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The World Bank’s Printing & Multimedia Services operation has become one of the first in-plants to install a production inkjet press. Last month, the 42-employee in-plant fired up an HP T230 Color Inkjet Web Press in its Landover, Md., facility, 11 miles away from downtown Washington, D.C. With duplex printing speeds of 400 feet per minute, the inkjet press is a quantum leap over the speeds of the in-plant’s two Kodak NexPress 3000s and Océ ColorStream 10000. In fact, the first job run on the T230—800 copies of a 92-page book—would normally have taken up to eight hours to print.

Meeks Litho, based in Tulsa, OK, recently embarked on its 51st year in business. The company has flourished tremendously over the years growing to become one of the three biggest printing concerns in Tulsa. Meeks boasts 45 employees and a 65,000-square-foot facility, not to mention a fascinating combination of printing formats and capabilities that truly highlights the beauty, bold range and fun aspects of printing.

Commercial printer equipment installations and other news from Printing Impressions’ April 2013 edition, featuring Suttle-Straus Inc. and Ross Printing.

PALO ALTO, CA—HP has announced the worldwide commercial availability of the HP Indigo 10000 digital press, with 16 units already installed to date.

Eric Hawkinson’s resignation from SmithBucklin, the company that manages Dscoop, does not mean that he will be leaving the graphic arts industry. Francis McMahon, vice president of marketing for Canon Solutions America (CSA), has confirmed that Hawkinson will be joining CSA effective April 1 as director of marketing for production printing.

The HP Indigo 10000 digital press debuted at drupa 2012 and underwent beta testing by 10 PSPs across the globe beginning in September 2012. Many of the beta customers, including Courier, Pureprint Group and Sandy Alexander, are considering adding a second unit. Installation of production units are expected to start this month.

CCS Printing has installed a new HP Indigo 7600 digital press at its facility in Bellevue, WA. "We invested in the Indigo to broaden the types of projects we can print and to improve turnaround," said Kevin Sullivan, president of CCS Printing. "The Indigo allows us to print on a wider variety of substrates including synthetics and static clings, heavier board weight stocks and pre-die cut packaging applications.

Attendee turnout at the 2013 Dscoop Annual Conference that ran February 21-23 at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel and Convention Center in Nashville, TN, marked a 30 percent increase in core North American attendees from last year’s event and included attendees from 38 countries around the world. In addition, 95 Partners participated in the Solutions Showcase exhibition.

In-plants, commercial printers, designers and technology experts spent three days together in Nashville last week attending the eighth annual Dscoop conference, geared toward users of HP Indigo and HP Scitex technology. More than 2,000 people packed the auditorium at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel and Convention Center for the opening keynote address, by Mark King, CEO of TaylorMade.

More than 2,000 enthusiastic HP users packed the auditorium at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel and Convention Center in Nashville last month for the opening of the eighth annual Dscoop conference, a gathering of graphic arts business owners and technical professionals who use HP equipment. The three-day meeting included scores of educational sessions geared toward HP users, as well as an exhibit area with nearly 100 partners showing equipment and software designed to work with HP equipment.