Daniel Dejan

Daniel Dejan brings 30+ years of experience as an award-winning graphic designer, art director and print production manager to his current role as National Print & Creative Specialist at Sappi Fine Paper. There, he provides value-added marketing, sales and technical consultation as well as conducting internal and external educational programs.

Frank Romano, Keynote Speaker

Ask the leading print experts who they look up to and one name comes up again and again: Frank Romano. He's the mastermind behind the industry's indispensable Pocket Pal. The editor of the definitive Encyclopedia of Graphic Communication. The author of 44 books, including the first works on Quark, InDesign, PDF, digital printing, multi-media and more. He has started nine magazines, written more than 4,000 articles and his writing has been translated into Russian, Chinese, Arabic, French, German and Spanish.

After many years in publishing, Frank joined RIT as a visiting professor. The one-year appointment turned into 14 years. He began the world's first online Master of Science degree in printing and pioneered new curriculum in digital printing and workflow.

Today, as RIT Professor Emeritus, he travels the world (by car, train and ship because he does not fly) and lectures extensively. He has spoken before almost every club, association, and organization in the graphic arts. He also teaches every quarter at RIT. He taught two courses last winter at Cal Poly in California. He is teaching a distance course right now at NYU. He gives presentations in Australia, Germany, Sweden, Iceland, and other places using video transmission.

What's the best way to know who Frank Romano is? Try Googling him. There are 6 million hits, but you have to get through the Australian motivational speaker, the karate master, and the tattoo artist first. You discover a body of work that reveres the history of the industry and looks to its future. He wrote the first report on on-demand printing in 1978 and promoted most of the new technologies of the industry long before they were new.

Frank has been quoted in almost every major newspaper, on radio and TV, and the trade press. He has contributed to the graphic communication industry by educating students and users and publishers and printers and creatives - and anyone else involved in the printed word and the pixel word.

He began in the age of hot metal and now works in the age of heavy metal. When it comes to printing and publishing, Frank Romano has been there, done that. Today, he works smack dab at the juncture of the wide web press and the world wide web.

His insights matter - perhaps more than anyone else in the industry.

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Margie Dana

Margie Dana, the founder of Boston Print Buyers, is a former print buyer who turned her passion for printing into a print consulting business. She writes her popular Print Tip column every week to help build bridges between printers and their customers. Today it's read worldwide by more than 3000 subscribers worldwide.

Margie's a sought-after speaker at trade shows and conferences both here and abroad. She's written dozens of articles on printing and has published her first book, "Put It on Paper! Every Person's Guide to the Printing Industry."

Lewis Fix

Lewis Fix is the Director of Business Development for Domtar, North America's third largest producer of printing, publishing, consumer and specialty papers. He has spoken throughout North America on FSC certification, corporate and NGO relationships, and sustainability in the paper and forest products industry.

Christine Erna

As Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Fulfillment Plus Mailing Solutions, Inc., Christine is responsible for Sales, Business Development, Client Relations Management and Marketing programs. She collaborates with new clients to ensure project completion regarding schedules and effectiveness.

Additionally, Christine presents educational seminars to clients, prospects and partners on a wide range of topics within the direct mail arena. She has been a guest speaker and presented educational seminars within the direct marketing industry at various events, conferences and tradeshows including New England Direct Marketing Association, PINE, and the National Postal Forum.

Martin Hensel

President of Texterity, Inc., Martin Hensel has worked in electronic publishing for 25 years and is widely known for his expertise in XML content production. As founder of LaserData, he was an early pioneer in videodisc and CD-ROM publishing. In 1991, he founded Texterity, which provides digital edition services for more than 300 magazines serving consumer, trade and corporate markets.

Robert McClements

Robert McClements is managing director of Grange Consulting and founding senior executive of PrintYorkshire, a partnership representing 20,000 employees in 1,500 businesses with revenues greater than £3 billion. He has been a managing director of a broad range of print companies in PoP, lithography and newspapers and his international experience includes joint ventures in Europe and the Middle East.

Jack Miller

Known as "The Paper Guru," Jack writes regularly for Canadian Printer Magazine and is Senior Consultant, North America, for Pira International, a leader in paper, print and packaging consulting. He is the author of the Risi study, "Trend Price and the Earnings of North American Paper Producers," and has presented on paper-related topics to numerous conferences.

Chris Smith

An Adobe Certified Expert in Acrobat and one of the world's leading authorities on the program, Chris Smith is the author of many Acrobat books including Teach Yourself Adobe Acrobat in 24 Hours and Real World Adobe Acrobat. He is the CEO of the American Graphics Institute, the largest provider of PDF training services in North America, and has personally led training sessions to more than 5,000 attendees.

Chris Wells

As the president and CEO of LaVigne Inc., Christopher Wells oversees one of the largest independently owned commercial printing companies in New England and one of the top 50 digital printing companies in the world. In addition, he is a member of the board of directors for the Printing Industries of New England, the Hewlett Packard Digital Printing Advisory Council and other leading industry organizations.

Scott Dubois

Scott is currently the Cross-Media Specialist at Reynolds DeWalt, where he is responsible for the implementation of variable data and cross-media campaigns. In addition, he provides product support for the sales team and is involved in business growth strategies. Scott has an extensive background in information technology and serves as a resource for many companies in the digital printing marketplace. He frequently speaks nationally on the topics of variable data, digital printing, and hybrid-workflow solutions. He has special interest in cross-media utilization as a delivery track.

Jill Connolly

Jill Alex Connolly has worked in the graphics industry for 20 years, nearly all of which have been in a print buying capacity. As Manager of Corporate Communications at Analog Devices, she heads up a 34-person staff. Although much of what is produced now gets posted to the Web, Jill's group purchases approximately $1.2 million in print annually.

In her tenure at Analog Devices, Jill has seen the company's revenues double to $2.4 billion. ADI's core analog and digital signal processing technology enables a wide diversity of applications in virtually every end market, including digital cameras, cell phones, PCs, ultrasound equipment, and cars. ADI has more than 75 sales offices around the world, including Europe and Asia.

"Pulling Off the Gloves"

Karen Casale, Print Production Specialist, Talbots

For the last 6 years, Karen has been a Print Production Specialist at Talbots, a major retailer, producing collateral for the stores (window banners, store signage, direct mail announcement cards and postcards). Before that, she was with book publishers Little, Brown & Co., for 15 years, producing law and medical books. For many of those years, Karen was the Production Manager. In addition, she worked briefly at Lotus/IBM for 3 years, producing software packaging. Karen's an '82 graduate of Saint Anselm College, and she also studied abroad at Wroxton College in Oxfordshire (UK) as an undergrad.

Diane Dragoff, Purchasing Manager, United Way of Massachusetts Bay

Diane is the Purchasing Manager for United Way of Mass Bay in Boston. She has worked in jobs covering the gamut of the graphics career spectrum. A teacher and fine artist by training, Diane learned the arts of paste-up, type design, sign painting and photo styling and worked as a freelance designer and production manager. Diane started buying design services, photography, and printing in the 80s for a real estate investment company. Her printing plant experiences were at Dynagraf and at Daniels Printing. She currently oversees the purchasing of everything from pencils to hospitality services for UWMB.

Greg Mroczek, Manufacturing Manager, Harvard Business School Publishing

Greg is the Manufacturing Manager at Harvard Business School Publishing. He graduated from Columbia College in Chicago with a degree in communications and has spent his entire career in the information industry. For the past 18 years, he has purchased print services for Boston-area publishers.

Arlene Ouellette, Director of Marketing Operations, Brookstone

As a lifelong resident of New Hampshire, Mrs. Ouellette has enjoyed working for New England-based companies her entire career. She found a love for the ever-changing and challenging world of print production and has been involved printing since 1986. Over the past 20 years, Arlene has produced product packaging, catalogs, direct mail, retail signage and all sorts of collateral. Having a deep desire to travel, Arlene has found qualifying vendors and attending press checks throughout North America to be a tremendous opportunity. She joined Brookstone - specialty retailer and product developer - in 1994, and assumed her current role as Director of Marketing Operations in 2001. It's a diverse role, including financial and project management as well as print production, keeping each day fresh and exciting.

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Game Show Contestants - Press Checkers 2006!

Team Buyers:

Diane "I dare you to stump me" Dragoff
United Way of Massachusetts Bay

Diane is the Purchasing Manager for United Way of Massachusetts Bay in Boston. She has worked in jobs covering the gamut of the graphics career spectrum. A teacher and fine artist by training, Diane learned the arts of paste-up, type design, sign painting and photo styling and worked as a freelance designer and production manager. Diane started buying design services, photography, and printing in the 80s for a real estate investment company. Her printing plant experiences were at Dynagraf and at Daniels Printing. She currently oversees the purchasing of everything from pencils to hospitality services for UWMB.

Mark "Been there, done that" Hoffman
WGBH

Mark's been a print buyer and print production coordinator at WGBH since 1992. Prior to coming to WGBH, he worked in a variety of graphic arts settings in the Boston area. He began his career in the graphic arts as an offset press operator, was then an offset stripper, taught printing at Boston English High School, was a printing estimator at the printing offices of Harvard University and MIT, and was a book production planner at Arcata Graphics/Halliday and Courier-Stoughton. He's also a freelance proofreader.

Greg "Smarty Pants" Mroczek
Harvard Business School Publishing

Greg is the Manufacturing Manager at Harvard Business School Publishing. He graduated from Columbia College in Chicago with a degree in communications and has spent his entire career in the information industry. For the past 18 years, he has purchased print services for Boston-area publishers.

Tom "Pixabyte" Pixton
MIT Publishing Services Bureau

Tom worked as a customer service rep, planner, estimator, typesetter, copy editor, designer, buyer, and Mac addict for various Boston-area offset print shops before moving into higher ed, first at Harvard's in-house printing office, and then, since 1999, at MIT's Publishing Services Bureau, where he has added system administrator to his various hats.

Team Printers:

Debbie Bento, Alliance Print Group
Gina Deschamps, Sales & Marketing Manager, Deschamps Printing
Kurt Muller, GM, Winthrop Printing
Bob Quinlan, President, UniGraphic

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