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The On Demand Conference & Expo completed its 2007 run last week at the Boston Convention & Exposition Center. Changing locations has been part of the story with this event since the move from its home in New York City to Philadelphia and now on to Boston through 2008. While the facility was striking, exhibitors were speculating that show floor traffic was lighter and more regional than last year (attendance figures have yet to be released). Weather woes on the East Coast and complications caused by the marathon on Monday may have dampened attendance. Close to 200 exhibitors participated in the On Demand section of

BOSTON—April 17, 2007 -- At an awards ceremony this afternoon, Questex Media Group, Inc. announced the winners of the On Demand Best of Show Award program. InfoTrends, a leading market research and consulting firm in the digital imaging and document solutions industry, partnered with the On Demand Conference & Exposition to produce the awards program. The On Demand Conference & Exposition is taking place this week at the Boston Convention & Exposition Center. The On Demand Best of Show Awards were judged in eight categories. One Best of Show award was presented in each of the following categories: Bindery, Finishing and Mailing

California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) upgraded its Digital Imaging Lab with an equipment donation from Eastman Kodak that included a Kodak Trendsetter 800 III Quantum Platesetter and Kodak Prinergy EVO Workflow System. “This is a major addition to our prepress laboratory capabilities. With the Trendsetter 800 III Quantum platesetter and Prinergy EVO workflow system, our students are learning on the latest technology of its kind,” said Harvey Levenson, head of Cal Poly’s Graphic Communication Department. “In addition, the processless capabilities of the Trendsetter platesetter support the continuing ‘greening’ of the graphic communications industry, a trend that we all welcome.” This latest donation of Kodak solutions

IN-PLANTS WITH mail imaging capabilities do more than address their customers’ mail; they offer their clients added convenience and improved service, which ultimately leads to satisfied customers. “The main advantage is that one of our departments can come to us, hand the project to us and they are done. We address it, tab it, fold it and mail it. We take care of it all,” says Dwayne Weaver, manager of campus mail at the University of Georgia, in Athens, Ga. Today’s mail imaging equipment can go way beyond simple addressing. Some in-plants are equipped to print colors, graphics and a variety of fonts

A CONTROVERSY is brewing about the future of book and manual production. Some people say they are going away; I believe book production is evolving from a labor intensive, manual process to an automated, template-based digital process. The argument that book and manual production are dead cites evidence of dwindling book readership, numbers of book publishers, comparisons of the costs of long offset runs verses shorter digital runs and the book distribution model. On the other side of the coin is the argument that print production is morphing with digital printing and online technologies; those who take advantage of this evolution will be

Day-Long Seminar in New York Will Feature Presentations by Leading Experts on the Most Advanced Virtual Proofing Systems and Applications NEW YORK, NY and SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA, March 21, 2007 — In their first joint bi-coastal effort, the New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies (NYU-SCPS) Master of Arts Program in Graphic Communications Management and Technology, and the Graphic Communication Institute at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, California, will host a day-long seminar on virtual proofing (VP) in New York City on Tuesday, April 17th. Starting at 8:00 a.m., the Virtual Proofing Seminar sessions will be held in the Public Assembly Room

Editor’s note: Kodak issued the follow clarification to its earlier press release: ROCHESTER, NY—March 14—”KODAK Creative Network is in response to requests from our customers to drive more demand for print business. Production for the Kodak Creative Network, Kodak Easyshare Gallery and other independent online services is done by Kodak customers utilizing Kodak Nexpress solutions. Our customers are asking for more business, and we’re doing everything we can to get more of it to them.” Kodak Creative Network Provides a Dependable and Time-Saving Solution for Easily Creating High Quality Printed Products and Designs ROCHESTER, NY—Mar 13, 2007—Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE: EK) today announced the launch of Kodak Creative Network (creative.kodak.com), a new, online

ACCORDING TO acronymfinder.com there are 89 published definitions for POD. “Print On Demand” ranks number 7 in popularity. (For what it’s worth, #6 is “Probability Of Damage” and #8 is “Payable On Death.” Number one, not surprisingly, is “Proof Of Delivery.”) As to the On Demand part, everything is OD these days: movies, music, weather, news, banking, and yes, there’s even Howard Stern On Demand (this author has restrained himself from commentary). Though the term is overused, it denotes anything immediately accessible. Our now-omnipresent resource library Wikipedia states; “Print on demand or publish on demand (POD) is a publishing methodology in which a

SOMETIMES IT seems I’m chained to this desk, “observing” the industry through e-mails and Web sites. So I like to break away now and then to see for myself what’s happening in the world’s in-plants. Recently I caught a train up to New York to do just that. On a frigid winter day I walked through a sea of scarves and hats to the United Nations’ headquarters to visit one of the largest in-plants out there. Paul Kazarov, chief of the Publishing Section, took me for a walk through the U.N.’s vast underground in-plant, filled with just about every type of printing and binding

IN-PLANT UPGRADES come a lot more easily when your organization’s marketing department is pushing for them. Take the Community College of Philadelphia (CCP), for example. For years the Central Duplicating department had been getting by with aging Itek, Multi and A.B.Dick duplicators, with barely a dime of investment money coming from the school. But as CCP kicked off a new branding and marketing campaign, the benefits of print-on-demand and variable data printing—and the role they could play in the school’s recruitment efforts—became obvious. This realization prompted the college to install a remanufactured Kodak NexPress 2100 with a fifth unit for adding clear gloss or