More Commentary on PRINT 13

So after last week’s blog went out I got a call from Ralph Nappi, president of NPES, the organization that runs the PRINT and GRAPH EXPO trade shows. The call was not unexpected and I was not surprised to learn that Ralph disagreed with some of my comments, but we had a great call about the show.

He largely agreed with my thoughts about the flow of traffic on the show floor and we both bemoaned the way traffic tends to fall off on Wednesday afternoon and that the final day remains a challenge—as it does at most trade shows. NPES had actually reduced the length of the show from a planned six or seven days to the five days it actually ran, based on the input of many vendors. I remember when the show ran for seven days, but those were very different times in a much different industry, that needed a larger show.