Pitney Bowes Inc., which experienced a devastating fire at it’s presort services facility in Grand Prairie, Texas, in February, will host a webinar Tuesday, October 18 on the importance of disaster recovery and contingency planning. The educational session will offer first-hand experience and best practices to help organizations of all sizes safeguard and strengthen their operations.
IN A CLASSIC "Peanuts" comic strip, Schroeder confronts Charlie Brown with scores of numbers to illustrate the ineptitude of their eternally winless baseball team. He builds quite a case, and when he finally finishes recounting the team's blundering exploits, Charlie Brown offers a curt reply.
The strong turnout of in-plants at Graph Expo took me by surprise. With all the travel cutbacks of recent years, I thought we'd have trouble filling seats at the roundtable luncheon we hosted; we ended up with a packed room. I could hardly turn a corner at the show without bumping into an in-plant manager.
One of the more exciting acquisitions for the Print Solutions department at BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee in 2011 was a new four-color Presstek 75DI digital offset press with an aqueous coater. It joined the Print Solutions family in May.
Named Mail Center of the Year by the In-Plant Printing and Mailing Association, Excellus BlueCross BlueShield's full-service mail facility received its award at IPMA's conference in Charleston, S.C. Catherine Ciardi, director of Document Services for the Rochester, N.Y.-based in-plant, accepted the award for her team of 15 mailing professionals.
Though digital printing equipment made the biggest splash at the On Demand Conference and Exposition in March, the Washington, D.C. show was chock full of bindery equipment too. IPG visited all of the major bindery vendors. Here's a look at what we saw.
Until a year and a half ago, match mailings were either done by hand at Penn State University's Multimedia & Print Center (MPC) or they were outsourced. The 60-employee in-plant had two older inserters from the '70s and '80s with limited capabilities.
Anyone who has approached or passed the half-century mark in life is familiar with the stream of mailings from AARP—the American Association of Retired People. Increasingly populated these days by Baby Boomers who adamantly refuse to acknowledge age as a limitation, the organization behind the mailings is a well-oiled machine that relies heavily on print and mail to acquire and service nearly 40 million loyal members. The lion's share of the print and mail that supports AARP's internal needs comes out of the Print Services operation at AARP's Washington, D.C., headquarters.
In this digital age, not everyone views the subject of printing in an optimistic light. But Catherine Ciardi feels she has the perfect surfboard underneath her to navigate and tame the wave of the future.
Join IPG Editor Bob Neubauer as he drives around central Pennsylvania, dropping in on in-plants along the way.
