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NEW YORK, N.Y. March 11, 2024 –The Graphic Communications Scholarship Foundation (GCSF) is pleased to announce that the recipient of its 2024 Champion of Education Award is Francis McMahon, Executive Vice President, Canon.  The GCSF Champion of Education Award honors exceptional individuals in the graphic communications and media field who have contributed their time, resources, and talents to advance the industry's understanding and to prepare the next generation of its workforce. As one of the industry’s most influential advocates on behalf of digital printing and publishing, Francis is a Champion of print and graphic media in every sense of the word.  Over the course of his career, Francis has enthusiastically championed for print and helped build some of the strongest communities of printers in the United States. He has overseen organizations that helped educate print service providers and future printing professionals, most notably through thINK, the University Inkjet Program and …

Registration is now open for thINK’s 10th annual thINK Ahead conference, the premier event where Canon production inkjet customers converge for three days of inspiration, education, and networking. thINK Ahead 2024 promises to be an unforgettable experience, featuring inspiring keynotes, in-depth educational sessions, networking opportunities, best practice sharing, partner pavilion sessions, Canon Innovation Center tours and demos, health and wellness activities, entertaining evening events, and special 10th anniversary celebrations. Canon production inkjet customers are invited to register for thINK Ahead 2024 on the thINK member site: …

thINK Ahead registration opens April 1! Plus, U.S. marketers will invest more than $39 billion in direct mail this year — what you need to know in our March E-Newsletter . …

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Meet Canon inkjet customer and thINK member Angela Hipelius, CEO, Liberty Creative Solutions (LCS). Recently named by Printing Impressions as one of the Top 300 Largest Printers of 2023, Liberty Creative Solutions’ Angela Hipelius, CEO, shares how the family-owned print business went from what began as a small print shop established in 1964 to the nationally acclaimed, WBENC - Certified Women’s Business Enterprise business it is today.  Based in Tinley Park, IL with over 65 employees, Angela shares that Liberty Creative Solutions (LCS) is best known for ‘embracing tradition, innovation, and a willingness to adapt to an ever-changing industry’, and it is this, Angela says, that sets them apart as an authority in the dynamic world of print.  LCS prides themselves on being at the forefront of industry innovation, an early inkjet adopter and one of the first to add a Canon ProStream Web-fed Inkjet Press to their floor. “We recognized the ability of the ProStream to blend the speed of …