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PRINTING United has announced the decision to transition from an in-person event in Atlanta, Georgia USA earlier scheduled for 21 to 23 October 2020 to a comprehensive digital platform of four weeks of community-based, content-rich Insight Days delivering to a worldwide audience.
The show company has provided an up-to-date plans to present the four power-packed weeks of hosted global programming and new product unveilings across PRINTING United Month this October, beginning October 5 and running through the week of October 26, 2020.
“The PRINTING United Digital Experience provides a unique opportunity to bring those highly anticipated product launches and engagements to the printing community at large, both from an exhibitor and attendee standpoint,” says Mark J. Subers, President of PRINTING United. “Our expert team has worked diligently to build a unique digital model to ensure that all market segments have a front row seat to this powerful, guided event, to further enhance opportunities for engagement and interaction.”
This series of community-based, content-rich Insight Days will deliver a program like no other. A new series will kick off each week highlighting a different community focus spanning apparel, commercial, digital textile, graphics/wide-format, in-plant, industrial, mailing/fulfillment, and packaging. In this new format, the printing industry will together experience a variety of highly-focused hosted tracks and exclusive ways in which vendors and customers can interact.
“The energy and enthusiasm we’ve received from our partners as they learn more about the new PRINTING United Digital Experience platform is profound,” says Ford Bowers, President and CEO, PRINTING United Alliance. “While we are disappointed not to be able to convene in person this year, we are committed to delivering on our promise in bringing the latest in technology, education and innovation to our industry in 2020. While the event will take shape differently than originally planned, it will undoubtedly serve as intended to our vast audiences nevertheless.”
“The printing industry greatly needed this event to go on this year, both from a sales perspective and for peer engagement in general,” says Marco Boer, Vice President, IT Strategies. “PRINTING United’s convergent roots allows for a seamless transition to this exceptional online platform, one of which we are proud to support. Our team appreciates the opportunity and limelight to share in experiencing the newest technology that companies in our industry have worked so hard to bring to market and waited all year to debut.”
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In a related development, PRINTING United Alliance has scheduled series of and FREE-TO-ATTEND live webinars to update stakeholders in the industry in the coming weeks like Safe and Sound: Don’t Stick Your Hand in Moving Equipment slated for Monday, July 27, 2020 at 2:00 PM ET/11:00 AM PT; Assessing Continuous-feed Inkjet for Your Print Operation on Thursday, July 30, 2020 at 2:00 PM ET/11:00 AM PT; and an on demand Maximizing Wide-Format Profitability in the New Normal.All are to hold in 60 minutes.
Topics to be covered in the Safe and Sound: Don’t Stick Your Hand in Moving Equipment webinar include: Lockout/Tagout procedures with tips on machine guarding; Required First Aid programs; What to do in case of an emergency… Can you say Fire!; Dressing safely for the workplace; and Use of personal protective equipment. You will also learn how implementing or updating your safety practices can earn you recognition by OSHA – through its Safe & Sound programme. Assessing Continuous-feed Inkjet for Your Print Operation webinar will show you which applications are best suited to inkjet and which questions you should ask as you research the technology. It will also teach the key differences between continuous-feed inkjet, toner and litho technologies and how variable data can open up new opportunities. Lastly, in Maximizing Wide-Format Profitability in the New Normal, you will learn about current and changing market trends in print buying and how to approach current and prospective customers aside how wide-format printing offers the ideal solution to address the evolving needs of graphic communications in our new normal.
Industry experts such as Aron Allenson – Product Manager for the Truepress Jet 520 Series and Customer Success Manager for Strategic Accounts, SCREEN Americas; Dan Johansen – Director of Sales and Marketing, Ricoh USA, Inc; Heather Nortz – Sustainability Programs Coordinator, PRINTING United Alliance; Gary Jones – Director, Environmental, Health, and Safety Affairs, PRINTING United Alliance and Marci Kinter – VP, Government & Regulatory Affairs Department, PRINTING United Alliance will joined Bob Neubauer, Editor at In-plant Impressions.
Further more information about joining the live webinar, log on printingunited.com
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