James Holder Email & Phone Number

Hello, I am James, and I am a print geek. For me, a fun day is watching pieces of paper flow through a device with an image on it. I get overly excited talking about how to fold, crease, and score a piece of paper. But, when I see a printed piece with a QR code, my eyes get wide. I can't resist clicking, scanning the QR code, and praying I land on a pUrl. Furthermore, my family gets concerned about my excitement level if that printed piece has an augmented reality experience married to it.I do take breaks! I love annoying my wife with dance parties with my Grandangel and dog, Heschel Dooley (figure that name out). There isn't anything like music up loud, a barking dog, and me getting the little one amped up; yes, there is usually chocolate involved.Let me share with you my story of an embarrassing addiction. It started simple in grade school. Memeorgraph! There wasn't anything I loved more than the look of the fuzzy blue text. It was incredibly satisfying when it was so fresh that it was cool to the touch.I progressed to carbon paper. I would even scribble all over the back of a sheet of paper to make my own! The satisfaction of being able to replicate text was exciting.I took a break to join the Army; okay, I sort of stopped cold turkey; however, it didn't last. I started volunteering for details after hours and on the weekend because it meant I got access to the copier. Ask me about the time we rigged a big copier to be dropped out of an airplane on a jump.After the Army, I tried to avoid reprographics, but it was of no use. After a few years as a program and athletic director for the Boys Clubs of America, I started hanging with the wrong people, and it led to a spiral for me. I became a copier salesman.As the industry evolved, it only got worse for me. First, the equipment got faster and faster. Then color became readily available.Recently it has gotten hardcore with the addition of digital print embellishment. So now I have been exposed to foil and varnish without dies!Print has been a gateway drug for and no turning back. Web2print, VDP, augmented reality, and omnichannel marketing solutions, there is so much available. But, unfortunately, no one offers a twelve-step program, and there aren't any print clinics for print rehab. So I am doomed to the life of a print geek.Just think, people say that print is dead.

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  Columbus State University