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Midland Paper is a thINK founding partner and a Platinum sponsor of thINK 2016. We sat down with Mike Ratcliff, Midland’s Vice-President and General Manager for Specialty Paper and Film to hear their inkjet perspectives. Tell us about Midland Paper, Packaging + Supplies Headquartered out of Chicago, IL,  Midland Paper is over 100 years old with annual sales volumes over $1.1 billion. The company is independently owned and is one of North America’s largest independent merchant distributors with resources dedicated specifically to the high-speed continuous inkjet market. Our Quick Jet! Line of Inkjet Media consists of products compatible with leading production inkjet digital presses. How important is the inkjet market for Midland Paper?  Extremely important. It’s a growth market and a market in which we can use our unique talent, knowledge and resources to provide value to our customers who are investing in inkjet technology. Our ultimate goal is to help them maximize their return on …

Welcome to the new and improved thINK website. We invite you to take some time to look around. In addition to beautiful new graphics, we’ve also improved the functionality of the site. Hopefully, we’ve made it easier for you to not only find the resources you need but also stay in tune with what’s going on in the thINK community. Here are a few new things to look for: Home Page. It starts on the Home page where banners alert you to important community information. Scroll down and you’ll always see the most recent resource additions, blog posts, and tweets. About and Membership. Some new additions to the site include a news section where you can find past thINK press releases. Past issues of the community newsletter thINK Forward are now archived under the Membership navigation. Events. The thINK 2016 event site is now live. We’ll be adding information on speakers and sessions as details are finalized so keep checking back. Webinars. Our community site houses a huge library of webinars …

Domtar is a thINK founding partner and Platinum sponsor of thINK 2016. We talked with Jay Abraham, Technical Sales Manager, to hear why Domtar is such an enthusiastic supporter of thINK .  Why did you decide to sponsor thINK 2016? We’re always working on building our relationship with Canon and take any opportunity to partner with them. Sometimes that’s testing or co-developing papers. Sometimes it’s working side by side with Canon sales reps to assist customers who are considering inkjet. Other times, it’s education in the inkjet community. The user community thINK is something we wanted to support financially because it’s not only good for our company and for Canon, it’s good for inkjet users in general. What was your experience at the inaugural thINK conference? thINK 2015 was such a professionally run show and truly exceeded our expectations, especially as a first-year event. Victor Bohnert and the thINK Board did an outstanding job of organizing it. And just the level of …

Have you registered for thINK 2016 yet? Our annual conference is quickly approaching and the team has been working hard to develop the sessions you want and need. As this year’s conference chair I wanted to share an update on what you’ll see at thINK 2016 – and what you won’t. The most noticeable change for 2016 is the addition of advanced sessions. Many of us have been using inkjet for a while and are starting to take advantage of all its capabilities. That’s why we’ve added sessions covering topics like enterprise color management or 1 to 1 communications. Those new to inkjet will also find sessions aimed at them, from the basic inkjet concepts to how to sell it.  More takeaways One thing you won’t see at thINK 2016 is the watered down case studies sometimes found at industry conferences. Instead, we wanted to take it a level deeper and give attendees useful information they can take back to their organizations and start implementing immediately.  One of the most popular sessions …

Appvion (formerly Appleton Papers) is a thINK founding partner and a Platinum sponsor of thINK 2016. We sat down with Jeff Luehring, Business Team Leader and Connie Evers, Brand Manager of the company’s inkjet team to hear their inkjet perspectives. How important is the inkjet market for Appvion? The inkjet market is highly important to us. It’s one of few paper markets that’s growing and it’s growing double digits. The segment is attractive to us not only because of the size of its growth rate but also because it uses a lot of specialized papers, which is one of our core strengths. It is also important for us to bring new products and growth opportunities to our customers.  We view our customers as partners, and  we understand that to assist in their success, we need to help fill any gaps they may have.   How long have you been developing papers for inkjet? Appvion has developed and produced inkjet papers for almost 15 years.  In fact, we’ve been a specialty coated paper maker since …