Digital Printing-Toner - Cut Sheet (Color)

Four years after installing a Kodak NexPress 2500 digital color press, University of Oklahoma Printing & Mailing Services has just upgraded to a NexPress SX3300. The new digital press brings a 31 percent boost in speed, improved quality output and a new set of ink solutions that will allow the 94-employee in-plant to produce scores of specialty applications.

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.

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.

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.

As a Landa technology fan, Cheryl Kahanec, executive vice president of EarthDigital, was impressed and excited when she was approached by two of Landa's executives in late 2011. EarthColor signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to purchase an unspecified number of Landa Nanographic Printing presses.

Tight budgets in Louisiana and the need for more on-demand printing have compelled the Office of State Printing to slim down and digitize. The slimming down came in October when staff reductions brought the Baton Rouge operation down to 20 full-time employees plus five student workers. The transition from offset to digital technologies followed closely after.