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The crowds returned to Graph Expo this year. Here's a look at what they saw, including the latest inkjet presses.

A year after the disappointing attendance levels of PRINT 09, this week's Graph Expo 2010 seemed like a real trade show again. The aisles were full of people, who massed around new products, and kept vendors busy with demos.

OK, so as a trusted provider of your organization's graphic communications you've made the critical leap into the world of digital color print. You understand that digital print is more than just short-run and print-on-demand, and that your customers need personalized and relevant content to maximize the ROI of their print-spend.

IPG Editor Bob Neubauer takes a road trip through Oregon, visiting three in-plants along the way.

The Association of College and University Printers (ACUP) conference brought in-plant managers to Charlotte to discuss digital printing, Web-to-print and much more.

Cedarville University’s Postal & Print Services has earned the prestigious Management Award from the In-Plant Printing and Mailing Association (IPMA). This award is presented annually to one outstanding in-plant that excels in efficient management practices to further the objectives of its parent organization.

IT WAS a reunion well worth waiting for. Two years after its last conference in Florida, the Association of College and University Printers (ACUP) finally met again in April in Charlotte, N.C., bringing old friends and newcomers together for an enjoyable and enlightening event.

IT'S CONFERENCE season again, which means that in between writing and editing articles for this issue, I've been dashing off to in-plant events around the country. In the past two weeks I've been to two in-plant meetings (plus the On Demand Show) and talked with dozens of managers about what's happening in their shops.

Looking for new sources of business, Penni Istre, manager of Tiger Graphic Services at the University of Memphis, decided it was time for her in-plant to go after a virtually untapped market: students.

WHEN MARK Dixon inherited the lead role at the University of Oregon's Printing and Mailing Services in December from long-time Director J.R. Gaddis, he started by taking a back-to-basics approach and stamping it with his own progressive twist.