Duplo USA

Duplo Corp. has a new corporate identity. To be implemented globally starting January 1, the new identity combines traditional values and expertise in print finishing with a strong customer focus and leading edge innovation.

The company's new logo, specifically designed for the Duplo brand, is supported by the tag line ‘from print to documents,’ chosen to reflect the value that print finishing brings to the print production workflow. It also emphasizes the importance of innovative finishing solutions within traditional, digital and hybrid print environments.

Duplo USA has issued an open invitation to a product showcase of its latest digital color finishing equipment at the Radisson Hotel in Trevose, PA on Dec. 10-11. The event will run each day from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., with lunch provided from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. There will also be a raffle drawing for a MD-161D copier/MFP.

The company is promoting the product showcase as an opportunity to still capitalize on the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008, which has a Dec. 31 deadline. Among the equipment to be featured are the:

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

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,

WASHINGTON, DC—10/06/08—The International Cooperation for the Integration of the Processes in Prepress, Press and Postpress (CIP4) organization and Graphic Arts Show Corporation (GASC) today announced details for the JDF Works Print Shop Live! program at GRAPH EXPO 2008. The JDF Works Print Shop Live! is designed to show attendees exactly what can be accomplished using today’s print production automation technologies. At this new feature, show goers will follow a live digital print job through production at three different locations on the show floor from online job creation and customization, through order management, scheduling, prepress and imposition, to printing and finishing of the final printed

THE QUESTION of whether or not to replace an aging offset press with a digital printer has nagged many in-plant managers. So when Millersville University hired a consultant last fall to analyze the five-employee Printing & Duplicating operation, it was no surprise when he recommended the shop decommission its sheetfed presses and go digital. What is a surprise is that, half a year later, this southeastern Pennsylvania in-plant just finished installing, not a NexPress, but a five-color, 19x26˝ Adast 755CP offset press. The decision to stick with offset—what’s more to upgrade from a two-color to a five-color press—was a complicated one, explains Barbara Buchanan,

IPG Editor Bob Neubauer wraps up his Drupa visit with a look at bindery and digital printing equipment, inclding new ink-jet presses. (He also pokes fun at some odd contraptions he stumbles upon.)

THOUGH MOST of the press conferences and “big news” at Drupa centered on digital printing, innovations in bindery and finishing were no less prevalent. In fact, many of them sprang from the very digital printing trends that overshadowed them. As digital printing speeds have increased, bindery equipment has also gotten faster, with vastly improved automation and simplified touch-screen controls to make them even easier to set up. JDF compatibility is becoming more common in bindery equipment, allowing devices to be preset using production data. Demands for higher-quality printed products have led bindery vendors to improve their paper-handling techniques. Folds look better on the latest

The Xerox Production Systems Group presented Partner of the Year awards to 16 business partners for their continued contributions to Xerox, its customers and the printing industry. Rochester Software Associates was presented with the 2007 Production Systems Group Software Partner of the Year Award for providing customers in vertical markets, such as healthcare and education, with solutions that improve and enhance print production workflows. Additional Software Partner of the Year Awards were presented to: • Atlas Software - Variable Information Partner of the Year • Avanti Computer Systems - Business Management / MIS Partner of the Year • Elixir - Data Transformation Partner of

WHILE HARDWARE and software manufacturers have yet to devise a tonic that can cure the hung-over stitcher operator, many aspects of postpress efficiency have been adequately addressed...depending upon whom you ask. Some feel we have made leaps and bounds en route to shortening the after-press process; others believe we’re still being short changed. We’ve asked a group of industry experts their opinion on the progress made in automating postpress processes. Most agree that some areas have been bolstered, but they don’t agree on which areas. “I’d say binding, folding and stitching equipment have drastically improved to the point where we have eliminated a