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As printers gear up for Graph Expo, this look back at the On Demand show provides an excellent preview of what to expect in Chicago.

NEW YORK CITY—August 7, 2007—Printing Industries Alliance, formerly known as the Printing and Imaging Association of New York State, has announced that internationally known lifestyle communicator Martha Stewart has been named the recipient of the 2007 Franklin Award, which recognizes the achievements of outstanding leaders and communicators. The award will be presented during the Association’s Franklin Event on Tuesday evening, September 18, at Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers in New York City. A New Host This is the first time the Franklin Event will be hosted by the Printing Industries Alliance. “We are happy to have this opportunity to host the Franklin Event which has been

In-plant managers from across the country gathered in Oklahoma City last week for the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association conference. Three days of sessions, roundtables, plant tours and vendor visits equipped attendees with lots of great information to bring back to their in-plants. Keynote speaker Josh Davis, a three-time Gold medalist in the 1996 Olympics, spoke of his journey to become a swimming champ, even after his first coach suggested he switch sports. He described how having an “attitude of gratitude” for the good things in his life has motivated him to do the things he didn’t want to do. In-plants broke into groups by

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

Four distinguished industry executives have been appointed to the Board of Directors of New York University’s Graphic Communications Graduate M.A. Program. • Werner Naegeli, President and Chief Executive Officer of U.S. operations for Muller Martini Corp. • Francis A. McMahon, Director of Marketing, Digital Printing Solutions and Sales Organization, Imaging and Printing Group, at Hewlett-Packard. • Richard Schadle, Vice President, Worldwide Sales at XMPie, a Xerox company. • Stanley E. Freimuth, Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer of Fujifilm U.S.A. The Board is a prestigious advisory body for the program, which offers curricula to develop the next generation of leaders in the graphics industry. On a pro bono

While many small in-plants only dream of adding a large digital color press, Printing Services at Georgia Perimeter College made that dream happen four years ago when the five-employee shop installed an HP Indigo 1000. Though Associate Director Barbara Lindsay originally thought she would justify the press based on the variable data printing opportunities it would create, so far the digital press’s on-demand color capabilities are what have made it such a success at the Clarkston, Ga., college. “Our business cards and our letterhead were all three-color,” she says. “This was relatively expensive to have printed outside.” With the HP

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

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

Though it has just seven employees, Northeast Wisconsin Technical College Printing Services installed a new HP Indigo 3050 digital press last August. How? By agreeing to use it for both academic and production purposes. “The educational tie-in was the primary reason we got this press,” testifies John M. Reinders, applied print technology instructor. “It was purchased by our academic program with the understanding that we would use the press. Without this connection with our printing program we would not have this device on our floor.” When the press isn’t being used to prepare students for digital print careers, it is busy producing full-color printing for the

PALO ALTO, CA—March 7, 2007—HP today announced that more than 2.5 million photo books and calendars were printed worldwide on HP Indigo presses during the 2006 holiday season(1). With more than 240 HP Indigo presses installed at customer sites producing photo specialty products around the world, HP Indigo customers produced more than 7 million photo books and calendars, totaling approximately 440 million digital photo pages, during the 2006 calendar year. “This record-breaking holiday season reflects the fact that HP Indigo technology, which offers the industry’s highest image quality and unsurpassed reliability, is the preferred digital publishing solution in the photo specialty market, answering customers’ needs