Convergences with the Print World

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News

• The NBM Show has announced their locations for 2020. Look for 2019 locations: Long Beach, Calif., Irving, Texas, Cleveland, Ohio and Charlotte, North Carolina. Next year the show returns to Indianapolis and adding the new cities of Santa Clara, Calif., Richmond, Virginia, and Providence, Rhode Island. www.theNBMShow.com

• Printavo Announces PrintHustlers Conf 2019 The screen printing conference takes place July 12–13 at East-West University in downtown Chicago for screen printers, embroiderers, and apparel decorators of all levels. For more information, visit www.printhustlers.com.

Convergences with the Print World

Terry: Deborah Corn is with Print Media Center and is the Intergalactic Ambassador to The Printerverse. We’ve done some podcasts together under Deborah’s platform, so today we’d like to welcome her to the 2 Regular Guys! 2 Regular Guys and a Girl who Prints! Welcome to the show Deborah.

Aaron: It has been a little bit since ThreadX, but we are going to be hearing some parts of interviews we did together at ThreadX, so how about a quick recap from your perspective Deborah. As an outside to the garment decorating world who is now one of us, what was your take on the event?

Terry: So let’s play a quick clip from Dan Marx, Director of Content Development at SGIA, who we interviewed at ThreadX. This is pulled from the middle of our interview where Dan is discussing Custom Activation, Zazzle and More. :::PlayClip::: What can the garment world help the print world with and Vice Versa?

Aaron: We also had a chance to talk to someone at ThreadX who is an ink on paper guy for 30+ years, Tom O’Brien, President at AccuLink. He is an early adopter of technology. Let’s hear a short clip from him about how he is looking at the convergence and why :::PlayClip::: Is the digital technology in the decorating space the bridge between our two worlds?

Terry: We also had a great discussion during our interviews, 2 Regular Guys and a Girl Who Prints with Ford Bowers, President & CEO at SGIA. Let’s hear a small portion of that :::Play Clip::: What are some other areas of collaboration that people would be missing out on if they don’t attend PrintingUnited?

Aaron: PrintingUnited is coming up October 23-25, 2019 in Dallas Texas. What are you most excited about over that 3 days awesomeness?

Terry: Deborah, where can our listeners find out more about you, and your podcast? What’s the latest news in your world?