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Nearly 500 Canon production inkjet customers, partners, and print industry experts came together for thINK Ahead 2024 in Boca Raton, Florida, from July 15-17. Attendees networked, shared best practices, and enhanced their inkjet expertise during this landmark event. Post-event surveys rated thINK Ahead 2024 as one of the best in its 10-year history, with attendees describing it as "Excellent," "Energetic," "Engaging," "Top Notch," "Outstanding," and "Time Well Spent." BOCA RATON, FL., July 31, 2024 – thINK , an independent community of Canon production inkjet customers, announced that nearly 500 Canon inkjet customers, partners and print industry experts came together for the 10th anniversary of the annual inkjet conference, thINK Ahead, to reconnect, share best practices, and enhance their inkjet expertise. thINK Ahead 2024, held July 15-17, 2024, at The Boca Raton in Boca Raton, Florida, is known as a premier event where Canon production inkjet customers come together for three days …

In its 10 th year, the thINK inkjet Canon user group conference brought together almost 500 Canon production inkjet customers, partners and print industry experts to the very luxurious Boca Raton Resort. Since the first Canon thINK Ahead event in 2015 held in New York City, cumulatively almost 5,000 people have attended over 150 breakout sessions. It has become a club of sorts, a must attend event if one is a U.S. Canon production inkjet customer or partner. There is lots of opportunity to network, to learn, and to share the challenges and opportunities faced on a daily basis. Figure 1 Opening Night at Canon thINK 2024 One of the hallmarks of this event is the openness of participants to share the good and the challenging issues facing us as a print industry. It is not a Canon sales event, with very little focus on Canon products (prospective customers are invited to learn more about Canon products at the Inkjet Insider event held a day prior at the Customer Innovation Center a few …

Attendees networked, shared best practices, and enhanced their inkjet expertise during this landmark event. Post-event surveys rated thINK Ahead 2024 as one of the best in its 10-year history, with attendees describing it as "Excellent," "Energetic," "Engaging," "Top Notch," "Outstanding," and "Time Well Spent."   BOCA RATON, FL., July 31, 2024 – thINK , an independent community of Canon production inkjet customers, announced that nearly 500 Canon inkjet customers, partners and print industry experts came together for the 10th anniversary of the annual inkjet conference, thINK Ahead, to reconnect, share best practices, and enhance their inkjet expertise. thINK Ahead 2024, held July 15-17, 2024, at The Boca Raton in Boca Raton, Florida, is known as a premier event where Canon production inkjet customers come together for three days of inspiration, education, and networking. …

From thINK Ahead 2024 Partner Crawford Technologies Workflow normalization, a term akin to the long-established practice of data normalization in database management, is emerging as a revolutionary approach to handling high-volume transactional communications within enterprises. Traditionally, such communications involve diverse data streams encompassing formats like PDF, AFP, PS, PCL and legacy Xerox data files. The inherent challenge lies in the unique nature of each piece of communication—think marketing collateral, compliance mailings, letters or bills—each with its distinct layout, pages and information. While this diversity has historically posed challenges for legacy systems, modern intelligent workflow strategies pivot toward identifying commonalities among documents. Regardless of their specific content, every document shares fundamental attributes, such as paper size, address, account or recipient identification numbers, and various audit identifiers like barcodes or IMBs. …

Sepp Herberger, the coach of the West German national soccer team that won the World Cup in 1954, was well-known for saying, “Nach dem Spiel ist vor dem Spiel,” which translates to “After the game is before the game.” What he meant was that the preparation for the next game begins as soon as the previous game is over. Herberger’s quote has even been applied (quite aptly, I think) to the recently concluded drupa trade show (May 28th to June 7th, 2024 in Düsseldorf, Germany): “After drupa is before drupa.” Exhibitors now have four years in which to make their plans for the next drupa in 2028.     The good news for those of us in North America is that many of those same exhibitors from drupa will be showing their latest developments in the United States before long. One important show to mark on your calendars is the  Printing United Expo in Las Vegas (September 10th to 12th, 2024).   drupa 2024 By the Numbers drupa’s influence on the printing industry is undeniable. Also undeniable is …