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Middle Tennessee State University, in Murfreesboro, now has a new retail printing center on the first floor of its Student Union. Called BLUE print Solutions, the operation held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday.

The snowstorm that shut down the University of West Georgia (UWG) and much of nearby Atlanta in January was nothing compared to the gale that nearly blew away UWG's in-plant a few years ago. Back in 2009, UWG administration floated a plan to shutter the school's Department of Publications and Printing and reallocate funding. The idea was to begin contracting for printing services with outside vendors.

When will an inkjet production press make its way into your in-plant? The technology is advancing steadily, and a handful of in-plants have already invested in it, but for most managers, inkjet means wide-format, not high volumes and high speeds.

Canon Americas Headquarters in Melville, NY, has been awarded LEED Gold certification, a recognition for the design, construction, operations and maintenance of high-performance green buildings. The Canon Americas Headquarters is the largest commercial property on Long Island to achieve this level of LEED.

Assess the state of the industry and identify the best practices for successfully making the transition into cross-media.

It's been a year since Canon Business Solutions and Océ North America were consolidated into the newly created subsidiary Canon Solutions America (CSA). To celebrate the anniversary, Canon held an event this week in Delray Beach, Fla., and IPG was there to catch the action.

The Inkjet Summit 2014, organized by nGage Events and Printing Impressions magazine and held April 7-9, at the exclusive Ponte Vedra Inn & Club in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, is an invitation-only event for senior managers and business executives who want to understand how inkjet technology trends, software, consumables and finishing solutions will impact their businesses.

California State Printer Jerry Hill spent Ben Franklin's 308th birthday hosting an open house at the Office of State Publishing (OSP) to promote the in-plant's newly expanded facilities and upgraded capabilities.

The start of each new semester at Nassau Community College in Garden City, N.Y., is not only a busy and stressful time for professors, faculty and the more than 25,000 students; the pressure is also on the eight-employee in-plant to produce a variety of classroom materials, marketing pieces and signage for the campus.

For many years, Integrys Energy Group relied on two printing operations: a 10-employee in-plant in Green Bay, Wis., (Printing Services) with a Ryobi 524, a Didde 700 web press and Canon digital printers; and a bill printing and insertion operation in downtown Chicago, run by the IT department.