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Meet Canon inkjet customer and thINK member “It started with a conversation with my dad over Christmas break about the family print business, centering around how to regroup and move forward post-COVID and plan for strategic growth,” said Hunter Johnson, CEO, JPS Books + Logistics No stranger to the print world, Hunter Johnson grew up working his teen years shipping books out of his dad’s unairconditioned warehouse, and later took on various roles intermittently during college breaks. However, after college, Hunter began his 15-year career in business consulting, working at companies including IBM, Deloitte Consulting and Sabre. It was in his role as a business consultant that the conversation took place. Shortly thereafter, Hunter conducted a six-week consultation for his family’s print business and mapped out a vision and strategic path forward for the company to regroup from COVID and continue building on an already successful business. The consultation quickly morphed into his …

thINK Announces thINK Ahead 2023 Registration is OPEN to all Canon production inkjet customers. thINK Ahead 2023 registration is now open to all Canon production inkjet customers. The annual inkjet user event, to be held July 17-19, 2023, at The Boca Raton in Boca Raton, Florida, brings Canon inkjet customers and industry experts together for networking, demos, and educational sessions, with the objective of accelerating success for Canon production inkjet customers. thINK Ahead attendees can also expect a special “un-keynote” performance by Freestyle+, lively evening events, and health and wellness activities, all designed to help foster the spirit of connecting as a community to learn and share best practices. …

Canon inkjet print service providers looking for a new profitable opportunity should consider the photo specialty market. According to the latest statistics from market research firm Technavio, the photo printing and merchandise market size is expected to increase to USD 5.80 billion from 2021 to 2026, and the market's growth momentum will accelerate at a CAGR of 5.12%. There are several forces creating opportunities in photo specialty print applications.The biggest one is that over one trillion digital photos are taken annually by both consumers and professional photographers. This creates demand for printed photo specialty products. While photos are stored on digital devices and shared on social media, they continue to be printed for brochures and magazines, personalized photobooks, postcards, calendars, yearbooks, children’s books, and other types of customized print products. The output quality and affordability of production inkjet presses can meet this demand for printed …

thINK Fast delivers key takeaways from the Voice of the Print Buyer in under 5 minutes. Plus, help for those looking to increase automation. Read more in our March E-Newsletter ! …

Meet Canon inkjet customer and thINK member from Image Direct Dilip Parthasarathy, Owner and President of Image Direct Group, LLC. , a minority owned business (MBE) with 70+ employees, proudly represents his family’s third generation in the print industry. He reminisces of fond childhood memories growing up in India working in the print shop his grandfather established in 1945.  Dilip credits his father for his success today, sharing that his father led him by example. He explained, “My father is an extremely intelligent, savvy businessman, and placed a high importance on the art of continued learning and staying current in your industry, and that philosophy has been a big part of my success.”   At the young age of 23, Dilip came to America to get his master’s degree in Print Management and an MBA in Strategic Management, after which he began working as a solution architect focusing on supply chain strategies for the manufacturing industry. Dilip also worked for several years in IT …