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

Scott Cornish had a color conundrum on his hands when trying to consistently produce marketing collateral pieces and in-store signage for Chico's, FAS, Inc., a sophisticated women's clothing and intimate apparel retailer.

THOUGH SOME major digital printing equipment vendors may have sat out this year's AIIM/On Demand Conference and Exposition in Philadelphia, all of the key bindery vendors were there, showing off their latest innovations. IPG spent time at all of their booths.

Larger than expected crowds converged on the AIIM/On Demand Show last month in Philadelphia, despite a drop in vendors from last year.

THE AIIM/On Demand Conference and Exposition is returning to IPG’s home town of Philadelphia next month, taking place April 20-22. Some 10,000 people are expected to attend the three-day show, with hundreds of vendors planning to exhibit. To whet your appetite, IPG asked some key vendors what they plan to showcase at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.

When Poppy Forbes upgraded her in-plant to bring it into the world of digital printing, it didn't take her long to realize that the shop's bindery would also need some improvements. Forbes, print shop manager at the in-plant serving Boulder County, Colo., added a Canon imageRUNNER 7105 black-and-white copier and a Canon imagePRESS C7000VP digital press in 2008. A year later, the government in-plant installed a Duplo System 5000 collating system and a Duplo DC-615 slitter/cutter/creaser.

Tina Gray saw the end of a lease agreement for an older Duplo saddle stitcher as an opportunity to bring more automated technology into her in-plant. Gray, print shop manager of the in-plant serving the Oklahoma Department of Human Services in Oklahoma City, decided last spring to install a four-tower Standard Horizon VAC collator system in-line with a Standard Horizon StitchLiner 5500 saddle stitching system with integrated three-knife trimming.

Take a quick tour of the PRINT 09 show floor with IPG Editor Bob Neubauer.

THOUGH PRINT 09 may have gotten off to a slow start, the crowds eventually showed up. And when they did, many of them headed right for the bindery equipment. Nowhere was that more true than at the Standard Finishing Systems exhibit, which was bustling with activity on the third day of the show, even as other booths appeared to be on siesta. Mark Hunt, director of marketing for Standard, thought he knew why.

The ReproGraphic Services department at San Diego State University prides itself as being a small but versatile group. To prove it can be even more nimble and flexible, the in-plant recently updated its bindery and rearranged the pressroom for a more efficient workflow. In late June, the shop installed a Morgana DigiFold 5000P folder and a Duplo System 5000 bookletmaker with two eight-bin towers. The Morgana folder joins an older Baum folder, while the Duplo replaces a 16-year-old Horizon booklet-maker. Since the new machines are much quieter than their predecessors, the in-plant was able to reduce noise levels.