Events Calendar
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- L1 - PDF File Preparation for Success in Color Printing (Mac Lab)
- Summary: PDF offers creative pros and printers a common ground for communication and quality print reproduction. However this complex file format requires understanding the details of reproduction, color management and printing.
- Type: Seminar
- Start Date: 10/06/2012 - 01:00pm
- End Date: 10/06/2012 - 04:00pm
- Venue: McCormick Place
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
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- L2 - Color Matching Magic—for Online and Offline Media (Mac Lab)
- Summary: You can create colors that will appear similar in online, mobile, digital tablets and print media using any professional software (such as InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver).
- Type: Seminar
- Start Date: 10/07/2012 - 08:00am
- End Date: 10/07/2012 - 11:00am
- Venue: McCormick Place
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
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- R1 - Simplifying YOUR Pathway to Profitability
- Summary: Competition for business is fierce and pricing is tight. Lower pricing means lower profitability, right? Not necessarily!
- Type: Seminar
- Start Date: 10/07/2012 - 10:00am
- End Date: 10/07/2012 - 12:00pm
- Venue: McCormick Place
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
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- R3 - E-Profit 101: A Publisher’s Guide to E-Book Production
- Summary: Want to know how to convert your customers’ books and documentation into the new digital formats? Learn ‘how-to’ take part in this publishing revolution from an author and e-book technician who’s already...
- Type: Seminar
- Start Date: 10/07/2012 - 10:00am
- End Date: 10/07/2012 - 12:00pm
- Venue: McCormick Place
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
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- R4 - Wondrous Workflow: A Printer’s Perspective on Optimized Automation
- Summary: In today’s modern printing operation the use of automation is essential for profitability—and there are many different solutions for increasing productivity and reducing the touch points that introduce both costs and...
- Type: Seminar
- Start Date: 10/07/2012 - 10:00am
- End Date: 10/07/2012 - 12:00pm
- Venue: McCormick Place
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
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- R2 - Branding Revisited: Marketing for FREE in the ‘New Age’ of Social Media
- Summary: The need for Branding, Marketing, and Selling is still here—but the rules have changed. Technology and the economy have given rise to a new opportunity to sell yourself and your company. Social Marketing has a new...
- Type: Seminar
- Start Date: 10/07/2012 - 10:00am
- End Date: 10/07/2012 - 12:00pm
- Venue: McCormick Place
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
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- Pathways to Profits and Productivity: An Interactive Event
- Summary: Does your company operate at peak productivity? Would you like to sell more? Get better performance from your employees? Manage your financials more efficiently? Develop a ‘killer’ marketing program? Collect your...
- Type: Seminar
- Start Date: 10/07/2012 - 11:00am
- End Date: 10/07/2012 - 12:00pm
- Venue: McCormick Place
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
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- NEWSFLASH! Research Data and New Technology Update
- Summary: As the International Newspaper Group (ING) wraps up its annual conference, held again at GRAPH EXPO, this special session co-produced by NPES and GASC will present the hot trending issues especially related to...
- Type: Seminar
- Start Date: 10/07/2012 - 11:00am
- End Date: 10/07/2012 - 12:00pm
- Venue: McCormick Place
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
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- Global Channel Partners Summit
- Summary: In the wake of changing customer demands, new technology, the impacts of e-communications in the media mix, an uncertain global economy, and more the dynamics of today’s industry channel are forever changed. What...
- Type: Training
- Start Date: 10/07/2012 - 12:00pm
- End Date: 10/10/2012 - 04:00pm
- Venue: Booth #4461, McCormick Place
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
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- F1 - Your Digital Services Business Plan: A "How-to" Guide for Marketing Success (Luncheon Session)
- Summary: While the potential of digital services is widely recognized, realizing that potential means overcoming challenges, such as creating a new manufacturing and sales process, convincing clients that we can do more than...
- Type: Seminar
- Start Date: 10/07/2012 - 12:00pm
- End Date: 10/07/2012 - 01:00pm
- Venue: McCormick Place
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
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- FREE Seminar: Discover How the Best Printing Companies/MSPs Dominate Their Markets
- Summary: Join Tawnya Starr, PrinterPresence president, to learn what we've discovered over the last 12 years that successful printing companies are doing to grow their business, whether transitioning to a market services provider...
- Type: Seminar
- Start Date: 10/07/2012 - 12:00pm
- End Date: 10/07/2012 - 01:00pm
- Venue: S403a, South Hall, Level 4. McCormick Place
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
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- R5 - USPS News: The Status, The Legislation, The Grassroots Effort—and YOU
- Summary: Approximately 50 percent of all printed material is distributed through the mail, so it's important to know how proposed legislation will impact the U.S. Postal Service.
- Type: Seminar
- Start Date: 10/07/2012 - 02:00pm
- End Date: 10/07/2012 - 03:00pm
- Venue: McCormick Place
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
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- R6 - 'New Breed' Print Buyers: How to Reach AND Teach Them
- Summary: In this engaging session led by the industry's #1 print buying expert, come learn exactly what today's professional print customers (buyers, designers, and marcom pros) are looking for in their service providers.
- Type: Seminar
- Start Date: 10/07/2012 - 02:00pm
- End Date: 10/07/2012 - 03:00pm
- Venue: McCormick Place
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
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- R7 - Re-Branding Wizardry for the CRD and In-Plant Print Centers
- Summary: In-Plant’s for years have been viewed by their parent organizations in a very questionable light; most of the time these undeserved reputations are unwarranted.
- Type: Seminar
- Start Date: 10/07/2012 - 02:00pm
- End Date: 10/07/2012 - 03:00pm
- Venue: McCormick Place
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
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- R8 - Hi-Performance Packaging: Seize the Opportunities—Short-run Color, VDP, RFID—and More!
- Summary: With little-to-no sacrifice of precious packaging real estate, Consumer Product Companies (CPC’s) are learning about consumer purchasing patterns, demographics, and lifestyles in ways never possible before.
- Type: Seminar
- Start Date: 10/07/2012 - 02:00pm
- End Date: 10/07/2012 - 03:00pm
- Venue: McCormick Place
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
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- L3 - Bridging the Gaps: Mastering Adobe Creative Suite CS6 (Mac Lab)
- Summary: Increase your expertise in working interactively and quickly between Bridge, Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator and Acrobat, and see how CS6 integrates with Adobe’s new Creative Cloud.
- Type: Training
- Start Date: 10/07/2012 - 02:00pm
- End Date: 10/07/2012 - 05:00pm
- Venue: McCormick Place
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
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- R9 - Social Commerce: ‘Secrets’ to Direct Sales via Social Media
- Summary: Sure social media is great for customer engagement, building rapport and conversation, but can you use it for direct sales? Of course!
- Type: Seminar
- Start Date: 10/07/2012 - 04:00pm
- End Date: 10/07/2012 - 05:00pm
- Venue: McCormick Place
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
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- R10 - Inside ROI: Tracking the Metrics of Marketing Success
- Summary: With countless media choices out there, every vehicle you choose to communicate your message should be justified through measured results.
- Type: Seminar
- Start Date: 10/07/2012 - 04:00pm
- End Date: 10/07/2012 - 05:00pm
- Venue: McCormick Place
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
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- R11 - Print Unleashed 1! New Media Methods for Crossing Communication Channels
- Summary: Are you looking to extend business opportunities to your customer base beyond ink-on-paper? What opportunities are available that combine print with engaging, interactive media?
- Type: Seminar
- Start Date: 10/07/2012 - 04:00pm
- End Date: 10/07/2012 - 05:00pm
- Venue: McCormick Place
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
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- R12 - Lean Manufacturing: 5S—Straight-Talk Steps to Increased Productivity
- Summary: 5S programs can dramatically improve productivity though the elimination of wasted time in the plant as well as improved efficiency.
- Type: Seminar
- Start Date: 10/07/2012 - 04:00pm
- End Date: 10/07/2012 - 05:00pm
- Venue: McCormick Place
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
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- Xplor
- Summary: How is your message going to stand out and get noticed?
- Start Date: 10/08/2012 - 08:00am
- End Date: 10/08/2012 - 12:00pm
- Venue: GRAPH EXPO 2012
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
- Email: Chad@xplor.org
- Phone: 813-949-6171
- Fax: 813-949-9977
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- R13 - Sales Management Savvy: How to Hire, Motivate, and Compensate Top Performers
- Summary: There's a lot more to hiring a salesperson than running an ad in the newspaper or on monster.com. And, there’s a lot more to effective motivation than a fat compensation plan.
- Type: Seminar
- Start Date: 10/08/2012 - 08:00am
- End Date: 10/08/2012 - 10:00am
- Venue: McCormick Place
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
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- R14 - UV Curing Now: New Markets, Profits, Pitfalls—and More!
- Summary: UV curing is a growth area in the Graphic Communication Industry even in these difficult times. This interactive session will examine the large number of topics that you must consider when looking at, or living with...
- Type: Seminar
- Start Date: 10/08/2012 - 08:00am
- End Date: 10/08/2012 - 10:00am
- Venue: McCormick Place
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
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- R15 - Growth Strategies for Quick/Small Commercial Printers & Corporate/Education/In-Plant Print Centers
- Summary: Quick, Small Commercial Printers and In-Plant Printers share many of the same concerns and struggles. How does my financial and operational performance compare to industry leaders? How can I listen to the voice of the...
- Type: Seminar
- Start Date: 10/08/2012 - 08:00am
- End Date: 10/08/2012 - 10:00am
- Venue: McCormick Place
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
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- R16 - Hybrid Printing: Integrating the Power of Offset & Digital
- Summary: While a project today can be produced using only an offset, toner or inkjet printing process—for some projects the best solution may be a combination of all three.
- Type: Seminar
- Start Date: 10/08/2012 - 08:00am
- End Date: 10/08/2012 - 10:00am
- Venue: McCormick Place
- Location: Chciago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
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- L4 - Photoshop CS6 for Prepress and Printing (Mac Lab)
- Summary: Come prepared to update and hone your Photoshop CS6 image correction, preparation and printing-specific skills for prepress and printing—including conventional presses, digital presses and inkjet printers.
- Type: Training
- Start Date: 10/08/2012 - 08:00am
- End Date: 10/08/2012 - 11:00am
- Venue: McCormick Place
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
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- PBI Color Management Workshop
- Summary: From Print Buyers International
- Type: Seminar
- Start Date: 10/08/2012 - 09:00am
- End Date: 10/08/2012 - 12:00pm
- Venue: GRAPH EXPO 2012
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
- Email: barbara@printbuyersinternational.com
- Phone: 978-692-4651
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- X4 - Will It Mail? Design Considerations for Inkjet Transaction and Direct Mail
- Summary: This presentation provides a checklist for the things to re-evaluate in your current print jobs in terms of use of color saturation, density and PMS colors as well as the considerations for how close to the edges, and...
- Type: Conference/Expo
- Start Date: 10/08/2012 - 10:00am
- End Date: 10/08/2012 - 10:00am
- Venue: McCormick Place
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
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- X5 - Mining and Using Social Media Data to Increase Customer Engagement and Relevant Multichannel Communications
- Summary: In this session, Bill Parker, CMO of GMC Software Technology, will discuss how social media data can be mined and used to better engage prospects and customers across multiple communication channels.
- Type: Seminar
- Start Date: 10/08/2012 - 10:00am
- End Date: 10/08/2012 - 10:00am
- Venue: McCormick Place
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
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- X6 - Making it Relevant: An Introduction to Variable Data Printing
- Summary: This session is designed as an introduction to variable data documents and printing -- an entry level session for people heading into the brave new world of variable printing.
- Type: Seminar
- Start Date: 10/08/2012 - 10:00am
- End Date: 10/08/2012 - 10:00am
- Venue: McCormick Place
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
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- R17 - Digital Press Color Management Mastery
- Summary: Everyone wants to use a digital press for everything, short run production, on demand printing, and sometimes proofing and the list goes on. But what must happen to control the color in order to make a digital press...
- Type: Seminar
- Start Date: 10/08/2012 - 10:00am
- End Date: 10/08/2012 - 12:00pm
- Venue: McCormick Place
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
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- R18 - Advanced Selling: 6 Essential Strategies to WIN in Challenging Times
- Summary: This session will provide 6 key strategies that printing salespeople can engage to sell their way through a transitioning printing value proposition.
- Type: Seminar
- Start Date: 10/08/2012 - 10:00am
- End Date: 10/08/2012 - 12:00pm
- Venue: McCormick Place
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
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- Printing Standards Forum
- Summary: IDEAlliance, NPES and GASC are hosting a Printing Standards Forum on the Graph EXPO show floor. Being held in the United States for the first time.
- Start Date: 10/08/2012 - 10:00am
- End Date: 10/08/2012 - 04:00pm
- Venue: Graph Expo 2012
- Location: Chicago, IL
- Website: Visit Site
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- R19 - Mastering the Triad: Social Media, SEO & Your Website
- Summary: During this presentation, you will gain actionable guidance on how to grow your business by improving social media, SEO and website efforts.
- Type: Seminar
- Start Date: 10/08/2012 - 10:00am
- End Date: 10/08/2012 - 12:00pm
- Venue: McCormick Place
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
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- R20 - Empowered In-Plants: Tell-All SUCCESS Stories from the Field
- Summary: Despite what you read, not every In-Plant is facing closure. Come hear from the top In-Plants selected by other In-Plants how they are growing their operations, adding services, and have become a strategic asset to their...
- Type: Seminar
- Start Date: 10/08/2012 - 10:00am
- End Date: 10/08/2012 - 12:00pm
- Venue: McCormick Place
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
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- X7 - Color Theory Meets Document Design: How to Make Your Documents Sing in Color!
- Summary: Terry Wozniak will discuss the basics of color theory and how they relate implementing and controlling color in the production world, whether using toner, ink-jet or offset.
- Type: Seminar
- Start Date: 10/08/2012 - 11:00am
- End Date: 10/08/2012 - 11:00am
- Venue: McCormick Place
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
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- X8 - Linking Print and Mail: Transitioning to a White Paper Factory Workflow
- Summary: Learn about the fundamental benefits of linking print and mail, along with new print and software strategies that can help you successfully transition to a White Paper Factory™ workflow.
- Start Date: 10/08/2012 - 11:00am
- End Date: 10/08/2012 - 11:00am
- Venue: McCormick Place
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
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- X9 - One Algorithm Doesn’t Fit All
- Summary: This session will explore why companies in various industries need to abandon the one-size-fits-all mindset and how printing companies can help them to tailor their marketing communications to the relevant needs of their...
- Type: Seminar
- Start Date: 10/08/2012 - 11:00am
- End Date: 10/08/2012 - 11:00am
- Venue: McCormick Place
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
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- Connecting Customers with Print
- Summary: During this eye-opening luncheon presentation you will hear from three of our industry’s top suppliers and participating InPlant Managers.
- Type: Seminar
- Start Date: 10/08/2012 - 12:00pm
- End Date: 10/08/2012 - 01:00pm
- Venue: McCormick Place
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
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- F2 - Follow the Money: Introducing the NEW World of Print Commerce (Luncheon Session)
- Summary: Half of all US print volume is gone and so are half the printers, paper tonnage, graphic arts media, and… gulp…consultants. That’s the bad news. But there is good news and this session will detail the new...
- Type: Seminar
- Start Date: 10/08/2012 - 12:00pm
- End Date: 10/08/2012 - 01:00pm
- Venue: McCormick Place
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
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- FREE Seminar: Optimize Your Mail, Grow Your Business – Let's make it Personal
- Summary: Pitney Bowes will share insights, tools and case studies about leveraging new options for personalization, color, graphics and QR codes.
- Type: Seminar
- Start Date: 10/08/2012 - 12:00pm
- End Date: 10/08/2012 - 01:00pm
- Venue: S405ab, South Hall, Level 4, McCormick Place
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
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- R21 - Time Management Debunked: Stop Being ‘Busy’—Get Productive!
- Summary: This session will reveal how you can use your time more efficiently to increase your productivity and sell more in less time.
- Type: Seminar
- Start Date: 10/08/2012 - 02:00pm
- End Date: 10/08/2012 - 03:00pm
- Venue: McCormick Place
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
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- R22 - Growth Niche Markets: Entry Strategies for Success
- Summary: Even in this changing economic climate a few market segments have been either steady or growing. Together we will examine several of these vertical markets including: Higher Education, Healthcare, Non-Profits, and...
- Type: Seminar
- Start Date: 10/08/2012 - 02:00pm
- End Date: 10/08/2012 - 03:00pm
- Venue: McCormick Place
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
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- R23 - Production Inkjet NOW: Practical Tips for Peak Productivity
- Summary: Come join this in-depth evaluation of the new technologies, learn about changing market expectations, and gain the latest information to uncover new business opportunities.
- Type: Seminar
- Start Date: 10/08/2012 - 02:00pm
- End Date: 10/08/2012 - 03:00pm
- Venue: McCormick Place
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
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- L5 - Print Unleashed 2! New Media Methods for Crossing Communication Channels (Mac Lab)
- Summary: Marketers and those who purchase print are constantly looking for new ways to engage their audience and elicit a response. Printers, you can respond with highly innovative solutions by offering technologies that cross...
- Type: Seminar
- Start Date: 10/08/2012 - 02:00pm
- End Date: 10/08/2012 - 05:00pm
- Venue: McCormick Place
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
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- R24 - In-Plant Ingenuity: Building YOUR Company Inside Another
- Summary: In-Plants: the time has come to build and activate YOUR business plan.
- Type: Seminar
- Start Date: 10/08/2012 - 02:00pm
- End Date: 10/08/2012 - 03:00pm
- Venue: McCormick Place
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
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- R25 - Building Your Company’s ‘Dream Team’—and Training Them to Win!
- Summary: As printing companies transform to take advantage of the structural shift within the industry and redistribution of the business, one area that cannot be ignored is the sales team. What did the reps do well in the...
- Type: Seminar
- Start Date: 10/08/2012 - 04:00pm
- End Date: 10/08/2012 - 05:00pm
- Venue: McCormick Place
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
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- R26 - 50 Hot Tips to FIRE-UP Your Social Media Success!
- Summary: Here we’ll talk about ways to SUPERCHARGE your social media efforts: how to get more ‘bang’ for your social time-spending buck! By using the right tools, you can engage with less time and more results—and we’ll...
- Type: Seminar
- Start Date: 10/08/2012 - 04:00pm
- End Date: 10/08/2012 - 05:00pm
- Venue: McCormick Place
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
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- R27 - The “Magic” of Color Management: Straight Talk on Standards, Guidelines, Tips n’ Tricks
- Summary: What’s new in color management approaches used in digital and lithographic printing… and what changes may be on the horizon? Come explore these approaches based on their relationship to the current industry...
- Type: Seminar
- Start Date: 10/08/2012 - 04:00pm
- End Date: 10/08/2012 - 05:00pm
- Venue: McCormick Place
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
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- R28 - Postal Update – The 2014 Full Service IMb Mandate: What You Need to Know
- Summary: Kicking off with a brief postal update, this informative session will focus on how, in January 2014, mailers must meet Full Service Intelligent Mail (IMb) requirements in order to earn automation discounts.
- Type: Seminar
- Start Date: 10/08/2012 - 04:00pm
- End Date: 10/08/2012 - 05:00pm
- Venue: McCormick Place
- Location: Chicago, IL United States
- Website: Visit Site
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