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At University of Washington Creative Communications, the in-plant's implementation of Lean production practices have been critical to its rapid financial turnaround from a $200,000 deficit to a $300,000 profit—a half-a-million-dollar swing from one fiscal year to the next.

Northern Oklahoma College recently installed not one but three Ricoh Pro digital printers. Customers have fallen in love with the quality color work the in-plant is now able to produce.

Since the purchase of a Konica Minolta bizhub C500 press five years ago, Jeff Davis, in-plant coordinator at Southwest Tennessee Community College, has been impressed with the quality of the machine. So when he decided to boost his in-plant's finishing capabilities, he went with two bizhub C6000 presses.

WHEN GARRY Boytos arrived at the University of Texas Health Science Center's in-plant (UT Print) in 2008, he faced a challenging situation. Boytos knew that to effectively compete with outside vendors, UT Print would have to make a lot of improvements.

Vendors reported a good amount of interest in bindery equipment at this year's GRAPH EXPO in Chicago. The bindery equipment at the show offered in-plants some great opportunities to expand their services and increase their efficiency.

Featuring a Rock ‘em Sock ‘em  robot theme to reinforce the message “no more miss punches,” GBC will introduce an evolutionary new “punch” at Graph Expo: the GBC Magnapunch 2.0 tabletop paper punch.

One of the more exciting acquisitions for the Print Solutions department at BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee in 2011 was a new four-color Presstek 75DI digital offset press with an aqueous coater. It joined the Print Solutions family in May.

Xerox debuted its DocuColor 8080 Digital Press, which can print at 80 pages per minute on paper weights up to 300 gsm. Designed to handle jobs ranging from direct mail and calendars to booklets and collateral, the 8080 uses a low gloss dry ink, which offers a smooth, matte-like finish.

Though digital printing equipment made the biggest splash at the On Demand Conference and Exposition in March, the Washington, D.C. show was chock full of bindery equipment too. IPG visited all of the major bindery vendors. Here's a look at what we saw.

GBC, a market leader in document finishing has recently introduced its first PVC free polypropylene binder to the market. With this new product introduction GBC helps businesses evolve by utilizing eco-friendly, ‘green’ binders.