March Meeting Recap

CVS 2003 a huge success!

The 5th annual CVS was a phenomenal success! The APALA partied like the Golden Globes, thanks to a serendipitous last minute venue change to the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton. Chairwoman Paurvi Trivedi and her legion of faithful volunteers turned the International Ballroom into a production resource paradise. On display were the latest technologies in lenticular displays from Dynamic Images and unique presentation materials from C&S Sales.

While the membership commenced on the Scavenger hunt, along the way they were treated to such luscious treats as hand dipped chocolate strawberries from Anderson Printing, elegant gift bag sets from Fraser Papers, insulated commuter mugs from Continental Colorcraft, and light up pens from Creo were just some of the SWAG. Scavenger hunt participants were challenged to find a variety of items among the vendor booths to complete the hunt. Every participant that completed the hunt received a Starbuck’s gift card. The lucky grand prize winner of a Kodak Digital camera was Jenny Allen from DIRECTV. The camera was generously donated by Kodak Polychrome. As the evening closed with coffee and dessert service – for those that hadn’t completely filled up on the coconut shrimp - members had confirmed that they were in a great mood by checking the mood rings passed out by Domtar papers. Another year, another bag of cool stuff!

The APALA thanks the following people for making the 2003 CVS a huge success:

Paurvi Trivedi, Chair, Curved Space Creative, Inc.

Trish Carpico, Unisource

Michelle Eatough, Effective Graphics, Inc.

Lynne Gullo, The NBC Agency

Fred Hecht, Creative Product Consultants

Laura Reda, DIRECTV

Gerhard Runken, Automation Taft

Thank you to the following people and vendors who contributed time and donations to make this evening a success:

Ross Berlanga, GCube Designs

Alan J. Bernstein, Pace Lithographers Inc.

Nan Faessler, Kirk

Kari Fry, Fox River Paper Co.

Edie Gelardi, GP Color Imaging

Tim O’Connor, Bullseye Imaging

Henry W. Perez, Bullseye Imaging

Neil Prehmus, APALA President

And of course our exhibitors:

Anderson Lithograph

Anderson Printing

Appleton Coated

Applied Graphics Technologies

Bullseye Imaging

C & S Sales

ColorGraphics

Color Image Printing

Continental Colorcraft

Coyle Reproductions

Creo America’s, Inc.

Domtar

Dynamic Images

Effective Graphics, Inc.

Fox River Paper Co.

Fraser Papers

Gangi Studios Inc.

Grafico Inc.

graphic press, Inc.

Image Options Inc.

Imagic, Inc.

Insync.Media

International Color Posters

Kirk

Kodak Polychrome Graphics

Kubin-Nicholson Corp.

The Lehigh Press

Lithographix, Inc.

MetroMedia Technologies

Mohawk Paper Mills

Morrison & Burke

National Print Group

Nationwide Papers

Navigator Press

Neenah Paper

Penn Litho

Powerhouse Electronic Imaging

Primary Color - Los Angeles

George Rice & Sons

Rocket Studio

Sandy Alexander

Serigraph

Southern California Graphics

Structural Graphics

SuperColor Digital

UltraGraphics

Vision Envelope & Printing

Wam!Net

Wright Graphics, Inc.