Print Solutions Magazine - September 2008: 433 East Monroe

You can learn a lot of things sitting at your desk--which company won 11 PEAK Awards this year, for example. You can read about 10 new products in the print industry (on page 41) and discover how to get FSC-certified (on page 11).

But if you never left your desk, you wouldn't get to touch those 12 award-winning solutions The Flesh Company produced. You couldn't take home a sample of Ennis' new security checks or hear a distributor talk about going green.

If you head to PSDA's Print Solutions Conference & Expo, Oct. 23 through 25 in Baltimore, however, you'll get to do all of those things--and many more.

You'll find energy and ideas to help you gain accounts, improve your skills and find creative ways to solve clients' problems. You'll be attending the premier trade show in our industry segment, and meeting the movers and shakers who make it great.

This year, you'll find more than 30 Idea Exchange Centers on the Expo floor. They're hour-long discussions hosted by fellow distributors and industry gurus to help you design better variable campaigns, specify commercial printing and more.

Nearly everyone I've met who's successful in this industry--including Mike Fisher, the new president of PSDA (profiled on page 21), Tim McClellan, a D.C.-based small distributor, and all the sales reps in between--has achieved great heights with the insight and advice of other people. And they continue that success, they tell me, based on the strength of their personal connection to other industry players.

But don't take my word for it. Join Mike, Tim, 250 exhibitors and more than 1,300 print professionals in Baltimore and ask them yourself.

Editor’s Note: The PEAK Awards are in no way associated with, endorsed by or otherwise sponsored by PEAK Technologies Inc. PEAK Technologies and the company’s PEAK logo are registered trademarks of PEAK Technologies Inc.

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Magazine Staff Wins Six National Awards
Print Solutions Magazine and PrintSolutionsMag.com were recognized with three national awards by the American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE). The ASBPE contest attracted more than 2,300 entries. Awards are presented at two competitive levels: regional and national.

The publications staff was also honored with three APEX Awards for publication excellence, sponsored by publications consulting firm Communication Concepts Inc. Print Solutions boasts 108 awards over 19 consecutive years.

Art Director/Production Manager Roxanne Rash won a silver ASBPE for the April 2007 cover, "Protect Your Documents or Else!" She was also honored for the redesign of the e-newsletter Print Matters, now called Print Solutions Weekly, by APEX. This is Roxanne's 32nd award at Print Solutions.

Webmaster Mike White, Roxanne Rash and former Print Matters Editor Preeti Vasishtha won a silver ASBPE for the redesigned Print Matters, and the team was also recognized by APEX for the "Most Improved" newsletter.

Managing Editor Rebecca Trela won a bronze for her three-part series about Tim McClellan, beginning in the June 2007 issue, which also won an APEX award.

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