In-plant Events

In just four days, in-plants from all over the country will be meeting at Graph Expo during a special session called “The Future of Digital Through the Eyes of an In-Plant Printer.” This free session on Tuesday, October 28 will feature a panel of in-plant managers from Kohler, Blue Cross-Blue Shield of Minnesota and the Houston Independent School District, speaking about their experiences with digital printing. They will cover cost justification, selection criteria and marketing digital print to customers. The session, which includes a continental breakfast, will take place before the show floor opens, from 8:30-10:00 am, in room N427a. It will be moderated

The annual Graph Expo exhibition, the largest graphic arts show in the Western Hemisphere, gets underway this Sunday at Chicago’s McCormick Place South and runs through October 29. More than 600 exhibitors will grace the 400,000 square feet of exhibit space at printing’s annual prepress, press, postpress and related technologies showcase.

The third annual INTERQUEST Digital Printing in Government Forum will take place in just 12 days at the Omni Shoreham in Washington D.C. Last year’s event drew about 150 attendees from more than 40 agencies and printing companies serving the government market. This year, INTERQUEST will present the results from a new study “Digital Printing in the Government: Market Analysis & Forecast (2008-2012),” which will be published in November. The study is based on an in-depth survey of government in-plant, CRD and data center operations. It analyzes market trends, issues, applications, and opportunities. The event, taking place Wednesday, November 5, will feature two customer

The National Government Publishing Association (NGPA) concluded its 31st annual conference yesterday in Bellevue, Wash. More than 80 government in-plant representatives attended. This year’s conference, organized by the Washington State Department of Printing, brought a more diverse group than usual, including a number of in-plants from schools in the Pacific Northwest. Ursula Burns, president of Xerox, flew in from Rochester, N.Y., just to give the opening keynote address. She focused on the “three mega trends” that Xerox has identified: personalization, collaboration and digitization. Wes Friesen, of Portland General Electric’s in-plant, enlivened the atmosphere with tips on how to be a better manager

Ursula Burns, president of Xerox, will give the keynote address to kick off the 32nd annual National Government Publishing Association conference, just 10 days from today. The event, taking place in Bellvue, Wash., is being hosted by the Washington State Department of Printing. The conference will start with an opening reception on October 19, giving government printers from all over the country a chance to mingle. After Burns’ keynote the next morning, Wes Friesen, in-plant manager at Portland Gas & Electric, will give a presentation titled “Successfully Managing In-House Operations.” Then, Patricia Fritz, associate chief of staff for strategic environmental programs for the Government

Graph Expo attendees will get to see a live JDF demonstration showing how industry standards can work together in a design-to-finishing automated workflow. Vendors like Adobe, FOLDRite, Avanti, Kodak and Duplo have coordinated with CIP4, the JDF standards organization, to demonstrate an entire workflow on the show floor. For the first time, visitors will be able to see an A-to-Z demonstration of this process and how industry standards can work together across different systems—creating a more realistic view of the average print shop’s varied equipment offerings. Show attendees who visit Booth 3646 will be stepped through the production process, from file creation to finishing,

In-plant managers attending Graph Expo in Chicago will have an opportunity to mingle with other managers and attend a free morning session on Tuesday, October 28. The session, titled “The Future of Digital Through the Eyes of an In-Plant Printer,” will feature a panel of three in-plant managers from Kohler, Blue Cross-Blue Shield of Minnesota and the Houston Independent School District, speaking about their experiences with digital printing. They will cover cost justification, selection criteria when shopping for printers and marketing digital print to customers. The session, which includes a continental breakfast, will take place before the show floor opens, from 8:30-10:00 am, in

University in-plant managers gathered this past spring in Clearwater for the ACUP 2008 conference.

Prepress Agfa will debut its chemistry-free thermal digital plate, the ThermoFuse-based Azura TS. It features an advanced clean-out system and improved contrast for easier visual inspections and offers higher throughput of up to 50 percent or 100,000 impressions. Agfa’s ThermoFuse technology physically bonds images to the plate without chemical processing. PlateWriter 2000, an ink-jet system designed for small- to medium-format offset printing, will be shown by Glunz & Jensen. The system jets a Liquid Dot solution onto non-photosensitive aluminium plates. The imaged plates are then manually fed through a finishing unit that dries them and bonds the liquid dots. Heidelberg will demonstrate Prinect Inpress

The third annual INTERQUEST Digital Printing in Government Forum is set to take place on Wednesday, November 5 at the Omni Shoreham in Washington D.C. Last year’s event drew about 150 attendees from more than 40 agencies and printing companies serving the government market. This year, INTERQUEST will present the results from a new study “Digital Printing in the Government: Market Analysis & Forecast (2008-2012),” which will be published in November. The study is based on an in-depth survey of government in-plant, CRD and data center operations. It analyzes market trends, issues, applications, and opportunities. The event will feature two customer panels, along with