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Kodak has donated a NexPress 2100 Plus Digital Production Color Press with a Fifth Imaging Unit to Waukesha County Technical College’s new Applied Technology Center (ATC). The facility serves the needs of students through technical training, applied research and product testing. The center also received a Kodak NexGlosser glossing unit, PRINERGY Workflow Software and Kodak Web-to-print solution. Waukesha CountyTechnical College, located in Waukesha, Wisconsin, has more than 100 areas of study including printing and graphics.

NOT LONG after the close of Drupa 2004, the 2008 edition of the international printing exhibition was already being called the “ink-jet Drupa.” More recently, the title of a keynote panel at the April On Demand Conference & Expo asked, “Is Ink-jet the Technology Story for 2007?” Both are references to color production printing, not wide-format or consumer photographic printing. For 2006, the big story in ink-jet printing was industrial printing applications. It seemed as if every vendor was talking about flatbed machines capable of printing on a wide range of substrates. There have already been some signs of a shift in product focus

IF YOU try to remain “just a printer,” you’re not going to be in business very long. Those words, spoken by Xerox President Ursula Burns in her keynote address, reflected the overall message of this year’s Association of College and University Printers (ACUP) conference, held recently in San Francisco. Taking the theme “We’re Not Just Printers Anymore,” ACUP 2007 endeavored to remind its in-plant attendees that they are communications providers, and should think beyond print when adding new products and services. Collaborate with admissions and other departments to come up with new ways your in-plant can add value, urged Burns. And never

Jeffrey Hayzlett, Chief Marketing Officer of Kodak’s Graphic Communications Group, has written a chapter in the new book “Goals for Successful Marketing Executives: Leading CMOs on Knowing Your Customer, Creating a Vision, and Establishing and Setting Companywide Goals,” published by Aspatore Books. Hayzlett writes that advances in digital print technology and cross media communications are driving new ways to deliver key messages and execute successful marketing campaigns. For example, Hayzlett summarizes how marketing executives can leverage new print applications such as personalization to develop customized direct mail pieces that are relevant to the recipient. “Personalization makes an integrated strategy even more effective. It focuses

NAPL has named a Kodak executive to its board of directors. Kevin Joyce, Managing Director of Kodak’s Graphic Communications Group (GCG) joined the board of directors at NAPL’s spring board meeting. “Kevin’s experience in the graphic communications industry is evident in his understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing print providers today,” said Joseph P. Truncale, President and CEO of NAPL. With more than 18 years experience in executive sales, marketing and business, Joyce joined Kodak’s Graphic Communications Group in 2005 following Kodak’s acquisition of Kodak Polychrome Graphics (KPG). He previously served as vice president of sales for KPG. Prior to that, Joyce worked with

DÜSSELDORF, GERMANY—It’s official: drupa 2008 will break all previous records. With some 170,000 square metres of net exhibition space (roughly equivalent to 40 soccer fields) and exhibitor numbers topping 1,800, the print media fair to be staged from 29 May to 11 June 2008 will be the biggest ever in its more than 50-year history. This will entail the use of the Düsseldorf Trade Fair Center’s full capacity, including all new additions. There were already indications of this trend last year, shortly before the official close of registrations on 31 October. Increases to leading international technology suppliers’ space requirements, plus larger-scale joint presentations from

I JUST got back from a coast-to-coast excursion that took me from San Francisco to Boston. I flew out to California in mid-April to attend the Association of College and University Printers (ACUP) conference. The event was packed with more than 130 in-plant attendees from 33 states and four other countries. It was wonderful to see so much interaction between managers from such geographically diverse places as New Zealand, Mississippi, Alaska, Scotland, Maine and Florida, to name a few. Attendees fell easily into conversation about their mutual challenges, sharing stories and laughs as if they had been friends for years. ACUP was very well run,

THIS YEAR’S AIIM/On Demand Conference & Expo certainly had some obstacles to overcome in its first year at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center. With the Boston Marathon running on the show’s opening day, hotel rooms were at a premium. Then a storm assaulted the city, discouraging some from driving in. And as if that weren’t enough, the show had to compete with other industry events, such as the Association of College and University Printers conference, taking place at the same time in San Francisco, and the PrintFest trade show, which kicked off later that week in Long Beach, Calif. Despite all

The in-plant for the Bethel, Wash., public school system turned out more than 44.6 million impressions in 2006, most of them in the form of booklets. “We average between 20-25,000 booklets a day,” reports Diane Karl, print shop manager. The in-plant initially adopted the booklet format in order to help students. “If students can do their general work in the same fashion as the tests they have to take for an assessment of scholastic learning, they’ll be more proficient when they take the tests,” says Karl. “It’s cost effective for us to make the booklets and easy for our students to use.

WHEN SOUTHERN Illinois University Printing/Duplicating Service installed a new Screen FT 3050 imagesetter in 1998, it was a big step forward. Gone were the days of shooting film. After nine years, though, time took its toll on the FT 3050. “It was a good machine. We were happy with it,” remarks Dennis Maze, superintendent of the 22-employee operation, in Carbondale, Ill. “But we had some problems with it a little over a year ago.” Error messages and the need for parts left the machine out of commission for days at a time—once for a full week. “So that’s when we decided to start