Digital Printing-Toner - Cut Sheet (Color)

Fox Valley Technical College held its first Open House and Technology Expo on May 24, in partnership with Ricoh Business Solutions. Nearly 100 attendees from 44 statewide organizations, including commercial printers and in-plant professionals, came to view the facility, get personal tours and attend sessions on digital printing, industry trends and workflow.

Thomas Lecy, supervisor of Printing Services at Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne, has a plan for the student interns at his in-plant: he wants to train them well on all the aspects of the in-plant, including the new Ricoh Pro C901s his shop just acquired. That way when they graduate they will have marketable skills beyond their degree.

As he sat on the edge of his seat at the IPMA awards banquet last month, watching the video that would reveal the non-offset Best of Show winner, Jimmy Friend tried to stay calm. But after seeing piece after excellent piece get eliminated until only the University of North Texas and Briggs & Stratton were still standing, his heart began to race.

When Printing and Mailing Services Director Glenn Strause heard about an in-plant using photo kiosks, he thought it was a great idea—just not the right idea for Lehigh.

Dozens of Philadelphia-area printers, including several in-plant managers, turned out for the grand opening of the new Xerox Color Innovation Center in Cherry Hill, NJ.

BYU's Print and Mail Production Center (PMPC) opened its photo book operation by "kind of hand-assembling" books, according to Assistant Director Thomas Roylance. But the in-plant quickly recognized the need for a true production solution.

When Simon Fraser University's in-plant introduced photo books in September 2009, its original goal was to create more demand for graphic color work.

When Citrus College’s Reprographics department began offering photo printing services, it initially generated prints from its Xerox iGen3, which the shop installed in August 2006. The following year, the in-plant acquired a Kodak GS4 Compact picture kiosk.

When Graph Expo 2011 kicks off in Chicago on September 11, in-plant managers who walk the floor at McCormick Place will notice one big difference from last year: the resurgence of offset printing. True, there were presses at last year's show, most notably in Presstek's booth. But three offset giants—Heidelberg USA, Komori America and Mitsubishi Lithographic Presses—all chose to sit that show out.

IPG recently attended the grand opening of the new Xerox Color Innovation Center in Cherry Hill, N.J., along with several local in-plant managers. The 1,729-square-foot center, just outside of Philadelphia, boasts a spacious demo area with numerous innovative color products on display.