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'Finding the New Profit Path for Print'

October 2005
Join a Graphic All-Star team for a one and a half day conference discussing facts, trends and forecasts invaluable to printing, publishing and converting professionals. The 25th annual PRINT OUTLOOK® conference, sponsored by NPES the Association for Suppliers of Printing, Publishing and Converting Technologies, will be held December 1-2, 2005 at the Hilton Arlington in Arlington, Virginia. The program is packed with cutting-edge presentations and panel discussions by economists, advertisers, market experts, political analysts, printers and other industry leaders.

Register at www.npes.org/conferences/register.pdf before October 28 and receive a $50 Early Bird discount. Room reservations with the NPES block should be made directly with the Hilton Arlington Hotel at 800-695-7487 before October 28.

Program Highlights:

• Former Michigan Governor John Engler, now President of the National Association of Manufacturers will keynote the conference, sharing his views on the future of manufacturing in the United States and global economies;

• A presentation on the latest trends in Advertising by Brian Wieser, Vice President and Director of Industry Analysis with MAGNA Global USA, one of the world's largest media service firms;

• A presentation on "The New Medium of Print: Material Communication in the Internet Age" by Frank Cost, Professor of Digital Publishing and Printing in the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences at the Rochester Institute of Technology;

• Political analysis by featured luncheon speaker Norman Ornstein, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and noted political commentator, electoral analyst and author;

• Economic forecasting by NPES Consulting Economist Michael K. Evans;

• An update on postal reform by Conference Chairman C. Clint Bolte, a leading printing industry consultant and author;

•Two professional panels of leading printing and converting company executives, sharing their market expertise and insights into such topics as diversification of services , facing competition overseas, transforming new technology investments into profits and much more;

• A panel of late-breaking trends in advertising that affect print in direct mail, magazines, catalogs and newspapers.

Registration materials and additional details are available on the NPES web site,

www.npes.org/conferences/index.html. For more information contact the Membership Services Department at 703/264-7200, or e-mail clhawkins@npes.org
 

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