Accelerate Profits with Pantone’s 2026 Color of the Year
Cloud Dancer’s barely‑there white means even minor shifts in stock shade, brighteners, or ink density can degrade output. Preventing that degradation will require printer providers to move beyond a CMYK focus to manage paper, ink, and lighting as a controlled system. This Perplexity research reviews strategies to leverage Cloud Dancer’s challenges and increase your company’s market share >.

How to Choose the Right AI Sales Assistant
Does your company need to increase the ROI on cost of sales? If so, it may be time to consider enhancing your sales team’s capabilities with an AI sales assistant. This article discusses AI-powered software tools to optimize the sales process. For a quick read, scroll down to the section titled “Features to Look for in an AI Sales Assistant >.”

People Management for Emerging Leaders
Profit depends on strong managers. Yet training often slips behind production demands. Wharton’s People Management for Emerging Leaders course equips rising managers with skills to boost productivity and profit at a cost lower than rerunning a job for an upset client. Read more >.

PrintTech: New Consolidator Shakes Up Print Industry
Consolidators continue expanding their print, packaging, carton, and label footprints. The Target Report provides details on the current consolidators’ direction and magnitude. Whether you consider consolidators as devils or angels, this report is well worth reading >.

We Didn’t Recognize…..We Were Honored….
Sid shares a reminder we all need: even in tough times, gratitude matters. His reflections on trust, resilience, and the people who stand with us invite us to pause, look around, and see the opportunities we might be missing. Discover the power of gratitude >.

Leadership Reset: Culture, Clarity, and 2026
If managers stay stuck in old habits, so will your profits. 2026 is the moment to rethink culture, sharpen skills, and lead with vision. Growth comes from change, and leadership must set the pace. Read to find out why 2026 may reward leaders who act now >.

Stop Hiring Humans
This is an article by the CEO of an AI company who used creatively worded printed signs to generate millions of digital impressions and $2M in new annual recurring revenue. His comments might help your sales team show clients how print messaging can help them stand out from the crowd and drive traffic to their digital platforms >.

Kevin Cooper
Kevin Cooper has returned to HP as a Sales Account Manager after a 16-year absence.

Mike Gibson
Mike Gibson has been appointed Head of Business Development at James Cropper Paper & Packaging.