own business needs, after many of them had become frustrated by the failure of existing associations to understand and serve their sector of the industry. Often referred to as quick printers in the past, this large subgroup consists of companies with annual sales roughly in the range of $500,000 to $3 million. The e-mail added that not only had NPOA already set up a Website that was growing its content almost daily and already acquired numerous members since its offcial introduction on December 21, 2012 on the popular PrintOwners list server. The new association has also already scheduled its first Owner’s Conference in New Orleans from April 19 to 21, 2013. Besides being impressed by such quick work in setting up the NPOA, I was curious to know more for several reasons. One primary reason is that, from 1999 to 2004, I managed the Ontario Association of Quick Printers (OAQP), the Canadian chapter of the U.S.based National Association of Quick Printers (NAQP, founded 1975). The OAQP seems to have lapsed into complete inactivity since my departure and the NAQP responded to the general decline in association memberships over the past two decades by merging in 2005 with the National Association for Printing Leadership (NAPL), a larger U.S. trade association for management education and research. This history reinforces a second reason for my curiosity: NPOA was founded at a stage when the goal of most trade associations is not independent growth but consolidation. Two further cases in point are the 2012 merger of the Canadian Printing Industries Sector Council (CPISC) with the Canadian Printing Industries Association (CPIA), and the recently discontinued merger talks between NAPL and Printing Industries of America (PIA). Of course the current size and structure of the PIA is the result of an earlier merger with

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Jace Prejean

John Henry

the Graphic Arts Technical Foundation in 1999. A third reason for my curiosity is that, although the founding of NPOA raised considerable controversy in the United States’ trade press, thus far media interviews with the founders about their motives seem to be in short supply. So with many questions begging to be answered, I spoke separately to three of NPOA’s most-active founders to uncover the reasons and events behind NPOA’s sudden rise. They are: Jace Prejean, Owner of Bayou Printing & Graphics in Houma, Louisiana, who is the new association’s President; John Henry, Owner of Mitchell Printing & Mailing in Oswego, New York, NPOA’s Treasurer; and Scott Cappel, Owner of Sorrento Mesa Printing in San Diego, California, one of NPOA’s three Conference Co-chairs, who also manages one of NPOA’s communications forums, an open LinkedIn discussion group that attracted 320 members in its first six weeks of operation. Successful printers

At age 12, Prejean started sweeping floors at a printing company and has never left the business. Straight out of high school, he went to work for a printing company for nine years, then in 1983 he opened Bayou Printing & Graphics Inc. with one small offset Chief 17 press in a 24 x 30-foot building in his backyard. From there his business has gradually expanded into a little bit of everything, including direct mail and wide format. (He also currently owns Dooley’s Neighborhood Bar in Houma, an hour outside New Orleans.) Henry’s grandfather, Wier (W.P.) Mitchell, started Mitchell Printing as a letterpress operation in 1930. Henry has worked there since his student days at Rochester Institute of Technology. The business now employs nine people, including Henry and his wife, doing general commercial printing and mailing, with emphasis on certain niches, including health care, hospitals, and colleges. Five years ago, Henry merged Mitchell’s Speedway Press into his company after purchasing it from the Caruso brothers, who besides being printers were owners of Oswego’s automobile racetrack and printed for racetracks around the country. Speedway now generates about a third of Henry’s profits, and he travels the racing circuit with his son and staff mem-

Scott Cappel

bers on weekends between March and October. During university, Cappel ran presses and sold printing until he graduated with a Bachelors degree in chemistry. He worked in the science field for three years, then started Sorrento Mesa Printing in partnership with a printing colleague, whom he bought out six months later. His company now consists of five highly seasoned staff, an advanced workflow-management-integration system, and colour-managed toner and offset production. They do B2B work for a carefully selected clientele of corporations based mostly in the San Diego area, with a number of these accounts served nationally, many in biotechnology and biomedical fields. “Niche business is where the opportunities for printing companies are these days, and the Internet has enabled us to develop corporate-branded portals that transformed us from a vendor into a strategic extension of our clients’ operation,” says Cappel. From at least the 1990s until the NAPL/NAQP merger, Prejean, Henry, and Cappel were all active members and committee and/or board members of NAQP. Additionally, through NAQP’s annual owners’ conferences and various dedicated list servers they met and forged close-knit friendships with many other small business owners from whose number NPOA’s 19 founders emerged. Regardless of whether or not they have maintained their memberships in NAPL/NAQP, all 19 founders maintain frequent contact and mutual support for each other via phone, e-mail, list servers, and social media. “Almost to a person, NPOA’s founders all very successful printers, tested by time, with many years and changes under our belt. It’s a savvy bunch,” says Cappel. “Nineteen busy people wouldn’t be wasting time on NPOA if we didn’t think there was value in it.” A small get-together

Prejean describes how NPOA started with his original suggestion to hold a small, casual gathering: “Around last September I called John Henry and said, ‘Why don’t we get together in the spring in New Orleans with maybe half a dozen of our other good friends with successful shops to exchange ideas and share some social Continued on page 36

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Highlights from the 65th annual Technical Association of the Graphic Arts conference

Prototype of a flexo printed LED light from Nth degree. Through an additional yellow layer the colour of the light will change to white.

he Technical Association of the Graphic Arts (TAGA) celebrated its 65th anniversary in Portland, Oregon, the site of its annual conference from February 3 to 6. The conference, arguably North America’s most important event focusing on technical issues in printing, traditionally opens with four keynote presentations. This year, TAGA brought in two researchers and two top industry speakers who captivated the audience. More than anything, these four speakers, including Dr. Martin Schmitt-Leven from Heidelberg, Professor Fritz Bircher from the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Gilad Tzori from Landa Digital Printing, and Dr. Bill Ray of Nth degree technologies, illustrated that print is alive and well from a technological perspective. The four speakers showed there is still a great deal of innovation being pushed into the printing industry.

Capacitive inks

Dr. Martin Schmitt-Leven from Heidelberg, Germany, presented the first keynote of the TAGA conference, focusing on new applications for print. He spoke about offset printing, but also a combination of offset printing and other print processes. This can happen in-line, for example, with a combination of flexo and offset print units. Together with in-line cold foiling, many special effects can be applied to paper with just one pass through the press. Schmitt-Leven was also responsible for the innovation gallery that Heidelberg showcased this past May at the drupa 2012 tradeshow in Germany. Examples of effect-varnishing and various coating techniques were shown at drupa and were also presented to the conference attendees. Raised coating, printed on an offset press, was shown as a possibility to achieve a more appealing printed product. An example of capacitive ink was demonstrated, which was able to interact with an iPad or iPhone. 14 • PRINTACTION • MARCH 2013

How does this work? The capacitive ink is printed onto a piece of cardboard, which is later cut to the size of a business card. A special app (touchcode) needs to be loaded on the device, so it can read the interactive printed ID card. Another example shown was a film-based lighting element. The lighting can be achieved either by electroluminescence or printed OLED (organic LEDs). These elements can be applied to folding cartons for example. The main point from the presenter is that print can be used for so many more applications, and that modern printing machines can be profitable even for short runs. More information about these topics can be found online within Heidelberg’s press lounge. Future inkjet

The second keynote presentation came from by Professor Fritz Bircher of the Printing Competence Center at the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Fribourg. His topic concentrated on printing beyond the standard inkjet applications. Bircher opened his keynote by pointing out how inkjet technology is getting faster and faster and that it will reach offset quality sooner than expected. One of the excellent developments is the Stream inkjet technology used in Kodak Prosper presses. With inkjet we will go from print-on-demand to produce-on-demand, Bircher explained, which will see an individualization of products. Inkjet can and will be used for dispensing of materials in the life science area, such as inkjetting skin and skin growth factors for burn victims. Professor Bircher said that ceramic printing with inkjet has a market share of 50 percent, while textile printing with inkjet technology holds a five percent share and printed electronics is still in its infancy. Bircher also spoke about laser sonic printing, which allows for nozzle-free inkjet printing and also the inkjetting of larger particles and of materials with a higher

viscosity. He showed examples of printing on the street with a latex type material. Two models of street printers were shown in pictures and video. The second model was a GPS controlled system that could help decorate a parking lot with much human intervention. Professor Bircher also spoke about the inflight mixing of two components that have been inkjetted, much in the way that two separate components of epoxy glue are jetted at each other in order for both droplets to mix and form the active glue. Research is being conducted to find out what is the optimal angle to shoot these droplets at each other to achieve proper mixing. Inkjet type printing is possible with material having a temperature of around 1,400°C. This technology is used to jet gold or silver and, therefore, can produce highly conductive tracks. The most unusual jetting technology presented by Bircher was used to jet grains of flower seeds. Since seeds do not have a uniform size and shape, the maximum particle size of 20 microns limited the type of flower seeds that could be used. The FlowerJet, as professor Bircher called this technology, was used to create an image on a meadow, that will develop after flowers start growing and bloom. Landa reproduction

The third keynote was provided by Gilad Tzori of Landa Digital Printing. Conference attendees who did not attend drupa 2012 received an overview of how the company’s nanography printing process differs from conventional inkjet printing technologies. This includes how nanography uses inkjet-type water-based inks, but yet the ink does not soak the paper with water so the sheet does not come out wavy at the end of the press. Many have experienced this wavy-sheet problem when they print a sheet of paper with heavy coverage on their home or office inkjet printer. The nanography Continued on page 40

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THE ORIGINS OF THE IRON INDEX

trace back to the late-1990s when PrintAction magazine began tracking the arrival of computer-to-plate (CTP) systems in Canada. Into the first half of the new millennium, however, a short annual listing of CTP installations at bleeding-edge printers and prepress houses began to expand exponentially as the Canadian industry accepted the pending demise of film-based workflows. CTP became a necessary investment for any commercial printing company running sheetfed- or web-offset presses. It was critical to continue tracking front-end investment, including plate usage and imaging software, but PrintAction decided to evolve its annual listing to instead focus on the offset iron on the floor of these companies – big and small – that form the heart of Canadian printing.

Today’s Iron Index is comprised of around 240 Canadian printers rooted in offset production, which also allows PrintAction to follow the emergence of alternative production processes. In 2004, we began tracking their investment in toner and inkjet systems – often jointly referred to as digital. In 2007, PrintAction then asked its Iron Index network to estimate their production ratio of offset to toner to inkjet, which details dramatic shifts in the Canadian printing marketplace. All of the printers who participated in the 2013 Iron Index survey will receive a comprehensive report, including production ratios, press specifics and an in-depth analysis of literally thousands of data points that have been collected for more than a decade.

Computer-to-plate Plates

Offset Presses Agfa ABDick

Adast

Goss

KBA

Fujifilm

Gerber Heidelberg IBF

Hamada Hantscho Harris

Komori manroland Miehle

Mitsubishi Presstek Roland

Fujifilm Heidelberg

Agfa

Kodak Heidelberg

CSI

Akiyama Dauphin

ECRM Didde

basysPrint

Sakurai

Timson

Toko

Kodak

Titan

Toray

Presstek Screen Presstek

Miller

Ryobi

Ipagsa

Inkjet Devices Toner Presses

Solna

Stevens

Tensor

Agfa

Variquik Venturi

Zenith

Buskro

Canon Domino Epson Canon

Ikon

Kodak

Konica Minolta

MGI

Océ

Ricoh

Xerox

Xante

Zirkon Fujifilm

Inca

Kodak Lambda

Mimaki Mutoh Roland Videojet

Zund Toshiba Xeikon

Management Information Systems Front-end Software Accura

Avanti Covalent

EFI

Agfa ePace

Globe Graphisoft Tek

Fujifilm EskoArtwork

Intraprint

Global Kodak Heidelberg Graphics Job Pro Kodak Precision Central

Print MIS

Printer’s Plan

Rampage Screen Print Point

PTI

Certifications Ancient Forest Friendly

Solarsoft Streamline

Xitron

Canada Post Expert

G7 Master Printer Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification

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Carbon Zero

Forest Stewardship Council

EcoLogo

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Napim

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Number of employees represented on this year’s Iron Index* of 240 companies

14K+

Total number of toner production presses listed on the Iron Index in 2006, when PrintAction first began tracking this category

Number of Iron Index printers who are 100% offset

47 Number of printers who estimated their toner-based production to be at least 10% of overall mix in 2007

Total number of offset presses represented

Number of printers founded 50 years or more ago

Number of Iron Index printers estimating their inkjet production to be at least 5% of their overall production mix

Printing Company Milestones for 2013

50 Years Weller Publishing 40 Years City Printers; Newcastle Printing; Tri-Tech Canada

Number of printers producing at least 20% of their work mix with toner presses

30 Years Ellis Group; Moveable; RP Graphics; Stuart Packaging

Total number of flatbed inkjet systems on the Iron Index in 2006

100 Years Curtis-JK Printing 75 Years Blyth Printing; Commercial Print-Craft; Waterloo Printing

Number of Heidelberg shops, based on offset presses (majority), software, CTP and plate

27 63

134

Number of printers producing at least 10% with toner in 2013

27%

331

691

Percentage of printers who produce work using a combination of offset, toner and inkjet

Number of toner production presses for 2013

More than 30% on toner

Flatbed inkjet systems on the Iron Index in 2013

Number of companies operating both web and sheetfed offset presses

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Company, City, Year Founded

No. of Employees

Offset (up to 4 presses)

Electro

Inkjet

Offset:Electro: Plate Inkjet Ratio

CTP Front- MIS end

Revenue (Millions)

MARITIMES 150

100:0:0

Allen Print, Dartmouth, 1944

100:0:0

Bounty Print, Halifax, 1978

25 12

65:25:10

Newcastle Printing, Miramichi, 1973

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

100:0:0

Bro-Moc Print, Dartmouth, 1966 City Printers, Sydney, 1973 Kenmac Print, Dartmouth, 1966

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

Advocate Printing, Pictou, 1891

1.2

70:30:0

60:40:0

100:0:0

Taylor Printing Group, Fredericton, 2005

90:10:0

The Printer, Halifax, 1987

80:20:0

QUEBEC

Aupel Printing, Gatineau, 1985

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

Au Point Repotech, Anjou, 1985

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

Accent Impression, St. Laurent

88:10:2

80:20:0

40:40:20

Groupe Produlith, Montreal, 1981

100:0:0

Hebdo Litho, St. Leonard, 1991

100:0:0

BL Litho, Laval, 1957 Groupe Laurier, Montreal, 1985

Hueneye.com, Montreal, 2001 Impart Litho, Victoriaville, 1866 Impressions De Beauce, Beauceville, 1986 Imprimerie Contact, Montreal, 1978

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

Imprimerie Vincent, Hull, 1980

Imprimerie Ltd., Montreal Imprimerie Maska, St. Hyacinthe, 1971

E E E E

100:0:0

7.5

90:10:0 98:0:2 100:0:0 85:15:0

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

E E E E

78:20:2

190

Kayjon Graphiques, St. Laurent, 1979

90:10:0

65:20:15

50:50:0

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18.0

80:20:0

J.B. Deschamps, Quebec City, 1926

Le Groupe Chagui, Laval, 1980

1.8

100:0:0

Intra Media, Datamark Systems, Boucherville, 1915 98

6.0

80:20:0

5.0

90:0:10

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

Imprimerie Pub Cité, Delson, 1999

Imprimerie L’Empreinte, St. Laurent, 1986

Kingsweb

Imprimerie F.L. Chicoine, St.Germain, 1986 40 Imprimerie For, St. Hubert, 1986

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

70:30:0

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

5.5

95:5:0

26.0

Certification (up to 3)

Company, City, Year Founded

No. of Employees

Offset (up to 4 presses)

Electro

Inkjet

Offset:Electro: Plate Inkjet Ratio

CTP Front- MIS end

Revenue (Millions)

Certification (up to 3)

QUEBEC continued

Litho Milles Iles, Terrebonne, 1977

100

Litho Quebec JGB, Point Claire, 1971

Litho Rosemont, Montreal, 1966 Marquis, Montmagny, 1937

E E

90:9:1

E E E E

90:5:5

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

Litho Chic, Quebec City, 1987

85:14:1

130

90:10:0

Martineau Communication, Sherbrooke, 1980 24

100:0:0

Norecob Printers, St. Jules, 2006

140

100:0:0

Offset Beauce, St. Marie, 1978

100:0:0

Paragraph, St. Laurent, 1989

105

Pazazz Printing, Montreal, 1992

PDI Group, Kirkland, 1922

250

Productions Alter Ego, Laval, 1989

99:0:1

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

Nap-Art, Montreal

60:35:5

15.7

85:10:5 87:13:0

E E

80:0:20

Rocktenn, St. Marie

175

100:0:0

Stuart Packaging, Montreal, 1983

100

100:0:0

1.5

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Company, City, Year Founded

No. of Employees

Offset (up to 4 presses)

Electro

Inkjet

Offset:Electro: Plate Inkjet Ratio

CTP Front- MIS end

Revenue (Millions)

Certification (up to 3)

ONTARIO A+V Digital & Offset, Markham, 2009

Adorn Graphics, Toronto, 2004

AIIM Group, Aurora, 1990 Alex Wilson Coldstream, Dryden, 1940 Allan Graphics, Kingston, 1976

Annan & Sons, Toronto, 1978

Annex Publishing & Printing, Simcoe

100

APD Printing, Milton, 2001

Beatty Printing, North Bay, 1959

96:3:1

10.0

40:60:0

18.0

90:10:0 100:0:0 90:10:0

E E

75:25:0 100:0:0

80:20:0 70:30:0

E E

60 8

Bell Wyck Packaging, Owen Sound, 1916 70

100:0:0 70:10:20 100:0:0

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90:10:0

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

Ampa Printing, Markham, 1988

Battlefield Graphics, Burlington, 1964

E E E

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

60:35:5

100:0:0

Altona Graphics, Markham, 1982

Aulward Graphics, Hamilton, 1967

20:80:0

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

Advertek, Vaughan, 1996

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

Advance Printing, Paris, 1976

E E E

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Company, City, Year Founded

No. of Employees

Offset (up to 4 presses)

Electro

Inkjet

Offset:Electro: Plate Inkjet Ratio

CTP Front- MIS end

Revenue (Millions)

ONTARIO continued Beresford Box, Waterloo, 1964

30:60:10

Boehmer Box, Kitchener, 1874

310

95:0:5

BOSS Logo, Markham, 1995

100:0:0

C.J. Graphics, Toronto, 1981

140

70:30:0

25.0

Canpak Trade Print, Richmond Hill, 1997

80:20:0

1.1

Blyth Printing, Blyth, 1938

CanWeb Printing, Grimsby, 1991

Capital Colour Graphics, London, 1994

Captain Printworks, Toronto, 1986

CCL Label, Etobicoke, 1951

160 10 8

E E

70:20:10 75:25:0

80:20:0

E E

100:0:0

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

Century Printing, Mississauga, 1989

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

CCT Printing, Scarborough, 1998

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

100:0:0

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

130

100:0:0

Cober Evolving Solutions, Kitchener, 1916 110

50:40:10

Comda, Toronto, 1980

100:0:0

Commercial Press & Design, Peterborough, 1932

50 9

Commercial Print-Craft, Woodstock, 1938 30

Creative Path, Richmond Hill, 1995

Curtis-JK Printing, Windsor, 1913 Custom Printers, Renfrew, 1972

60:35:5 100:0:0

10.0

80:20:0

70:30:0

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

Continental Press, Concord, 1974

E E

85:15:0

60:30:10

90:10:0

Eclipse Imaging, Burlington, 1954

50:0:50

17.0

Ellis Group, Pickering, 1983

120

100:0:0

50.0

EverReddy Packaging, Scarborough, 1953 70

100:0:0

David Thomas Printing, Whitby, 1974 Delta Printing, Ottawa

Gilmore Printing, Ottawa, 1995 Glenparr Trade Litho, Scarborough, 1991 Graphic Dimensions, Mississauga, 1990

45 60

Graphic Services, Guelph, 1985

H&E Copy, Toronto, 1992

26 • PRINTACTION • MARCH 2013

E E E

100:0:0

E E E E E

95:0:5

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

General Printers, Oshawa, 1945

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

Flash Reproductions, Etobicoke, 1969

2.2

80:20:0

80:10:10 75:20:5 80:20:0

3.0

Certification (up to 3)

Company, City, Year Founded

No. of Employees

Offset (up to 4 presses)

Electro

Inkjet

Offset:Electro: Plate Inkjet Ratio

CTP Front- MIS end

Revenue (Millions)

Certification (up to 3)

ONTARIO continued

Henderson Printing, Brockville, 1976

Highland Printcraft, Cambridge, 1948

Hub Creative Group, 1995 Huron Web, Wyoming, 1992 Imageworks Print, Richmond Hill, 1994

80:20:0

E E

60:40:0

30:40:30

E E

70:30:0 80:19:1

Imprimerie Plantagenet, Plantagenet, 1978 12

80:20:0

Intak Printing, Scarborough

JF Moore Lithographers, Scarborough, 1985

100:0:0

99:1:0

50:50:0

KT Web Printing & Bindery, Toronto, 1999

100:0:0

Lakehead Printing, Thunder Bay, 1971

Laser Reproductions, Toronto, 1986

E E E

Lowe-Martin Group, Mississauga

100

Lowe-Martin Group, Ottawa, 1908

475

Maracle Press, Oshawa, 1920

65:30:5 70:25:5 70:10:20

100:0:0

E E

85:13:2 95:5:0

E E

100:0:0

Media Vision, Toronto, 1995

90:0:10

MM&T (Cenveo), Mississauga, 1956

200

100:0:0

Motion Creative Printing, Carleton Place

90:10:0

68:27:5

MPI Print, Concord, 2000

100

Norampac (Cascades), Mississauga

114

28 • PRINTACTION • MARCH 2013

E E E

90:10:0

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

McLaren Press, Gravenhurst, 1984

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

MPH Graphics, Markham

75:20:5

Marquardt Printing, Ottawa, 1948

Moveable, Toronto, 1983

9.0

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

Lightning Graphics, Scarborough, 1991 20

22.0

70:20:10 70:30:0

2.0

60:40:0

Kempenfelt Graphics Group, Barrie, 1986 55

Lithorock Printing, Scarborough, 1998

Bard

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

James Printing & Sings, Bowmanville

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

Ironstone Media, Pickering, 1961

1.0

90:10:0

Impressions Printing, St. Thomas, 1969 27

In-House Printing, Toronto, 1992

2.0

90:10:0

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

Harmony Printing, Toronto, 1964

75:15:10 85:15:0 100:0:0

11.5

60.0

Company, City, Year Founded

No. of Employees

Offset (up to 4 presses)

Electro

Inkjet

Offset:Electro: Plate Inkjet Ratio

CTP Front- MIS end

Revenue (Millions)

Certification (up to 3)

ONTARIO continued

P-Tech Print, Concord, 2004

Parfield Printing, Markham

Parker Pad & Printing, Toronto, 1946

70:30:0

1.5

75:20:5 70:25:5

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

Nova Printing, Mississauga, 1994

75:15:10

Patient News Publishing, Haliburton, 1993 70

75:25:0

Peel Graphics, Brampton, 1933

80:10:10

60:30:10

1.7

83:15:2

2.0

Peninsula Press, St. Catharines

Pinnacle Litho, Stoney Creek, 1996

PointOne Graphics, Etobicoke, 1990

150

100:0:0

Premier Impressions, Grimsby, 1996

75:25:0

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

Pronto Reproductions, Toronto, 1984 Rayment & Collins, Markham, 1989

50:50:0

Ricter Web Printing, Brantford, 1975

100

100:0:0

Rose Printing, Orillia, 1992

70:30:0

100

60:20:20

Senton Printing & Packaging, London, 1982 95

100:0:0

Shield Media Group, Belleville, 1995

95:5:0

PressGroup, Richmond Hill, 1990 Print Preview, Toronto, 1999 Pristine Printing, Toronto, 1980 Prodigy Graphics Group, Brampton

60:0:40 60:30:10

E E

1.5

33:33:33 100:0:0

60:30:10

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

RP Graphics, Mississauga, 1983

Shorewood Packaging, Scarborough, 1982 330 Simpson Screen Print, Bloomingdale, 1967 60

30:5:5

Sina Printing, Markham, 1996

94:5:1

Sun Printing, Toronto, 1976

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

100:0:0

Swan Printing & Lithograph, Toronto, 1985

The Arthur Press, Downsview, 1978

P Micro Print

60.0

Smart Lazer Grafix (SLG), Brampton 7

Spectracolor Trade Printing, Toronto, 1969 95 St. Joseph Documents, Ottawa, 1997

60:20:20

238

St. Joseph Print Campus, Concord, 1956 500

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Kingsweb

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

SNR Printing, Mississauga, 2004

10.0

60:35:5

E E E E

80:15:5 97:3:0 98:2:0 100:0:0

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Company, City, Year Founded

No. of Employees

Offset (up to 4 presses)

Electro

Inkjet

Offset:Electro: Plate Inkjet Ratio

CTP Front- MIS end

Revenue (Millions)

Certification (up to 3)

ONTARIO continued

The Printing Klub, Mississauga, 2011

The Vincent Press, Peterborough, 1965

80:20:0

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

The Incredible Printing Co., Toronto, 1975

90:10:0

Thistle Printing, Toronto, 1931

100

100:0:0

TI Group, Toronto

120

90:10:0

Topknotch Printing, Mississauga, 2001

90:10:0

1,000

100:0:0

Tower Litho, Scarborough, 1971

85:15:0

Trade Secret Printing, Etobicoke, 2000

120

85:15:0

Tri-Co Group Printing, Gloucester, 1980 110

93:6:1

VistaPrint North America, Windsor Visual Concepts, Mississauga, 2003

W.D. Keeling Printers, Owen Sound, 1968

Warren’s Waterless, Toronto

Tri-Tech Canada, Pickering, 1973 Twin City Dwyer, Kitchener, 1968

99:1:0 90:10:0

80:15:5

E E E

90:10:0

100:0:0

West Star/Star Web Printing, Toronto, 1983 150

100:0:0

Winchester Print, Winchester, 1981 Wizbot, Oakville, 1993

11 13

E E

14001

80:20:0

Williamsburg Printing, Kitchener, 2012

2.0

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

Weller Publishing, Etobicoke, 1963

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

Waterloo Printing, Waterloo, 1938

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

Torstar Printing Group, Toronto, 1981

70:20:10

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

Toronto Trade Printers, Markham

E E

5.5

4.0

85:12:3 75:25:0

MANITOBA City Press, Winnipeg, 1932

CP Printing, Winnipeg, 1964

550

Leech Printing, Brandon, 1927

Premier Printing, Winnipeg, 1962 Rinella Printers (bw Imaging), Winnipeg, 1919

80:10:10 92:8:0

90:10:0

70:25:5

80:15:5

Sterling Press & Packaging, Selkirk, 1989 25 32 • PRINTACTION • MARCH 2013

65:30:5

Friesens, Altona, 1907

70:30:0

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

Esdale Printing, Winnipeg, 1935

100:0:0

9001

Company, City, Year Founded

No. of Employees

Offset (up to 4 presses)

Electro

Inkjet

Offset:Electro: Plate Inkjet Ratio

CTP Front- MIS end

Revenue (Millions)

Certification (up to 3)

SASKATCHEWAN

Mister Print (PrintWest), Saskatoon, 1979

100:0:0

75:20:5

Print Leader

3.0

40:60:0

2.5

PrintWest Communications, Regina, 1992 150

100:0:0

20.0

Ultra Print Services, North Battleford, 1990

80:15:5

1.9

85:15:0

Western Litho Printers, Regina, 1964

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

Impact Printers, Regina, 1986

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

Houghton-Boston, Saskatoon, 1946

ALBERTA

Apache Superior Printing, Calgary, 1964

80:20:0

55:10:35

10.0

90:5:5

7.4

100:0:0

Capital Printing and Forms, Edmonton, 1988 Central Web, Calgary, 1967 Central Web, Edmonton, 1967

Emerson Clarke Printing, Calgary, 1977

Fletcher Printing, Red Deer, 1930

Graphcom Printers, Lethbridge, 1985 High Speed Printing, Edmonton, 1979 Holmes Printing, Medicine Hat, 1929 ION Print Solutions, Edmonton, 2008 Kallen Printing, Calgary, 1986

76:12:12

E E

75:25:0

5.0 3.3

90:10:0

99:1:0

105

Franklin

30:50:20

75:25:0

McCallum Printing, Edmonton, 2003

5.1

45:50:5

1.5

75:25:0

McAra, Calgary, 1909

0.9

E 85:12:3

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

Meridian Booster, Lloydminster

E E

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

Elite Lithographers, Edmonton, 1979

60:30:10

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

Burke Group, Edmonton, 1902

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

Acorn Graphics, Calgary, 1964

19.5

100:0:0

70:30:0

80:7:13

3.1

80:15:5

2.4

Printworks, Edmonton, 1984

130

100:0:0

Priority Printing, Edmonton, 1986

nexGen Grafix, Edmonton, 1977 Oil City Press, Calgary, 1953 Printing Place Print & Design, Red Deer, 1985

95:0:5

5.0

80:20:0

1.0

BRITISH COLUMBIA A & F Printing, Vancouver, 1954

Best Color Press, Vancouver, 1989

Classic Printing, Vancouver, 1985

E E

CPBC

99:1:0 100:0:0

5.0 MARCH 2013 • PRINTACTION • 33

No. of Employees

Company, City, Year Founded

Offset (up to 4 presses)

Electro

Inkjet

Offset:Electro: Plate Inkjet Ratio

CTP Front- MIS end

Revenue (Millions)

Certification (up to 3)

BRITISH COLUMBIA continued

Contact Printing, Vancouver, 1981

Digital Direct Printing, Victoria, 2000

80:20:0

80:18:2

90:2:8

40:60:0

Hemlock Printers, Burnaby, 1968

170

88:10:2

Marine Printers, Vancouver, 1931

MET Fine Printers, Vancouver, 1977

Mitchell Press, Burnaby, 1928

Van Press Printers, Burnaby

100:0:0

Wayside Printers, Vernon, 1923

74:24:2

Western Printers, Burnaby, 1940

95:5:0

Fraser Valley Custom Printers, Chilliwack, 1979 Generation Printing, Vancouver, 1998 Glenmore Printing, Richmond, 1981

60:40:0

100:0:0

80:20:0

83:15:2

1.6

E E

16 24

15.2

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

Nathan Printing Services, Burnaby, 1985 15

Thunderbird Press, Richmond, 1968

1.4

90:5:5

Planet Press, Burnaby, 2006

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

Hall Printing, Trail, 1920

ENHANCED VERSION ONLY

Contac Services, Delta, 1978

Carbon Neutral

100:0:0 100:0:0

2.0

100:0:0

3.0

82:17:1

3.4

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networking time?’ One guy called another guy and before we knew it, over 20 owners said they wanted to come.” Participants then suggested the possibilities of guest speakers or even creating a new, legally constituted trade association. To resolve their different ideas into a mutually agreeable action plan, they shared a 2-hour conference call in late October, using an objective volunteer facilitator to help them reach consensus. By December the group had enlisted John Stewart of QP Consulting Inc. (West Melbourne, Florida) to serve as temporary Acting Executive Director of the fledgling association. Stewart is a founding NAQP member, known for his blunt speaking style and the training sessions and statistical reports he provided for decades for NAQP. Henry explains that, although as many as 30 printers helped originate NPOA, some were John C. Stewart unwilling to contribute start-up funds. The 19 who, along with Stewart, gave equal amounts towards the $5,000 or $6,000 needed to legalize the association became its official founders. “Everyone sent in their creditcard information and Pay-Tel cheques, but we couldn’t cash them until an attorney incorporated the association, so [Stewart] self-funded the operation until then.” Filling a vacuum

I questioned all three founders about the introduction to NPOA’s home page that reads: “NPOA offers a viable alternative to printers (both independents and franchisees) who are currently members of other trade associations, but are dissatisfied with the return on their investment. This new association also seeks to attract many other printers who have chosen not to join any association because none have appeared, so far, to satisfy their needs.” Henry attests that the rising costs of participating in other associations motivated NPOA to keep its dues and other pricing modest enough that owners of even the smallest companies can afford them. He recalls: “As NAPL/NAQP’s prices, conference fees, and membership dues went up, a few members of NAQP’s Advisory Board requested information on the association’s pay levels of its top staff. They were told they had no right to that information and only the executive board was entitled to know the details. “But publicly available copies of the Internal Revenue Service’s form 990 showed that NAPL/NAQP was paying executive salaries to their five Vice Presidents and President/CEO of between about $180,000 to $350,000, and that their compensation had risen as membership had dwindled. About two-and-ahalf years ago, I discontinued my membership because I decided I didn’t want to be supporting them.”

Henry also found â&#x20AC;&#x153;the costs of attending NAPL/NAQPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s conferences got so high that the benefits of listening to the same group of executives talking about the same things didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t justify the expense of going. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Using the same in-house staff as speakers over and over may cut speaker costs, but it gets stale and locks out others with valuable insight. Also, what we need is to talk to each other about the business problems weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re facing and how weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re solving them, but NAPL/NAQPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s program got so regimented that it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem to be happening.â&#x20AC;? Although Prejean and Cappel still maintain their NAPL/NAQP memberships, Prejean has not attended one of their conferences since 2003. Cappel, who both helped organize and attended NAPL/NAQPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last Ownerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Conference in October, estimates the total number of printers and their spouses in attendance at no more than 85. Moreover, in December Stewart blogged that membership numbers released at NAPL/NAQPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s December strategic planning session were around 480 for NAQP and 1,200 for NAPL/NAQP combined. Both counts are estimates, since evidently the postmerger associationsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; records do not separate NAPLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s members from NAQPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s; but collectively their membership has clearly declined significantly from the 3,200 count they reported in 2006 when their merger was finalized. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a shame weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re reluctant to participate now, but we tried very hard to work within NAPL after the merger,â&#x20AC;? recalls Prejean. He remembers occasions when he tried to pose legitimate questions or suggestions on NAPL/NAQPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s list server, only to be told by an executive member to quit rocking the boat. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yet I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll ever find a single e-mail where I attacked NAPL/NAQP,â&#x20AC;? he asserts. Henry reports that after the merger, several owners left NAQPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Advisory Board because they felt the association did not value their opinions and would only consider suggestions they agreed with. Henry explains the need to serve small-business owners differently: â&#x20AC;&#x153;NAPLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s culture never worked for us. Steve Johnson [NAQPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s former President/CEO who left in 2010] used to tell us: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Every one of you guys is used to making the final decision and having your own way. Coming together and co-operating to form a group decision is not what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re used to doing.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; If we try to get too structured or try to force things down our membersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; throats, they wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t receive it well. NPOAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sources of funds are strictly membership dues and vendors, so everything is membership-driven. â&#x20AC;&#x153;By contrast, NAPL is used to being corporate partners. Membership dues are their lowest priority because they derive a lot more of their revenues from trade shows, consulting, and corporate sponsors.â&#x20AC;? Some of the American trade press attribute NPOAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s start-up to 2012 events in which NAPL/NAQP replaced Stewart with another author of statistical reports and banned Stewart from participating on NAPL/NAQPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s list server for his allegedly inappropriate remarks. But Prejean, Henry, and Cappel all confirm that Stewart never participated in the initial Continued on page 38

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teleconference or founding of NPOA. Rather, the founders enlisted Stewart’s participation later on because he knew how to market the association effectively and contributed both helpful content and his own database of over 30,000 industry contacts, many of whom were membership prospects. “We wouldn’t be anywhere near where we are today in this short of a time without John Stewart,” says Henry. Cappel adds: “It would be a strategic error to think that NPOA is the John Stewart Association, although a lot of detractors see it that way. Cappel continues: “NPOA did not evolve in any crystallizing moment. Rather, it is an evolutionary product. Just as in nature, the marketplace abhors a vacuum and will cause it to be filled. NPOA evolved because of the vacuum that existed because in practice a partnership between NAPL and NAQP never really happened or met NAQP members’ expectations – a situation reflected in NAPL/NAQP’s declining membership. I think a lot of people who left NAPL/NAQP have been looking for something like NPOA for a long time.” April conference

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NPOA’s future

To date almost all NPOA’s development has been accomplished by volunteer labour. “No one has received a salary or payment other than a Web designer, a professional writer who prepared some press releases, and board members who were [not paid for their services but] reimbursed for direct out-of-pocket expenses,” reports Henry. “We have also hired Becky Whatley, a former NAQP Printer of the Year and NAQP board member, who does event and political consulting, to help co-ordinate the conference.” Henry fields between five and 50 e-mails a day on association business (for Prejean, it’s more like 50) and estimates that each founder has spent at least 100 volunteer hours on start-up, and Stewart five times as many. Over the long term, they anticipate that they will need to pay part-time or full-time staff or a management firm specializing in associations. As for the board: “I became President because the original get-together was my idea,” admits Prejean. “We tried to keep things small and simple by appointing five officers who will serve until our formal elections at the annual meeting at the conference. Then we’ll see what happens.” Regarding future external relations, Prejean says NAPL/NAQP invited him to a December strategy session at their Chicago headquarters with the Managing Director of NAQP, other members, officers, and board. “I understood they were picking out people like me to consult because they had caught wind that we were spearheading a new association and wanted to head us off and discuss how to do damage control,” he continues. “I couldn’t defend the business decision to make the trip. But you know what? I hope they do wake up and benefit from NPOA, so that one day we can all work together.” Henry says that, although the founders have taken a lot of arrows for their decision to form a new association, they think it will be better for the industry. “Because NPOA developed as a grassroots movement and is based on our demographic’s specific interests and culture, it will appeal to a wide range of owners. And we are already working on adding benefits like vendor discounts, group insurance, and members-only Web content. “Recently NAPL/NAQP has dropped its membership cost to under $500 – from $695 to $465, I think – and is lowering the price of their fall conference. They also have started contacting members more often with more deals on books and Webinars. No matter what happens going forward, these changes would never have been made without NPOA coming about.” Prejean concludes: “When people ask me, ‘What happens if three years from now NPOA doesn’t make it?,’ I say, ‘Nobody lost anything. It’s a good thing while it lasts, and you’re going to get your money’s worth every year you’re involved.’ “But I think it will last for a very long time.”

The program for NPOA’s April conference focuses on members’ business needs, including the issues of running a small printing company on a daily basis and growing new profit centres, including mailing services, sign making, large format, and marketing services in conventional and new media. “We want actionable solutions: Three to five things we can implement the day we get back to the shop to improve operations, sales, or employee management,” says Henry, who serves as liaison between NPOA’s Conference Committee and fivemember Board of Officers. “We’re including networking time and bringing in people I don’t think I’ve heard speak at any conference I’ve ever attended before. “At NAPL/NAQP conference, some experts never get to be presenters because they are not in with the right people of the NAPL/NAQP network. Generally, smaller independents don’t have the dollars they need to pay to buy in per se.” By January, Henry was shocked to learn that NPOA’s conference was proving so popular that they needed to book accommodation for at least 100 printers. The hotel space they were eventually able to secure on short notice and limited funds holds a maximum of 110. “We’re using a newly renovated 3-star hotel with good reviews that costs $150 a night instead of more luxurious $300-a-night accommodation,” Henry clarifies. “We can’t expect everyone to pay that type of money.” By February, the conference had sold out and the NPOA had 254 registered members in five countries. The planners say they have more than enough ideas for good content to fill a second conference next spring, which they are considering holding in New Orleans for a second time before moving the event to a different part of the country. They also plan to create follow-up Webinars with the major speakers for people who miss the conference and attendees who want to re- Victoria Gaitskell is keen to exchange ideas with readers at victoria@printaction.com view the material in more depth.

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process was explained in detail, how the image is inkjetted onto a heated transfer belt, which turns the ink into a semi-solid type material, which is then transferred to the paper. The unique properties of the belt, details were not given, is described as providing a 100 percent transfer of the image from the belt onto the paper. Gilad Tzori also showed images of a printed dot using the nanography process and the same magenta dot printed with various printing technologies currently available in the market. The superior quality of the nanography process was clearly visible. The nanogra-

phy printing process allows for printing on most any substrate. Nano pigments deliver a broader colour gamut than standard offset print. The Landa black has the L*a*b* values of 5.4, 0.7 and 0.05 compared to the ISO standard of 16, -0.1, 0.1. The ink film is 500 nanometers thick. The printed density for coated and uncoated paper is the same, since the ink does not sink into the paper, but rather sits on top. Deinkablity studies have also shown good results, according to Landa. Many of the students from various universities in the United States and Canada, as well as a European university, were impressed by this new technology and how it may alter the printing industry. Tzori also

described where Landa sees its market niche and how the company’s techology will bridge the gap between short-run digital and longer-run offset jobs. It was also stressed that Landa is not reinventing existing machine technology (primarily referring to paper feeder and delivery components). That is also why the Landa operation has signed agreements with some of the industry’s largest press manufacturers. In regards to the sheetfed market, the feedback Landa received from drupa is that the company should focus on developing its 40-inch model. An audience member asked when the new Landa presses might be available and he received a very careful answer, which I understood to mean the machines should arrive in the beginning of 2014. The main challenge currently facing Landa is to achieve the desired print quality, which is delaying the commercial release of the Landa printing presses. The last keynote of the day was given by Dr. Bill Ray of Nth degree technologies in Arizona. His company is working in the field of printed electronics. Ray is a past president of TAGA and a staple of the TAGA conference. At the last TAGA conference in Jacksonville, Florida, he showed a working model of a light bulb that was created around printed LED-type elements, which give off the light. Without a colourconverter layer, the LEDs give off a blue light, which in change turns white with the converter (image on opening page). Dr. Ray made, in my opinion, bold statements in regards to the printed electronics industry. They can be summed up in the following: • nobody is making any money, • organic semiconductors are terrible and have a short lifetime, and • the future of printed electronics lies with graphene and carbon nano tubes. The only successful printed electronic material/device is the glucometer. Ray supported his statements with graphs and studies of electric properties of organic semiconductors. These four keynotes set the tone for the 65th TAGA conference. A variety of high quality presentations on various topics showed that a lot of work still needs to be done in the field of printing and that print is not dead. Digital is also not the one and only solution to save the industry. Quite a few of the European conference attendees said that it is possible to be successful with offset printing and having short runs, by using the latest press equipment that allows for very short make-ready times of four minutes between jobs. It was my impression that printing press manufacturers have this technology available and using a modern and streamlined workflow together with modern presses helps to be successful with short runs. European print shops have adopted these modern technologies and workflows that allow them to be successful and competitive. The 65th TAGA conference was one of the best conferences I attended and I have been going to these TAGA events since 2006. The 66th TAGA conference will be held in Fort Worth, Texas, from March 23 to 26, 2014. Mark the date in your calendar! Martin Habekost is Associate Chair of Ryerson University's Graphic Communications Management program and can be reached at mhabekos@ryerson.ca.

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