Digital Printing-Toner - Cut Sheet (Color)

WHEN GARRY Boytos arrived at the University of Texas Health Science Center's in-plant (UT Print) in 2008, he faced a challenging situation. Boytos knew that to effectively compete with outside vendors, UT Print would have to make a lot of improvements.

In the summer of 2010, Leslie Rutledge moved from her position at San Diego State University, where she was manager of ReproGraphics, to head up the Graphic Services department at Brown University, in Providence, R.I. "Prior to my arrival, the university had undergone a reorganization, which had to be completed by June 30th," Rutledge says. Targeting redundancy, the university was combining administrative services to achieve greater efficiencies.

With the retirement of his offset pressman last August, Mike Ford, Print Services manager at Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas, decided to retire his offset presses as well. “We are going through some really tough financial times here in Texas with our higher education system, and when my pressman told me that he was retiring, I knew that we would not be able to replace him,” Ford points out. “There are just not a lot of offset pressmen or bindery operators in this area.”

With just a two-color offset press and a Xerox DocuColor 2045 for producing color work, University of Regina Printing Services was outsourcing a lot of jobs. But after installing a Kodak NexPress 2500 SE digital press, the in-plant started printing that work in-house.

JUDGING BY the number of in-plant managers walking the Graph Expo show floor last month, there are quite a few in-plants itching to leave the recession behind and get busy adding equipment. The show gave them plenty to ogle, too, particularly in the inkjet arena.

WAYNE FRENCH didn't need a crystal ball to see what was coming. With two Shinohara presses, his in-plant at Ithaca College was proficient at churning out long runs of materials for the 119-year-old private school. The trouble was, these pieces were largely being warehoused, where many became outdated before they could be used.

IPG checked out the most innovative products at Graph Expo 2011. Here, Editor Bob Neubauer chats with Frances Cicogna of Canon about the new imagePRESS C7010VPS, which teams Canon's offset-like 1,200-dpi resolution with Océ PRISMAsync workflow, and offers up to eight hours of plan-ahead production.

Graph Expo was noticeably more busy this year, due in part to a surge in attendance by in-plant managers. These videos will give you a sense of what it was like.

IPG checked out some of the most innovative products at Graph Expo 2011. Here, Editor Bob Neubauer chats with Giselle de la Moriniere about the features of MGI's Meteor DP8700XL, which prints on paper, plastic and envelopes at sizes up to 13x40˝ using oil-free dry toner.

IPG checked out some of the most innovative products at Graph Expo 2011. Here, Editor Bob Neubauer chats with Aanand Parthasarathi of Xerox about the new CiPress 500 waterless inkjet system.