Ricoh Americas has launched 1to1 Create Marketing Services, a new cloud-based subscription service, powered by PTI Marketing Technologies, that is aimed to help small- to medium-sized print service providers create, launch, track, manage, modify and optimize turnkey cross-media marketing campaigns.
Despite some chilly spring weather, Milwaukee gave a warm welcome to the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association last month. More than 130 in-plant managers were on hand to celebrate IPMA's 50th anniversary during a very busy conference. Their ranks included many first-time and long-absent attendees, which added a new dynamic to the discussions throughout the four-day event. A number of government printers from the National Government Publishing Association, now part of IPMA, were there this year, as well as two attendees from Australia.
The recent Association of College and University Printers conference may have taken place in sunny Phoenix, Ariz., but it was no vacation. The 82 managers who traveled there from all over the world came for answers and advice on how to keep their in-plants thriving in these trying times. The three days of intensive educational sessions did not disappoint them.
Continuous-feed production inkjet is an exciting, evolving market. Average annual growth since 2010 has been at 93 percent, according to IT Strategies; in 2013 alone, 146 billion pages were printed globally with continuous-feed inkjet. Market-Intell estimates that this represents 350,000 tons of paper in North America in 2013.
After nearly 20 years in a cramped, subterranean facility with uneven floors and equipment in different rooms, Mark Tindell was more than ready to move his in-plant. The director of Mail and Print Services at Columbia College says space was so tight he even had a wide-format printer crammed into his office.
Adding a high-speed, production inkjet press is not a "build it and they will come" endeavor. Before moving forward, you'll need a formal strategy in place that anticipates more than simply transferring jobs from existing offset or toner-based presses.
Held at the Ponte Vedra Inn & Club in Florida, the Inkjet Summit is an invitation-only, hosted event designed for senior managers and business executives from print providers and corporate enterprises that are looking to develop strategies, understand their options and make major investment decisions around inkjet printing technology.
Ricoh has become a member of Two Sides North America, the rapidly growing non-profit organization that promotes the responsible production, use and sustainability of print and paper. "We’re very excited to have Ricoh join our organization and look forward to working with them to promote the many benefits provided by the use of sustainably produced print and paper," said Two Sides President Phil Riebel.
More than 200 people flocked to the Ponte Vedra Inn for the second annual Inkjet Summit. These included almost 90 senior managers and business executives interested in purchasing a production inkjet press—in some cases their second or third machine.
The Inkjet Summit 2014 will kick off on Monday morning at the Ponte Vedra Inn & Club in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Conference Chair Marco Boer, VP of IT Strategies, will offer the opening keynote followed by a panel of leading vendors (Canon Solutions America, Fujifilm, International Paper and Ricoh) discussing what we can expect to see from inkjet systems in the future.
