Digital Printing-Toner - Cut Sheet (Color)

WHILE DIGITAL color has been the hot topic in the printing industry for the past few years, digital black-and-white printing still accounts for the majority of the digital print volume. According to InfoTrends, black-and-white devices produced 874 billion impressions and generated $17.8 billion in retail value of print in 2005. Total equipment revenues (equipment, supplies and service) reached $7.41 billion. Equipment vendors have not lost sight of this opportunity and have continued to introduce new and improved devices to replace existing digital black-and-white equipment, as well as to open new market opportunities. Vendors realize that selling equipment has become about more than feeds and

LAVERGNE, TN—01/29/07—Lightning Source Inc., the leading provider of demand-based book manufacturing and distribution solutions to the book industry, announced today it will establish a third book manufacturing facility in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. The new manufacturing center will be Lightning’s second U.S. facility, and third worldwide. The headquarters facility is in LaVergne, Tennessee, near Nashville. The second facility was established in the United Kingdom in 2001 at Milton Keynes, near London. “This is an important step for us and our valued customers who need high quality and speed to properly serve their customers in the book industry,” said J. Kirby Best, President and

HAUPPAUGE, NY—01/25/07—On March 7th, 2007, Muller Martini and Nipson America will present an open house featuring demonstrations of a complete OnDemand digital book printing and perfect binding line. The open house will take place at Muller Martini headquarters on Long Island. More than 1,200 attendees throughout the industry have been invited to the event. During the open house, a full inline digital book printing and binding workflow will be demonstrated, comprised of two Nipson VaryPress 400 digital printers with unwinder, sheeter and stacker, a Shuttleworth Star RollerTM conveyor, and a Muller Martini SigmaBinder perfect binder, SigmaTower cooling tower and Esprit three-knife trimmer. “We see

NEWTON, MA—January 10, 2007— Questex Media Group, Inc. announced that John Schwarz, CEO of Business Objects, Jeff Teper, Corporate Vice President, Office Business Platform Microsoft, and international best-selling author, Stephen J. Dubner, will deliver keynote addresses at the AIIM and ON DEMAND 2007 Conferences & Expos. The event will take place April 16-19, 2007 at the Boston Convention & Exposition Center. Additional keynote speakers will be announced shortly. The AIIM Conference & Expo is the largest event examining the strategies and technologies associated with enterprise information management. The ON DEMAND Conference & Expo is the world’s leading digital printing conference and exposition, encompassing all the

Though outsourcing may once have been an in-plant’s biggest threat, the newest challenge is coming from inside, says Mike Renn, assistant vice president of Mellon Financial’s Corporate Operation. “I’ve spent too many summers sweating blistering outsourcing arguments about printing not being part of our company’s core business. Of course, these arguments were volunteered by shady outside concerns. Fortunately, cooler heads prevailed and my in-plant survived. “Now my in-plant is threatened from the inside by the new ‘in-plants.’ High-production digital copiers are springing up all over like weeds. These expensive machines are masters of their operators. They not only demand more copies, more service, supplies and invoicing, but

To find out how Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan’s Xerox iGen3 digital press has been working out since it was installed a couple years ago, we went back and talked with Patrick O’Donnell, manager of Document Production Services. Q: Has the new equipment been helpful in your shop? A: The iGen3 has increased the production output of our five-color GTO by 300 percent. Prior to purchasing the iGen3, we were running jobs for 2,000 or fewer sheets on the GTO and sending out the longer runs to commercial shops. With the iGen3, we can now do the smaller runs on that machine and keep the

Hewlett-Packard is hosting a traveling one-day seminar called GO Digital, along with Printable Technologies, MindFireInc, AccuData, and GPA. It will hit 12 cities in the U.S. and will focus on helping identify profit opportunities in digital printing. The sessions will feature in-depth discussions of how digital technologies—such as the HP Indigo press 5000—are generating more sales with more profitable rates of return for printers and their customers. Attendees will learn to: • Differentiate your operation through profitable high-growth services • Apply technology to your clients’ marketing strategy and deliver a service your clients are demanding • Provide start-to-finish marketing strategies for your customers

Why send jobs to the in-plant when a desktop printer or hallway copier can take care of them? That’s what many of your customers are thinking—and doing. It’s up to you to change their bad, wasteful habits. Here are some suggestions from fellow managers. To see even more, check out our e-news story on this topic. Educate Them What we do is point out to all our departments with short presentations during departmental meetings how expensive the cost per copy is for a desktop versus our cheaper cost per copy with our in-plant equipment. We also stress the labor issue: that the department

The purchase of two Riso V8000 digital presses has given the University of Tennessee at Martin Digital Printing Services a new lease on life. A few years ago, the in-plant seemed to be in trouble. Its machinery was very old and some of its presses were broken. “Life expectancy for the print shop looked very dim,” says Susie Nanney, director of Information Technology Services Computer Store and Digital Printing Services. In the summer of 2005, the university’s Information Technology Services began managing the print shop and transformed it into a digital workplace, rebranding it “Digital Printing Services.” That fall, the in-plant added its first Riso V8000 digital

The National Government Publishing Association (NGPA) spiced up its recent conference in Rochester, N.Y., with visits to Kodak, Xerox and R.I.T.