Print industry news
Matik appoints Albrecht Sales Manager of Label Products Ricoh and Cisco form strategic partnership
Matik (West Hartford, CT), a North American distributor of
leading European print and packaging technologies, has
appointed Kregg Albrecht as Sales Manager, Label Products.
In this role, he’ll represent Matik label products throughout
Canada and the eastern half of the US. Albrecht has had a
very accomplished business career in printing and packaging,
with sales, marketing and engineering experience. Most
recently, he was at Essentra and had a 20-year tenure at
Nosco, a full-service packaging solutions provider. Albrecht
has also held technical management, research engineering,
processing engineering and product development roles at
Avery Dennison, Fasson North America and Mobil Films
Design Products. Albrecht earned his BS, Industrial Engineering
from Rochester Institute of Technology, and has received a
number US patents and industry print awards. He’s been
involved with a variety of innovative
projects – including security packaging
solutions, integrating anti-counterfeit-
ing technologies across label and
folding cartons, and launching specialty
packaging solutions, including RFID-
enabled labels and cartons, booklet
labels and low-odour/low-migration
Kregg Albrecht
packaging.
PIA opens submissions for its 2019
InterTech Technology Awards
The Printing Industries of America (Pittsburgh, PA) is currently
seeking cutting-edge print and graphic arts technologies
for its 2019 InterTech Technology Awards. The annual
competition hosted by the PIA honours truly innovative
technologies set to shape the future of print and graphic
communications. Manufacturers and suppliers of equipment
and software are encouraged to enter by Friday, May 31, 2019.
Full details can be found at http://www.printing.org/intertech.
“For 70 years the awarded technologies have been a harbinger
of the trends altering the future of our industry,” said Jim
Workman, Vice President, Center for Technology and Research
at Printing Industries of America. Since 1978, the InterTech
Technology Awards have honoured technologies predicted
to have a major impact on
graphic communications and
related industries. Past hon-
ourees have introduced
entirely new products and
services that have revolution-
ized ways of working and
enabled printers to operate
more efficiently. For more
information please email
[email protected].
Jim Workman
10 | April 2019 | GRAPHIC ARTS MAGAZINE
Ricoh and Cisco Systems have announced a global strategic
partnership aimed at providing cloud solutions to empower
digital workplaces that will deliver increased productivity in a
more secure environment. The two companies will jointly
develop solutions that deliver simpler and more secure environ-
ments in three layers – cloud, network and devices – to promote
digital transformation and improve productivity. In a joint statement,
the companies said that firms today are faced with the significant
challenge of improving productivity by using the latest in digital
technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet
of Things (IoT). While many companies are promoting new ways
of working, they need to address increasingly diverse workstyles
that aren’t restricted by place or time, while using cloud and
mobile computing. At the same time, security threats such as
unauthorized access and information leakage are becoming
increasingly sophisticated. To address the advance of cyber
attacks entails expertise and huge costs for companies, said the
companies. “Small and medium-sized businesses that can’t
afford to have dedicated IT administrators, as well as larger
enterprises spread across multiple locations, need a solution to
maintain and manage a secure environment more simply at a
low cost.” By combining Ricoh Smart Integration and Cisco cloud
security solutions under this partnership, Cisco and Ricoh will
connect (using Cisco Meraki, the Ricoh IM C Series of next-
generation multi-functional printers, and other office devices)
seamlessly and securely with multiple cloud services. This solution
should reduce the
time required for
implementation,
operation and
management.
Access becomes a GMG reseller in Canada
GMG Americas (Hingham, MA) has signed an agreement allowing
Access, headquartered in Toronto, to become a dealer of GMG
products throughout Canada. The company’s efforts will be
focused on GMG’s wide array of colour management solutions
as well as its PrintFactory workflow. Access is an operating
business unit of the Access Group that’s been providing IT
solutions to small and medium sized businesses for over 25
years. It’s also developed extensive experience in serving
large-format digital printers, commercial printers, screen
printers, quick copy shops, sign shops, fine-art reproduction
bureaus, reprographic houses and large-format print
franchises across Canada. The company’s factory-trained
specialists recommend equipment and supplies that allow its
customers to produce the highest quality, most cost-effective
output possible. Its specialists also maximize equipment
performance to increase
profitability.
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