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One clear trend among the religion-based in-plants contacted by IPG is a move away from offset and toward digital printing. Three different in-plants have shut down their presses, while another started a digital in-plant from scratch. “Most of our runs are short run,” explains Lynn Baskerville, director of print operations for the Central Community Church in Wichita, Kan. The shop recently silenced its two-color Ryobi and is using a new Konica Minolta LD-5100 color printer to produce newsletters, letterhead and other products. “We get [the newsletter] out a day and a half quicker now,” remarks Baskerville. “Color’s consistent all the way through the run.” Turnaround time was

Kodak has donated a NexPress 2100 Plus Digital Production Color Press with a Fifth Imaging Unit to Waukesha County Technical College’s new Applied Technology Center (ATC). The facility serves the needs of students through technical training, applied research and product testing. The center also received a Kodak NexGlosser glossing unit, PRINERGY Workflow Software and Kodak Web-to-print solution. Waukesha CountyTechnical College, located in Waukesha, Wisconsin, has more than 100 areas of study including printing and graphics.

Konica Minolta Printing Solutions is being merged with Konica Minolta Business Solutions. In unifying into one organization, the new business unit will be able to offer customers complete solutions for document creation, production and management ranging from small office/home office to workgroups and enterprises all the way up to large production operations with its technologically advanced line of products and services. Jun Haraguchi will continue to serve president and CEO of Konica Minolta Business Solutions. “By unifying under one umbrella organization, we are able to mobilize our full resources to take advantage of the business opportunity before us, while offering one point of contact to our

NOT LONG after the close of Drupa 2004, the 2008 edition of the international printing exhibition was already being called the “ink-jet Drupa.” More recently, the title of a keynote panel at the April On Demand Conference & Expo asked, “Is Ink-jet the Technology Story for 2007?” Both are references to color production printing, not wide-format or consumer photographic printing. For 2006, the big story in ink-jet printing was industrial printing applications. It seemed as if every vendor was talking about flatbed machines capable of printing on a wide range of substrates. There have already been some signs of a shift in product focus

Creative professionals, other print buyers and Xerox Graphic Arts Premier Partners gathered yesterday at the Gil Hatch Center for Customer Innovation in Webster, N.Y. for a Xerox Thought Leadership Workshop. The session addressed the role digital printing plays in creating more efficient and profitable marketing communications programs that utilize both printed and new forms of media, such as the Web. Emmy-Award winner and author Steve Lance discussed the language disconnect that currently exists between creatives, marketers and print providers. He outlined the business challenges this creates and ways to improve the dialog and develop more effective marketing communications that drive revenue, profit and growth.  Xerox executives and

In the annual Gartner U.S. copier market report for 2006, Ricoh Americas Corp. (comprising the Ricoh, Savin and Lanier brands) has been ranked number one in both black-and-white and color overall copier placements in the United States. Ricoh had 23.1 percent of the market share for black-and-white copiers and 28.1 percent for color, respectively. This is the fifth consecutive year that Ricoh has earned the number one ranking in black-and-white and the fourth consecutive year for color copier placements in the U.S.

Xerox has just released the Xerox DocuColor 8000AP Digital Press. It reportedly enables print providers to tackle a broader range of applications at 80 ppm, regardless of the paper weight or media type running through the system. Building on the success of the Xerox DocuColor 8000 Digital Press platform, the new color press handles a wide range of media, from coated and uncoated papers to transparencies. It even handles has two operation modes that can be selected on a job-to-job basis to ensure the greatest level of productivity and flexibility for a range of applications and stocks.

THIS YEAR’S AIIM/On Demand Conference & Expo certainly had some obstacles to overcome in its first year at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center. With the Boston Marathon running on the show’s opening day, hotel rooms were at a premium. Then a storm assaulted the city, discouraging some from driving in. And as if that weren’t enough, the show had to compete with other industry events, such as the Association of College and University Printers conference, taking place at the same time in San Francisco, and the PrintFest trade show, which kicked off later that week in Long Beach, Calif. Despite all

BOSTON—April 17, 2007 -- At an awards ceremony this afternoon, Questex Media Group, Inc. announced the winners of the On Demand Best of Show Award program. InfoTrends, a leading market research and consulting firm in the digital imaging and document solutions industry, partnered with the On Demand Conference & Exposition to produce the awards program. The On Demand Conference & Exposition is taking place this week at the Boston Convention & Exposition Center. The On Demand Best of Show Awards were judged in eight categories. One Best of Show award was presented in each of the following categories: Bindery, Finishing and Mailing

Latest InfoTrends report confirms Océ leadership position for fifth year in a row BOSTON­—April 19, 2007—Océ (NASDAQ: OCENY), a global leader in digital document management and delivery solutions, announces that it has expanded its US market share leadership in continuous-feed printers, according to recently released InfoTrends data. Statistics in the new InfoTrends report, “U.S. Production Copying & Printing Placements: 2006,” place Océ in the dominant position in the 80+ ppm continuous-feed printer segment, with over 49 percent of the 2006 market share of roll-fed printer placements in the United States. Océ has held the top spot in the continuous-feed segment since 2003, the first year