With Xplor joining the AIIM/On Demand partnership, the conference in Boston will be one of the most impressive industry events of 2008.

By Bob Neubauer

THE AIIM/On Demand Conference & Expo is shaping up to be the event of the year for in-plants. Not only will the show feature its usual impressive spread of digital printing equipment and software, but the AIIM/On Demand educational seminars will be augmented by a separate educational program from Xplor International. Xplor will hold its Global Conference in conjunction with On Demand for the first time this year.

While On Demand is offering some 55 sessions, keynotes and tutorials, Xplor’s Document University will include 20 courses comprising 150 educational classes. Plus, AIIM has its own set of sessions covering topics like enterprise content management. Put this together with the 400+ vendors spread across the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, and you get one serious graphic arts event. The sheer scope of AIIM/On Demand/Xplor is even stealing attention from Drupa, taking place three months later.

Returning to Boston this year, On Demand will take place March 3-6. Organizers are expecting more than 10,000 visitors (last year the final count was more like 25,000).

Since this is always a big show for in-plants, IPG is hosting an in-plant luncheon/roundtable to give managers a chance to compare notes and discuss some of the technologies they see at the show. (For details e-mail BobNeubauer@NAPCO.com.)

The On Demand Schedule

On Demand’s keynote sessions are always well attended. On the docket this year:

n Charles Pesko, Jr., the founder of the On Demand show and president of InfoTrends, will deliver the State of the Industry Address, “From Print to Marketing Service Provider.”

n David Pogue, best-selling author and New York Times columnist, will discuss why “software rage” has become an epidemic and how the problem is the software design itself.

n Two-time Republican Presidential candidate Patrick J. Buchanan will join Newsweek’s Howard Fineman on a panel called “Reflections on Super Tuesday: What’s at Stake & What’s to Come.”

n InfoTrends’ Jim Hamilton will moderate a panel entitled “Emerging Technologies and What to Expect in 2008.” It will include panelists from HP, InfoPrint Solutions, Eastman Kodak, Océ and Xerox.

n Barb Pellow, of InfoTrends, will moderate a keynote panel on “The Changing Media Mix: A Marketing Perspective.”

Some of the other topics to be covered in On Demand sessions include:

n High-volume Print Engines for the Transpromo Market

n Expanding Into the Mail Industry: 10 Steps to Success

n Cut-sheet Ink-jet Digital Printing Challenges the Color Toner Market

n Security-enabled Printing

n Fulfillment: How to Get Started

n Front Ends as System Differentiators

n Storefront Printing and Signage

n Marketing Your Mailing Services

n Conceptions of Quality for Color Reproduction

n Digital Book Production

n Getting the Most Out of Print MIS

n Super Efficiency: Enabling In-plant Growth

n Transpromo Makes a Statement

n Web-to-Print

n The Changing Face of In-plants

n Maximize Postage Savings with Mailpiece Design

n To Outsource or Not to Outsource?

n The pURL: Gimmick or Gem?

n Building a Transpromo Campaign

n Top 10 Mistakes in Transpromo and How to Avoid Them

n Transpromo: The User Experience

n Unusual Substrates for Unique Print Applications

n Web-to-Print Networks: Portal to the World

Get more details, including dates and times, at:

www.ondemandexpo.com

On the Xplor Side

Most of the courses offered by Xplor will run a full day and are made up of multiple classes. Here’s a quick look at some of the topics:

n Fundamentals of Document Production

n Making Sound Technology Decisions

n Document, Statement and Transpromo Reengineering

n Improve Productivity and Reduce Costs

n AFP 101: A Functional Perspective

n Executive Technology Panels: Software Directions

n Information Design for Business Professionals

n Making Jobs Run Better with PDF and PostScript

n Trans Meets Promo: Transforming Transaction
Documents into Marketing Opportunity

n Using PDF for Variable Data and Transactional Documents

n Advanced AFP: The Masters of AFP

n Business Challenges of the 21st Century

n Mail in the Middle

n Making Color Work: The Technical Side of Color Printing

n Process Automation in Digital Printing

n Reliable End-to-end PDF Print Publishing Workflows

n Emerging Technologies

n Integrating the Web into Your Document and Support Systems

Read more details about the Xplor program at:

www.xplor.org/xdu2008/Agenda/DCdesc.cfm

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Bob has served as editor of In-plant Impressions since October of 1994. Prior to that he served for three years as managing editor of Printing Impressions, a commercial printing publication. Mr. Neubauer is very active in the U.S. in-plant industry. He attends all the major in-plant conferences and has visited more than 180 in-plant operations around the world. He has given presentations to numerous in-plant groups in the U.S., Canada and Australia, including the Association of College and University Printers and the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association. He also coordinates the annual In-Print contest, co-sponsored by IPMA and In-plant Impressions.

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