Kym Conis, Assistant Director, Foil & Specialty Effects Association joins Chris Lyons, Publisher Packaging Design Magazine for an update on the FSEA. Kym shares some facts and conclusion from their recent studies about the impact of using foil and other effects on product sales and sustainability. Their studies proved that adding foil and specialty effects did little to compromise the environment when used in packaging, great news for the industry and designers.

FSEA also has a great glossary and how-to guide for designers, find out more at http://www.fsea.com

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Michael Abergel, Executive Vice President, MGI USA joins host Chris Lyons from Packaging Design Magazine for a demonstration of their new Jet Varnish Digital UV Spot Coater Inkjet. Michael explains printers are now able to easily offer spot varnish services to their clients at a low cost. Spot varnishing can applied in the design using simple layers in Photoshop, enhancing the finished piece and expanding the design opportunities for packaging and other print promotional pieces.

For more information visit: http://www.mgi-usa.com

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Peter Gabriele, Technical Director, ARMark Authentication Technologies, joins Chris Lyons of Packaging Design Magazine to explain the features and applications of their unique microtagging technology. Product counterfeiting is a huge problem to companies in a range of industries including food, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals. Peter describes ways to embed information, character, and brand marks into products or package design that make marking them invisible to the human eye, but easy to detect with a field microscope to determine if products are original or counterfeited.

For more information visit: http://www.rmark.org/

Anne-Marie "Her Geekness" Conception, Author/Trainer/Principal Seneca Design & Training joins hosts Scott Sheppard and Gene Gable for an update on her latest projects which include many popular classes available through Lynda.com. She also shares her insight and tips on web design, InDesign, and design. Learn more great tips at: http://www.senecadesign.com/designgeek/,
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Design News of the Week with Jay Nelson

Jay joins us this week to discuss some trends in newspaper publishing, Adobe’s first quarter results, some new products at The Power Exchange.

For more on Jay Nelson and his Design Tools topics visit: http://www.design-tools.com

Mark Priede, Regional Sales Manager, Xante joins host Scott Sheppard live from the Graphics of the Americas show to discuss how designers can benefit from printing in-house on their own short run color press. Today’s competitive design market requires creatives to meet fast turn-around times and expand their services. Imagine printing variable data jobs, business cards, envelopes, and other work on a variety of stock right from your office, starting under $10,000. Find out more at: http://www.xante.com.

Jeff Miller, Human Eyes and David Brody from 121 Digital join host Scott Sheppard live from Graphics of the Americas 2009 to discuss some of the projects they’ve done using Human Eyes and lenticular printing processes. David shares some tips on how he has expanded his business using this innovative print technology and shows off some examples and applications for the technique. To find out more visit: http://www.121digitalprinting.com/

Varaz Gharakhanian, Marketing Manager, 4over.com joins host Scott Sheppard from his booth at this year’s Graphics of the Americas conference to explain how designers can benefit from working with their high-volume print services. Varaz explains they recently launched a large format service and also have business affiliate programs available to designers so you can make money by reselling their print services along with creative design. For more information visit: http://www.4over.com.

Randy Anderson, Program Manager Software, Media, Color for Mutoh joins host Scott Sheppard to discuss how designers could get involved in the exciting field of vehicle wraps. Randy explains the process from using pre-defined vehicle templates compatible with most design applications which are output via a RIP to a large format printer such as Mutoh’s ValueJet series. For more information visit: http://www.mutoh.com.

Javier Gonzales, General Manager, Electro Sign Supply joins host Scott Sheppard live from his booth at Graphics of the Americas to discuss his range of LED Displays and large format Inkjet Printers. For more information visit: http://www.electrosignsupply.com/