Digital Printing-Toner - Cut Sheet (Color)

TRUMBULL, CT—July 23, 2008—Océ, an international leader in digital document management and delivery, announces an option-rich addition to its cut-sheet production printing portfolio. The Océ VarioPrint 1105 system greatly expands users’ choices for paper input and output, workflow software, business applications and quality finishing. The monochrome laser printer/copier/scanner helps in-house and commercial print shops extend service offerings, enhance customer satisfaction, and improve professionalism and profitability. “In-house and commercial print shops face pressure to prove their worth. With its extensive range of capabilities, the Océ VarioPrint 1105 system helps our customers accomplish more work and meet unexpected demands,” said Eric De Goeijen, Vice President

BOCA RATON, FL—07/22/08—Their pens were flying and ears perked as about 60 lucky students from middle and high schools throughout Palm Beach County, including 10 Glades area students who participated via distance learning, received writing tips from such well-known local authors as Jonathon King, Margaret Ahnert, and James O. Born. The free eight-day writing workshop held at Boca Raton High School was offered for the third year as part of the Océ Future Authors Writing Project, a collaborative effort by Océ North America and the School District of Palm Beach County. During the summer workshop students become published authors, learn how to improve

Ohio State University (OSU) has selected the Dialogue software application from Exstream Software by HP as the primary tool to overhaul and improve its student communication system. The university needed a standard platform for producing the more than 250,000 student communications it sends annually, including admission letters, grant awards, loan information and more. Dialogue will enable OSU to produce automated, data-driven student communications that are specifically created and customized for each student with the insertion of targeted, relevant messaging. It support delivery through print/mail and online channels. “We have seen an increase of several thousand applications each year and serve a student

Rising crude oil prices continue to put pressure on ink makers to find ways to recoup cost increases for their raw materials, including pigments, chemicals, freight and packaging. As a result, Flint Group is instituting surcharges and price increases for all commercial and packaging inks sold in North America, effective on all products billed on or after July 21, 2008. A surcharge of $0.10/lb. is being added for all solvent, energy curable and paste products (inks, coatings, extenders/blend vehicles), while water-based inks, coatings, extenders/blend vehicles and additives will carry a $0.06/lb. extra charge. Price increases will be assessed on a percentage basis depending on

Ricoh Co. will erect a sign in New York City’s Times Square that will be 100 percent powered by solar and wind power. The electronic billboard, reportedly the first ever to be totally powered by natural resources in Times Square, will be located at the corner of 7th Avenue and 42nd Street.  The sign, which is 47 feet high and 126 feet long, will be illuminated by floodlights and powered by 45 solar panels and four turbines for wind generation.  By using all natural energy sources, Ricoh will reduce the amount of CO2 production by 18 tons per year. If there is not enough

DIGITAL PRINTING technology had its strongest showing yet at Drupa 2008, the world’s largest graphic arts trade show. The two-week event, which took place in Düsseldorf, Germany, last month, lived up to its billing as “The Ink-jet Drupa,” with “green printing” being the only challenger as a show theme, since virtually every exhibitor touched on it. About 391,000 visitors prowled the 19 halls of Drupa this year, (see sidebar about in-plants that attended), checking out the 1,971 exhibitors from 52 countries. Most of the attention, though, centered on the new digital printing devices, particularly those in the ink-jet category—though with prices ranging from $1

The two-employee in-plant at California State University-Fullerton was doing some remarkable digital color printing volumes on its Xerox DocuColor 12. In just one month last summer it produced 47,000 impressions. “We had the highest click count this side of the Mississippi,” laughs Terry Jarmon, manager of Print Services. Still, Jarmon knew a lot of digital jobs were bypassing the in-plant due to the Doc 12’s speed limitations. So after checking out all of the latest digital presses, the shop added a Kodak NexPress 2100 plus. “This is our first true digital press, and it is an amazing piece of equipment,” he says. The

TRUMBULL, CT—June 26, 2008—Océ, an international leader in digital document management and delivery, announces that Spectrum Digital Services, LLC has strengthened its competitive position and increased margins by 25 percent with the Océ CS650 full color digital printer. Wisconsin-based Spectrum Digital Services is a pioneer in printed, recordable CDs and DVDs, and now the company can print sleeve packaging in-house, resulting in some of the fastest guaranteed turnaround times in the industry. Today Spectrum Digital Services is a one-stop source for marketing and ad agencies, medical facilities, religious groups and many others that need short runs of customized, sleeve-packaged disc media. “The Océ

The University of Mississippi has installed a new five-color Kodak NexPress 2500 digital color printing system, which it plans to press into service to produce personalized recruitment materials. “More than anything else, the NexPress is going to help push the shop into personalized marketing and one-to-one variable data printing,” remarks Tony Seaman, director of Printing and Graphic Services. “That is the reason we went down this road.” Getting a Kodak digital press was a big move for this formerly all-Xerox shop. Seaman explains why his shop went this route in the cover story of the June issue of IPG.

RESTON, VA— June 4, 2008—A committee of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is currently drafting an international standard that will define a variable data printing (VDP) job exchange format.  ISO 16612-2 (PDF/VT) will specify how to use the Portable Document Format (PDF) to define and exchange all content elements and supporting metadata to produce predictable output for variable or transactional document content. PDF/VT (“V” for “Variable” and “T” for “Transactional”) is designed to enable VDP in a variety of environments, from desktop printing to digital production presses, and to accommodate linkages for content, such as TransPromo applications, which combine color promotional content with transactional information.  PDF/VT is a modern PDF