Digital Printing-Toner - Cut Sheet (Color)

A printed piece from the University of North Texas was picked as Best of Show winner out of the digitally printed projects.

GALLUP PRIDES itself on its reputation for delivering "relevant, timely and visionary research on what people around the world think." To deliver much of that information, the 75-year-old organization depends on its 32-employee in-plant facility in Omaha, Neb.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison has been having great success providing variable data printing (VDP) with its Xerox iGen3. Now, thanks to a recent upgrade to an iGen4, the 42-employee in-plant will be able to provide that personalized printing at even better quality levels. In December, the operation installed an iGen4 digital color press. Operations Manager Geoff Larson has been very impressed with the results.

IT WAS a reunion well worth waiting for. Two years after its last conference in Florida, the Association of College and University Printers (ACUP) finally met again in April in Charlotte, N.C., bringing old friends and newcomers together for an enjoyable and enlightening event.

Auburn University’s stationery and envelopes had always been printed on offset presses. The very suggestion of printing them digitally brought deep frowns to the faces of university officials. But that didn’t stop Glenda Miley, manager of the Alabama university’s all-digital CopyCat operation, from trying.

Kodak leaders provide an overview of the innovation and technology that will be on display at IPEX 2010. Kodak will feature new key market solutions based upon differentiating technology that will add value to customers- and helping them to grow their businesses. Quality, productivity, and delivering a consultancy are discussed, in addition to customer interviews.

At last month's On Demand Show, the latest digital color presses were  on display.

Lehigh University Printing and Mailing Services just installed a Ricoh Pro C900 color production system. It is being used to produce a variety of posters, flyers and postcards for the university, as well as signage, playbooks, parking passes and more for the Philadelphia Eagles training camp.

Larger than expected crowds converged on the AIIM/On Demand Show last month in Philadelphia, despite a drop in vendors from last year.

Looking for new sources of business, Penni Istre, manager of Tiger Graphic Services at the University of Memphis, decided it was time for her in-plant to go after a virtually untapped market: students.