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Big changes are taking place at the San Bernardino Community College District. The in-plant there recently added new computer-to-plate, cutting and creasing equipment, and is set to move into a new facility that’s three times the size of the old one.

Robert C. Ross Jr., CEO and founder of Xanté, will be the keynote speaker for The Tiara Group Toners 2014 Conference in Santa Barbara, Calif., from June 2-4. In his keynote address, Ross will also represent Memjet.

It is not altogether clear whether Catherine Chambers believed in fate when it came to choosing her career as an in-plant manager.  As the director of Printing and Mail Services at Virginia Tech sees it, it just “kind of happened.”

Winter was just settling in at the University of Cincinnati's campus back in January of 2012 when the sneak attack came. Agents from the facilities management (FM) arm of a popular print equipment vendor set up a meeting with the university's financial committee. With no one from the in-plant present, they began dishing out promises of cost savings if the university allowed the FM to handle its printing.

Hidden deep inside New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) is an art studio of a different sort—a graphic arts operation responsible for producing high-quality printed pieces in support of the iconic museum. With a four-color Ryobi 784 EP perfecting press, as well as Konica Minolta bizhub PRESS C8000 and C6000 color printers, the busy 11-employee in-plant prints projects the MET's quality-conscious designers can be proud of.

The start of each new semester at Nassau Community College in Garden City, N.Y., is not only a busy and stressful time for professors, faculty and the more than 25,000 students; the pressure is also on the eight-employee in-plant to produce a variety of classroom materials, marketing pieces and signage for the campus.

Konica Minolta has acquired a minority stake in MGI Digital Graphic Technology, and the two have formed a strategic alliance aimed at accelerating the innovation and commercialization of next generation digital printing solutions.

In an effort to expand its reach in the Southeast Florida region, Konica Minolta has acquired CopySource Inc., which will operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Konica Minolta. CopySource will maintain its current locations in Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach Counties.

Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A.'s parent company Konica Minolta, has joined the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC), a coalition of about 90 leading global electronics companies that seeks to improve efficiency and social, ethical and environmental responsibility in the global supply chain.