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The Electronic Document Systems Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the document management and communications marketplace, has announced its 2007 Board of Directors and officers. Retiring Chair of EDSF, Brian Baxendale, who served in the position for five years, will be succeeded by new EDSF Chair Quincy L. Allen, corporate vice president and president, Production Systems Group, Xerox. The 2007 EDSF Executive Co-Vice Chairs are Don F. Lowe, CEO, Franchise Services, and Tod D. Pike, senior vice president, Imaging Systems Group, Canon U.S.A. The Secretary-Treasurer will be Wolfgang Pfizenmaier, Heidelberg Americas (retired).

OFFSET PRESSES continue to pull their weight amidst the flashy digital printers that have been popping up in offices nationwide. These digital newcomers might be great for short-run work, but for big projects they still must step aside and let ye olde offset workhorses do their thing. Don’t think being called “old” is an insult, though. The longevity of these machines is impressive and can easily add up to decades. Jim VanderWal, production manager at CRC Product Services in Grand Rapids, Mich., says that his shop’s four-color Heidelberg SM102 was purchased in 1989 and the two-color Heidelberg SM72 dates back to 1975. Over

AS FALLING leaves carpet the University of Tennessee’s Knoxville campus, so has the autumn of Gary Williford’s career arrived. After 34 years at the university—30 of them in the in-plant—Williford plans to retire in a few months from his role as manager of the school’s Graphic Arts Service department. But while others might view their final days as an opportunity to kick back and coast to an easy farewell, Williford has insisted on pushing forward, preparing his 55-employee operation for the days after his departure. “I owe this organization. It’s been good to me. It’s a part of my life,” he explains. “I want

KENNESAW, GA—September 20, 2006—Following the success of its systemservice 36plus program announced at PRINT 05, Heidelberg will establish the next milestone in service offerings with the unveiling of its new Partner Program at Graph Expo 2006. Show attendees can learn more about Heidelberg’s new service offerings in the systemservicearea of Heidelberg’s booth #1200 at the tradeshow, which is being held in Chicago at McCormick Place on Oct. 15-18. The Heidelberg Partner Program is a suite of 20 customized services that provides customers with the flexibility to select the services that best meet their needs. With the new program, customers can build their own service plan

FOR THE second year in a row I spent a few days with Canadian in-plant managers recently at the College and University Print Management Association of Canada (CUPMAC) conference. It took place this year in St. John’s, Newfoundland, which sits on an island so far east you can almost touch Europe. Even the local accents have a strong dose of Irish in them. The cliffs, the colorful wooden houses, the view of the harbor from atop Signal Hill, all left me with pleasant memories, as did the rare string of sunny days that accompanied the conference. Memorial University of Newfoundland hosted CUPMAC, which is similar

To support its 5,400 missionaries and 800 missions serving the poor all over the world, Franciscan Missions needs to produce very effective fundraising materials. For that reason, its six-employee in-plant in Burlington, Wis., recently replaced its four-color Heidelberg GTO with a four-color Heidelberg Printmaster PM 52. “The make-ready time is really quick,” reports Jeremy Hanna, production manager. “And the cleanup time too,” he adds, thanks to the press’s auto blanket wash feature. The in-plant uses the press to print fundraising brochures, newsletters, flyers and greeting cards. It sends out about 20,000 mailings each day. “We find that the brochures are more attractive in four-color,” Hanna says. “We

IN-PLANTS DEPEND heavily upon the skills of a few key individuals to remain productive: production managers, bindery operators, prepress technicians, computer systems managers, or any number of other specialized personnel that are a part of the print production workflow. When one or more of these people are absent, the whole workflow may suffer. Many in-plants are turning to workflow systems to help mitigate this problem. Workflow systems help to standardize how we process jobs. When we rely on key individuals, we are depending on them to remember what they did last time to solve a problem, or how to most efficiently move a job

WHEN IT’S time to shop for a saddle stitcher, automation, quick setup and ease of makeready are neccesities. But what other new features are available that might help your in-plant? And how should you go about comparing equipment? We talked with saddle stitching experts at several companies to get their tips and ideas to help you get the best machine for your in-plant. Buying Tips When comparing equipment, examine a range of format sizes and provide job samples (floating cards, envelopes) to equipment manufacturers, ensuring the best possible fit for your shop’s individual needs. —Steven Calov, Heidelberg USA Look for a line that will

THE COLLEGE and University Print Management Association of Canada (CUPMAC) scored something of a coup this year. It succeeded in convincing popular industry speaker Frank Romano, professor emeritus at Rochester Institute of Technology, to address the group’s 39th annual conference, way up in St. John’s, Newfoundland, the most eastern point in North America (unless you count Greenland). Actually, Romano did more than just “address” the 39 managers in attendance. He captivated and amused them as well, while leading four sessions over the conference’s three-day span. And when he wasn’t at the front of the room, he watched the other presenters (among them a

Looking for new wrinkles in offset printing innovation, Sun Chemical and Heidelberg have decided to work together on new projects in order to bring additional value to the customers of both industry heavyweights. The companies pooled their reserch and development in offset press inking, which helped pave the way for Heidelberg’s new ‘Anicolor’ unit, a highlight in the Speedmaster SM 52 sheetfed press that was launched at IPEX. The unit, which has no inking zones, makes it possible to produce even the shortest of runs using a standard offset workflow, only with significantly higher margins.