Industry Veteran Awarded Life Time Achievement

Art Diamond, a 58-year veteran of the imaging industry, was awarded Life Time Achievement on 2013 Toner Conference held on June 2-4 in Santa Barbara, California.

During the three days events, the 2013 Toner Conference addressed key issues facing the toner industry, including: the technological battle between inkjet- and toner–based imaging processes; specialty toners, color toners, bioresins for toner; recent patents, court actions; legal matters; government regulations; toner plant equipment; chemical toners; colorants, waxes, CCAs and other additives.

On the last day of the event, John Cooper, President of Toner Research Services, presented Diamond the Life Time Achievement with a nice plaque. The plaque reads: “Art Diamond-Your fellow associates and friends hereby honor your lifetime of dedication and service to the toner and imaging industry.”

Diamond commented on this, “I would never have stayed this long with the imaging industry if it weren’t for the people who built it and who I was able to work with. It was the satisfaction of meeting and resolving the many technical and marketing challenges presented. In short, it was always a labor of Love.”

Art Diamond is a 58-year veteran of the imaging industry, having worked in this field continuously since 1955. He is currently President of Diamond Research Corporation (DRC), a high technology chemical engineering consulting and marketing firm he formed in 1968. DRC specializes in dry toner formulation, production and marketing for its clients worldwide.

Prior to forming DRC, Diamond was engaged in research and development at Eastman Kodak’s Paper Service Division and at Kodak Research Laboratories in Rochester, New York from 1955 to 1960. He later was named Chief Chemist for the Times Facsimile Division of Litton Industries in New York City from 1960 to 1961.  This led to appointments as Research Manager at AM International in Mt. Prospect, IL from 1961 to 1967 and as Chief Chemist at Telautograph Corporation in Los Angeles.

For five years, Diamond served as President of the Los Angeles-based Consulting Chemists Association. He is a licensed Professional Engineer with a BS in chemical engineering from the Polytechnic University of New York in 1951, and an MS in chemical engineering from the University of Rochester, NY in 1958.

Diamond holds 15 US patents in the field of reprography.  He has authored more than 90 articles, talks and publications relating to imaging papers, marking materials and processes. He is Editor of the reference text, Handbook of Imaging Materials (Marcel Dekker, New York, Second Edition, 2002). He is also co-author of the chapter on “Copier Powders” that appears in Vol. 7: Powder Metallurgy of the Metals Handbook published by the American Society for Metals in 1984.

Diamond is known internationally as an expert on dry toner technology, having authored several focused studies in this field, including: Toner, Black Powder for an Exploding Market (1979), Toner Resins, Structure of the US Market (1987), Toner in the ‘90s (1991), and numerous other private marketing and technical reports on imaging papers, toner and developer materials.

Diamond is also a contributing editor to Recharge Asia magazine, a monthly periodical published for the toner and ink jet cartridge remanufacturing industry in both English and Chinese. In the 1990s, Diamond, cooperating with Mr. David Gibbons, pulled together the Australian Cartridge Remanufacturing Association (ACRA). For his contribution to the growth of that industry in Australia and New Zealand, ACRA recognized his work with an “Award of Honour for Pioneering Achievements in the Imaging Industry”.