Ricoh Corp.

It wasn’t too long ago that temporary employees would sit at round tables in the Oregon State Capitol, sorting and organizing stacks of pre-session legislative bills to be sent to various lobbyists and agencies.

Improving and upgrading technology is nothing new for the eight-employee in-plant, which lies about an hour east of downtown Los Angeles, in the foothills of the scenic San Bernardino Mountains. But as services like shredding and wide-format printing have been added and expanded to better serve the needs of the university, Printing Services still values its offset capabilities.

For years, in-plant managers saw him at all their conferences. They read his columns in IPG. Then he vanished. IPG's chief sleuth gets to the bottom of the "Disappearing Cholmondeley Mystery" in a new video.

It’s hard to improve on a winning formula, but EFI has continued to raise the bar for its Connect users’ conference as illustrated by last month’s 15th annual event in Las Vegas. Approximately 1,500 attendees—1,000 of them EFI customers from 25 different countries (a 20 percent jump from the previous year)—gathered at The Wynn Las Vegas for four days of educational and breakout sessions, plus several keynote presentations.

Hot products for in-plants from companies including Riso, Canon U.S.A., Xanté, Fujifilm North America, Roland, Heidelberg, On Demand Machinery and Agfa Graphics

The next generation of digital printing systems from Heidelberg is set to launch, expanding on the company's strategic relationship with Ricoh. The Linoprint CV and Linoprint CP will replace the C751 and C901 models.

All over the country, in-plants of every size are looking beyond traditional print services for additional lines of business that will endear them to their customers while generating needed revenue. Services like scanning, shredding, garment printing, framing and many others are well within the grasp of in-plants.

More than 150 book publishers, book manufacturers and suppliers met at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square recently for the first Digital Book Printing Conference, organized by IPG's parent company, NAPCO Media (formerly North American Publishing Co.) The networking and educational event featured an insightful keynote from Marco Boer, VP of IT Strategies.

After a previous investment in PTI Marketing Technologies, Ricoh has made the move to acquire the marketing asset management and solutions provider.

More than 150 book publishers, book manufacturers and suppliers met at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square recently for the first Digital Book Printing Conference, organized by IPG's parent company, North American Publishing Co. IPG Editor Bob Neubauer was at the networking and educational event, which featured an insightful keynote from Marco Boer, VP of IT Strategies.