Since installing a Screen Truepress Jet520 in December 2012, G&C Direct Mail Marketing in Dallas, can print five million pieces filled with color text and graphics targeted to recipients and switch to a different 1,000-piece project on demand. “Within the next year, this machine will grow our company to the level of a $15 million company,” said Fernando Guzman, president.
The end of a lease is always a good time for reassessment. So when it came time to replace the Xerox DocuTech 6180 at University of Arkansas PMC Solutions, the 45-employee print and mail operation also turned its eyes on its six-year-old iGen3.
The World Bank’s Printing & Multimedia Services operation has become one of the first in-plants to install a production inkjet press. Last month, the 42-employee in-plant fired up an HP T230 Color Inkjet Web Press in its Landover, Md., facility, 11 miles away from downtown Washington, D.C. With duplex printing speeds of 400 feet per minute, the inkjet press is a quantum leap over the speeds of the in-plant’s two Kodak NexPress 3000s and Océ ColorStream 10000. In fact, the first job run on the T230—800 copies of a 92-page book—would normally have taken up to eight hours to print.
Provost Academy, a network of online public high schools serving grades 9 through 12, worked with Barnett Murphy Direct Marketing (BMDM), to create a cross-media campaign to address both students and parents. The campaign was the most successful direct marketing effort in Provost Academy’s history.
The HP Indigo 10000 digital press debuted at drupa 2012 and underwent beta testing by 10 PSPs across the globe beginning in September 2012. Many of the beta customers, including Courier, Pureprint Group and Sandy Alexander, are considering adding a second unit. Installation of production units are expected to start this month.
The Vatican has completed the installation of a Meteor DP8700 XL digital press within its in-plant production house (known as Tipografia Vaticana). The in-plant print's everything from magazines to brochures and all of the Vatican’s stationary and envelopes, as well as the weekly newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano.
Manulife Financial needed an on-demand fulfillment solution that would convert its standard kits to digital kits. By working with Distributech, all of Manulife's kit components were converted into PDFs and every kit order was processed through a composition tool to build a highly personalized kit containing all the necessary components.
Attendee turnout at the 2013 Dscoop Annual Conference that ran February 21-23 at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel and Convention Center in Nashville, TN, marked a 30 percent increase in core North American attendees from last year’s event and included attendees from 38 countries around the world. In addition, 95 Partners participated in the Solutions Showcase exhibition.
After sending out an RFP last year, Document Solutions at The University of Texas at Austin added seven new Canon digital printers, plus a wide-format device.
More than 2,000 enthusiastic HP users packed the auditorium at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel and Convention Center in Nashville, TN last month for the opening of the eighth annual Dscoop conference. The three-day meeting included scores of educational sessions geared toward HP users, as well as an exhibit area with nearly 100 partners showing equipment and software designed to work with HP equipment.
