Canon U.S.A.

Buddy Mountcastle, Marketing Executive with Canon Solutions America, offers insights and, most important, solutions to the key issues surrounding end-to-end mail integrity and risk avoidance. From data entry to delivery it is crucial to know exactly how each piece of the print and mail workflow is performing.

When he started working at George Fox University Print Services in 2011, Richard Silver was no stranger to wide-format printing. He had previously worked at a reprographics company specializing in wide-format.

Judging by the content of the sessions at last month's Southeastern University Printing and Digital Managers Conference (SUPDMC), the threat of outsourcing still weighs heavy on the minds of higher-ed in-plant managers. Throughout the three-day conference, held on the campus of The University of Texas at Austin, speakers repeated the worrisome message that outsourcing companies are relentless and every in-plant should expect—and prepare—to be called into question.

With traditional offset exhibitors like Heidelberg giving the Chicago trade show a pass, the digital print vendors were the new kings. Xerox, Canon, Konica Minolta and Fujifilm led the pack in booth size, and each of them had new inkjet production presses to proclaim.

One day before PRINT 13 opened, the National Association for Printing Leadership (NAPL) inducted 15 industry leaders into the Soderstrom Society, named for the late Walter E. Soderstrom, one of the founders of NAPL. The Soderstrom award recognizes the contributions of industry leaders, including printing firm owners, equipment manufacturers, consultants, and educators.

At PRINT 13, Canon U.S.A. will be highlighting the new “Niagara” (development name) high-volume sheetfed color inkjet digital press that is designed to help consolidate sheetfed black-and-white and color workflows on to one production printing system.

Ed Jansen, Vice President of the Production Print Solutions Professional Services Group at Canon Solutions America, explains how his team members deliver workflow solutions that increase efficiency and deliver a competitive edge. They work closely with customers to ensure smooth integration of legacy machines with new technologies.

IPG had an opportunity to tour Canon Americas’ new headquarters facility in Melville, N.Y., recently, along with a handful of other editors and consultants. The new 700,000-square-foot facility, about 35 miles east of Manhattan, joins London and Tokyo as one of Canon’s three worldwide headquarters locations. 

The Principal Financial Group’s Print to Mail operation is serious about digital color printing. Just six years ago, the 64-employee in-plant had 10 Kodak NexPress digital presses running in its Urbandale, Iowa, operation—making it the largest single-site NexPress user in the world.

Yesterday in Melville, N.Y., Canon Americas opened the doors of its new headquarters facility to IPG and dozens of other graphic arts editors and analysts, who had the opportunity to tour Canon's state-of-the-art showroom.