Presstek Inc., a leading supplier of digital offset printing solutions to the printing and communications industries, announced that John Meyer has been promoted to vice president of marketing, reporting directly to Chairman, President and CEO Stan Freimuth. Meyer joined Presstek in March of 2010 and has held director-level roles in Presstek’s CTP business. Prior to joining Presstek, Meyer served in a number of sales and marketing roles at Fujifilm USA.
Presstek Inc. reported that its acquisition by an affiliate of American Industrial Partners Capital Fund IV (AIP) has been finalized. AIP is an operationally oriented, middle-market private-equity firm. Presstek’s shareholders will receive $0.50 in cash for each share of common stock.
Gone are the days when sheetfed offset presses dominated the Graph Expo show floor. The high costs involved to ship and set up a large, multicolor offset press at a show—coupled with a dearth of revolutionary technology developments to showcase—makes it hard to justify the expenditure.
At Graph Expo, digital press vendors highlighted their workflow and digital front end capabilities, enabling everything from transpromotional and variable data printing to ganging of smaller jobs into longer production runs. The emphasis was on automation, personalization and run-length optimization.
A year and a half ago, the University of Southern Indiana's Publishing Services operation was outsourcing 75 to 85 percent of its four-color work. This bothered Terri Bischoff, assistant director of Publishing Services, at the Evansville, Ind., school. She knew the university would be better served if her in-plant could gain control over this work, improve the quality and reduce turnaround times. To do this, though, would require some new equipment.
Quality, efficiency and cost. Those were the three areas that Penn State University’s Multimedia & Print Center (MPC) sought to improve when it recently installed a new Presstek 52DI digital offset press.
State government printers from around the country assembled in Denver last month for the 35th annual National Government Publishing Association (NGPA) conference. About 30 government attendees took part in the three-day event, which was titled "Exceptional Government and the Power of Partnership."
When Imaging Services at the University of Colorado at Boulder installed an HP Indigo 3050 six years ago, it certainly opened a few doors for the nine-employee in-plant. Customers started sending the shop their short-run color jobs almost right away. Over time, though, the in-plant realized the digital press wasn't the perfect solution for every kind of job.
Due to a growing demand for four-color work, the University of Southern Indiana’s Publishing Services operation installed a Presstek 52DI digital offset press. The 11-employee in-plant, based in Evansville, Ind., had been outsourcing much of this work, which it couldn't handle with its existing two-color presses or its Xerox 700.
Fujifilm will show the J Press 720 inkjet press. Heidelberg will present Prinect Digital Workflow Integration. New features for the Kodak NexPress platform will be shown.
