David Zwang

The ninth annual Digital Packaging Summit — the largest to date — kicked off on Nov. 13 in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. On opening night, experts in the field shared their takeaways from using digital printing for labels and packaging, as well as the benefits they've reaped.

As day three of the 10th annual Inkjet Summit wrapped up, attendees dispersed, returning to their shops motivated, changed, and hyped to expand the use of inkjet in their production.

GHENT, Belgium—The Ghent PDF Workgroup (GWG) will present an educational session at the Knowledge Centre Seminar Theater at IPEX 2010, taking place in May at the NEC in Birmingham, UK.

Pittsburgh, Pa.—Printing Industries of America, in partnership with its Digital Printing Council, announced a new workshop designed to supply attendees with a comprehensive look at what it takes to produce reliable, high-quality digital output.

David Zwang, printing consultant to the U.S. State Department and advisor to graphic arts' premier manufacturers and printers, will speak to Graphics of the Americas attendees on Friday, February 27, at 1:00 pm about actions our industry must take to survive in 2009.

Though available for years, options are just now being used to improve prepress workflow. Like most businesses in the current economy, convertors are constantly looking to increase their cost-effectiveness through new technology. One often-overlooked stage that printers have begun to explore in an effort to improve workflow, and therefore costs, is the prepress facet of the industry. Improvements in prepress workflow and/or data transmission have been available for quite a while now, but converters have been slow to take advantage of these opportunities. "The tools for improvement are there," says David Zwang, IPA operational TEAM consultant leader and founder of Zwang & Company,