Pitney Bowes' Management Services business unit was awarded a contract for Managed Print Services (MPS) by The Cooperative Purchasing Network (TCPN) in Houston. Under this agreement, state and local government agencies in Texas and other states are able to purchase MPS solutions from Pitney Bowes using a significantly streamlined procurement process.
Pitney Bowes is reorganizing its business operations and has named Mark Shearer and Mark Wright to senior roles within the company. They will both will report directly to President and CEO Marc Lautenbach.
In order to meet Aflac’s objectives of creating more personal and relevant supplemental insurance communications for its clients, Pitney Bowes replaced Aflac’s existing toner-based monochrome printing devices with its IntelliJet 20 printing system. This enabled the insurance provider to produce monthly statements in full color using 100 percent variable data.
What is striking about the round of installations this year over last, we are hearing about far fewer installation problems and challenges with substrates. We are hearing more about the costs and need to expand post-processing capabilities rather than installation or performance of the presses themselves. Business cases are still strong but, unlike the earliest adopters, those needs were not as acute, so they had the luxury of hanging back and biding their time until that time was right.
Commercial printing industry supplier company and personnel news from Printing Impressions’ February 2013 edition, featuring Xerox Corp., Appleton Coated, Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., DocuSource, C&W Pressroom Products, Central Ink, Xingraphics, MBO America, Roland DGA, Navitor Inc., Glunz & Jensen, NELA Ternes Register Group, Duplo USA, Eltosch America, DeVries, manroland sheetfed, Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI), xpedx, Printing Research Inc., Presstek Inc., Graphic Innovators and Pitney Bowes.
Rich Bauer, superintendent of Printing and Duplicating Services at Southern Illinois University, updated his Carbondale, Ill., in-plant with several pieces of new bindery equipment last year, including a Morgana DigiFold Pro creaser/folder, a Morgana CardXtra automatic business card slitter, Xyron 4400 laminator, a second Pitney Bowes DI 950 four-feeder tower with inserter, and a Konica Minolta bizhub PRESS 1250 with in-line finishing features.
Ever since he arrived at Elon University three years ago as manager of Printing Services, Wesley Grigg has had one overriding mission: “My goal was to change it from a ‘copy shop’ to being a full service printer,” he says of his three-employee in-plant, based in Elon, N.C. With this in mind, his first move was to install a Ricoh Pro C900 in 2010 and start printing more of the university’s high-quality color printing.
As he wraps up his career at the University of North Texas this month, retiring Director Jimmy Friend has made one last addition to his in-plant’s impressive arsenal of equipment: a new Pitney Bowes Mailstream Engage envelope converter.
In-plant Graphics visited the State of Colorado's award-winning Integrated Document Solutions operation for a look at its advanced printing and mailing technologies.
Helping customers save time and money is every in-plant's mission. So when Sun Life Financial's Document Services Group discovered that a department was hiring temps to manually stuff envelopes—and taking a week to 10 days to do it—John Moschilli had to take action.
