EFI Ignition Open House Events Address Challenges of Labor, Supply Shortages
She also noted that Fiery software can be used to nest printed products extremely efficiently thus requiring less board. A feature that would be clearly welcome as print service providers face paper and other shortages.
As Ken Hanulec noted in a session that explored several new innovations including EFI’s super high speed signage productions solutions such as Nozomi 18000+ LED printer for display graphics producers coming in 2022 and the 138-inch-wide VUTEk Q3r and 208-inch- wide VUTEk Q5r roll-to-roll production printers launched in 2021, Hanulec shared how EFI is working with a customer in Ohio to create a fully automated production line with a robotic infeed and a robotic outfield. Hanulec shared that many customers have realized, coming out of the pandemic, that putting bodies to problems can’t be the go-to anymore. Firstly, “people don’t have the labor, and they can’t hire labor,” Hanulec remarks. Secondly, the pandemic has shown that there are some very human reasons why labor isn’t always as reliable as automation.
As editor-in-chief of Packaging Impressions — the leading publication and online content provider for the printed packaging markets — Linda Casey leverages her experience in the packaging, branding, marketing, and printing industries to deliver content that label and package printers can use to improve their businesses and operations.
Prior to her role at Packaging Impressions, Casey was editor-in-chief of BXP: Brand Experience magazine, which celebrated brand design as a strategic business competence. Her body of work includes deep explorations into a range of branding, business, packaging, and printing topics.
Casey’s other passion, communications, has landed her on the staffs of a multitude of print publications, including Package Design, Converting, Packaging Digest, Instant & Small Commercial Printer, High Volume Printing, BXP: Brand Experience magazine, and more. Casey started her career more than three decades ago as news director for WJAM, a youth-oriented music-and-news counterpart to WGCI and part of the Chicago-based station’s AM band presence.
