Dan Marx

Dan Marx

Dan Marx, Content Director for Wide-Format Impressions, holds extensive knowledge of the graphic communications industry, resulting from his more than three decades working closely with business owners, equipment and materials developers, and thought leaders.

Checking Back in on the Paper Supply Shortage Impacting Printers

Back in February, I had the pleasure of speaking with three commercial printing providers to see how they were experiencing, and what they were doing to mitigate the effect of, the ongoing paper shortage. That piece, “Printing Companies Share Their Experiences with Paper Shortages and What They're Doing in Response”, was featured in Printing Impressions...

StickerGiant: The Benefits of Focus

As a business, StickerGiant has a lot going for it, and one of the biggest things is its focus. As one of the more prominent sticker and label producers in the United States, the Longmont, Colorado-based company is focused on a space that bridges the divide between B2B and B2C accounts...

Tips from Trainers on Breaking the Digital Printing Sales Roadblock Among Your Older Salespeople

Amid the many opportunities digital printing can bring to commercial printing operations, and among the investments companies have made in technology, one weak link in the chain of success exists in sales. Simply put, digital printing sales is different – especially for print sales professionals who “came up” selling traditional printing. Who better to talk…

Is It Time to Buy, Sell, or Hold? M&A Activity & the COVID Effect

Everything stopped — for a while. Amid the chaos of a worldwide pandemic, and along with the rise and fall recovery that is still our collective reality, printing industry mergers and acquisitions are back on track. According to those experts who specialize in M&A transactions, sales and purchases today are...

Dignity & Purpose: Hiring People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Amid a widely-reported worker shortage, companies across industries and in the service sector are having difficulty adding employees to match the increased business of the post-pandemic economic resurgence. Among those communities from which workers could be drawn are people with intellectual or developmental disabilities...

5 Ways PSPs Are Supporting Their Business Communities

During the early days of the COVID-19 crisis, many printing companies scrambled successfully to be designated as essential businesses. For the future of many of these businesses, this was a life or death move...