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MINNEAPOLIS—Sept. 24—Delphax Technologies Inc., a global provider of high-speed digital printing systems, announced today that it will demonstrate an in-line perfect bound book production system featuring the Delphax CR2200 at MBO Open House Innovation Days Nov. 7-9 in Westampton, N.J. The Delphax CR2200 is the fastest monochrome toner-based digital print system in the world, operating at 500 feet per minute. Advantages of the CR2200 press include improved cycle times, higher productivity and reduced labor. These and other advantages provide lower overall production costs and increased throughput capabilities. The range of production capability also allows CR2200 Book Solution customers to increase the amount of short

Ricoh Americas Corp. has established a new Production Printing Business Group (PPBG) to specifically focus on the unique, customer driven requirements of data center, in-plant and graphic arts environments. PPBG will have a dedicated direct sales team, channel operations and solutions engineers working to define, build, implement and support production printing solutions. According to the company, it will offer a portfolio of proven, and evolving, monochrome and color products, along with best-in-class alliance partners. Included in the group is the recently formed InfoPrint Solutions Co., Ricoh’s new joint venture with IBM. At Gaph Expo, the company previewed its “Ricoh Future Color” (RFC) technology in a corner

CHICAGO—More aggressive promotion to in-plants was part of the plan the sponsors of Graph Expo implemented to build traffic at the 2007 show. It’s still not known if that part of the effort paid off, but the Graphic Arts Show Co. (GASC) is projecting that overall attendance was up. While cautioning that official attendance figures are still pending, GASC Vice President Chris Price believes attendance was up slightly over last year. In 2006, the show company switched to reporting verified attendees, rather than all registrations. An impressive 640 exhibitors, including 120+ new ones, filled the sold-out exhibit hall. Along with the offset and digital printing equipment

Graph Expo 2007 visitors can see NEXPRESS systems running at Kodak booth 1246 and Ricoh booth 3046 CHICAGO—September 9—Kodak and Ricoh Americas Corporation announced at Graph Expo 2007 a U.S. reseller agreement under which Ricoh will offer four KODAK NEXPRESS Digital Production Color Presses to its customers in the in-plant, data center and graphic arts market “NEXPRESS Digital Production Color Presses give Ricoh customers a proven, high end production color solution that compliments our office and light production color products,” said Carl Joachim, Vice President, Marketing, Ricoh’s Production Printing Business Group. “The combination makes perfect sense, combining Ricoh’s strength in the office market with

A panel of consultants and editors has chosen the six top survival technologies for printers, and management information systems leads the pack. The other five, according to the Graph Expo 2007 “Must See ’Ems” Technology and Product Selection Committee, are: • Digital production printing (including toner and ink-jet systems) • Workflow • Information technology (including the ability to properly install, use and maintain the equipment) • Web-to-print capability (including the ability for customers to submit jobs electronically) • Color management The Committee also identified these additional technologies as having a significant impact on printers’ success: • Litho press automation (not including JDF) • Computer-to-plate technology • Preflight software

When the lease on his in-plant’s Xerox DocuColor 2045 was nearing its end, Joe Geffre started shopping around. Not only did he want the quality printing (and variable data capabilities) that a more modern device would provide, he knew that the students in his school’s graphic arts program would benefit from using state-of-the-art technology—and his shop’s 13-year-old Xeikon digital press was becoming more antiquated by the day. “We wanted to make sure that the kids are trained on the latest and greatest,” says Geffre, director of Mail and Document Services at Pennsylvania College of Technology, in Williamsport, Pa. His 10-employee print and mail operation

Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) plans to overhaul its document management systems with an array of new Xerox equipment. Not only will the 56,000-student school replace laser printers, stand-alone copiers and fax machines on its four campuses with 160 new multifuction devices, it will upgrade the digital printers in its 13-employee Printing Services department. The in-plant will swap its older Xerox DocuTech 6135 for a new model with Xerox FreeFlow MakeReady software, which will allow the shop to more easily provide variable data printing of recruitment materials. Printing Services will also receive a Nuvera printer to improve the quality of its black-and-white printing. On

The In-plant Printing and Mailing Association met recently in Oklahoma City for an action-packed conference. IPG captured the excitement on video.

TRUMBULL, CT—July 27, 2007—Océ, a global leader in digital document management and delivery solutions, announces the Océ VarioPrint 6250 digital duplex printer with revolutionary Océ Gemini Instant Duplex technology has received a 2007 InterTech? Technology Award from the Printing Industries of America/Graphic Arts Technical Foundation (PIA/GATF). Inaugurated in 1978, the PIA/GATF InterTech Technology Award honors excellence in innovative technology for the graphic communications industry. The Océ VarioPrint 6250 is the only digital printer recognized with an InterTech Award this year. PIA/GATF sponsors the award, while an anonymous, independent judging committee of industry experts and users choose the recipients. “Recipients of this prestigious award not

Better Buys for Business, an independent authority of office imaging equipment, has selected 27 digital printing devices as recipients of its Editor’s Choice awards. Among the big names whose equipment was honored are Kodak, Kyocera, Xerox, HP, Océ, Ricoh and Infoprint, the new joint venture between Ricoh and IBM. The winners are listed in Better Buys’ “2007 High-Volume Printer and Digital Duplicator Guide.” Kodak had two of its digital printers selected. Better Buys called the Digimaster EX Digital Production System Series “an impressive on-demand printer series that has great appeal for high-volume print buyers” and the NexPress M700 Digital Color Press “an excellent entry point