Ben Franklin

Calvin Frost, CEO of Channeled Resources Group (CRG), shares his thoughts on one of the most important sustainability issues facing the pressure-sensitive labeling industry—that of release liner waste and landfilling.

ROCHESTER, N.Y.—A new video titled “The Pathway to Prosperity, Choosing a Career in the Graphic Communication Industry,” designed to promote the advantages of a career in the field, features “Ben Franklin” (played by well-known Franklin character actor Ralph Archbold) and Jeff Hayzlett, chief business development officer and vice president, Eastman Kodak Company.

Two packaging printers share their ideas on preflighting electronic design files. IT WAS A printer by the name of Ben Franklin who once quipped "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." Farsighted and wise as he was, Ben could never have imagined how true those words would ring for his twenty-first century inky-fingered brethren. Preflighting—the process of reviewing and repairing incoming electronic files from agencies and designers—is good medicine for avoiding costly and time-consuming problems further down the road in the production process. Whether you use off-the-shelf preflighting software, or have developed your own procedures, the extent to which you examine