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SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA—12/13/07—A stellar group of leaders in the graphic arts industry will be speaking on issues related to sustainability in business at the “The Business of Green Media” conference planned for Jan. 24 at Cal Poly. The conference, intended particularly for the graphic arts industry, will take an in-depth look at current developments, state and federal regulations, and other conditions directly related to the “greening” of the printing industry. The conference will open with a keynote address by Don Carli, senior research fellow at The Institute for Sustainable Communication. He will speak on “Sustainability, Climate Change and the Evolution of Greener Graphic Communication Supply

Eight leading national corporations and Cal Poly’s College of Liberal Arts have signed on as initial sponsors of the university’s Sustainability Conference, “The Business of Green Media,” set for Jan. 24. “Sustainability is a very important issue and will be so for the foreseeable future,” says Harvey Levenson, head of the Graphic Communication Department at Cal Poly. The conference is intended to provide thought-provoking information about the challenges of sustainability and climate change and to deliver practical steps that can be taken immediately. It will feature GPO Public Printer Robert C. Tapella, who will speak at a Sustainability Banquet at the end of

NEWTON, MA—December 4, 2007—Questex Media Group’s On Demand Exposition & Conference (ondemandexpo.com), the preeminent event for commercial printers, publishers, and in-plant printing professionals, today announced its 2008 conference program. Packed with high-profile keynote presentations and more than 50 conference sessions, the conference program will be presented by industry leaders and innovators offering key information to increase productivity and profits. The On Demand Exposition & Conference, which is co-located with the Xplor Conference and the AIIM International Conference & Exposition, will take place at the Boston Convention & Exposition Center, March 3-6, 2008. According to Tom Bliss, Conference Director – On Demand Exposition & Conference,

THE MEANS for companies to communicate with customers expand on an almost daily basis. The Internet, cell phones, movie theaters, kiosks and dozens of other outlets have joined print, radio and TV as popular methods of delivering ads and messages. The market research firm Yankelovich quantifies the impact of the growing array of communication methods this way: consumers encounter between 3,500 and 5,000 marketing messages a day, or three to four times as many as in the 1970s. In this environment, conventional wisdom would suggest that no single medium would prevail…and certainly not the one that has been around the longest. In fact,

ANY ATTEMPT to predict the course of technological development amounts to an educated guess at best. (After all, experts once said that Adobe Photoshop and the Mac would never be acceptable for professional graphic arts applications.) That said, there’s a buzz in the air about three technological developments: printed electronics, security printing and lenticular. Each is still a work in process to a degree, so the exact size and nature of their market potential is yet to be determined. The term “printed electronics” (printing of conductive inks) is being applied to such a range of processes and applications that it’s hard to make

For years, Paul Lee played what he called a game of “Frogger” whenever he left his office on the first floor of an education building at Anne Arundel Community College, in Arnold, Md. “Getting from my office to the copy center I had to cross a hall,” says Lee, director of Document Services, “and if I did that between classes…” Frogger ensued—that classic video game where a frog tries to cross a busy street without being squashed. This danger aside, the in-plant’s location was less than ideal for another reason: it was in a different building than the mail center. So if jobs were finished late

FOR 30 years now the Texas Association of College and University Printers (TACUP) has been meeting all over Texas. Last month, the University of North Texas (UNT) played host to the group, which included 42 managers from in-plants as far south as Brownsville, on the Mexico border. An affable group, they networked their way through 21/2 days of sessions and plant tours, finding plenty of time to laugh and learn. UNT’s Jimmy Friend modeled the conference’s theme on the TV reality show “Survivor,” splitting attendees into two tribes, the Inkadinkas and the Paperwampus. Members fielded questions throughout the event, getting points for correct answers.

THE IN-PLANT market is probably the most underestimated user of digital printing technology. The influence of the in-plant is apparent from an examination of the segments where on-demand devices are being placed. The in-plant market drove the adoption of black-and-white digital printing and currently accounts for 40 percent of high-speed monochrome print-on-demand cut-sheet installations. The in-plants are also leading the color charge, accounting for 30 percent of placements in the 24-59 pages per minute (ppm) production color segment and 20 percent of the convenience color copier/printers and production color devices in excess of 60 ppm. Just like the entire print-for-pay market, in-plants are

SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA—11/12/07—Several international companies sensitive to the issues of sustainability have stepped up to do something about it. Kodak, Mohawk Papers, Quebecor World, and Xerox are initial sponsors of the upcoming sustainability conference at Cal Poly, titled “The Business of Green Media.” The conference, set for Jan. 24, will bring together leaders in the production of sustainable media. Sessions will focus on the business challenges and opportunities that face the graphic arts community and those involved in media production. This includes printers, publishers, packaging companies, advertising agencies, graphic designers, Web and Internet site developers, and equipment manufacturers and supply vendors, and educators. A reception

THE NATIONAL Government Publishing Association (NGPA) rounded up government in-plant managers from all parts of the country last month for the group’s 31st annual conference. The three-day event, held in Austin, Texas, was organized by NGPA Vice President Richard Beto, director of document services at the University of Texas-Austin; Robert Gomez, director of publishing for the Texas State Senate; and NGPA President Audrey Marrocco, print administrator for the Pennsylvania Department of General Services. Several dozen state and federal printing managers, along with a few of their state university counterparts, attended professional development sessions and toured the in-plants at the University of Texas and