RISO Inc.

Take a quick tour of the PRINT 09 show floor with IPG Editor Bob Neubauer.

Though attendance was noticeably down on the first three days of Print 09, by Monday morning it was starting to look like a trade show again. Booths were packed with attendees, and vendors were busy giving demos, trying to capitalize of the sudden resurgence of interest after a lackluster weekend. IPG spent four days at the show, and the first three...let's just say we never had any problem finding someone to talk with at vendors' booths. Perhaps the beautiful Chicago weekend weather lured many to delay their arrival. (Or maybe it was the questionable wisdom of starting a trade show on a Friday.) Whatever the reason, though, by Monday morning, attendees arrived with a vengeance, including scores of in-plants managers.

RISO plans to open a branch in Boston one week from tomorrow, the day after it acquires the customer base of Riso dealer RPB Systems & Services. The new branch will serve the entire state of Massachusetts.

Pitney Bowes will now offer Riso’s HC5500 color ink-jet printer to U.S. customers. The HC5500 works in conjunction with a broad array of Pitney Bowes products, including its mail management software and inserters, to form a complete “print-to-mail” solution in a cut-sheet environment.

“Our collaboration with Riso is a natural fit with our integrated printing and mailing solutions,” said Mark Pollack, vice president, marketing, U.S. Mailing for Pitney Bowes. “The HC5500 offers our customers a high-speed, low-cost color ink-jet printing solution that can help increase operational efficiency and convenience with the creation and printing of documents in-house with a broad array of Pitney Bowes products.”

So much work had been flooding into one school district in-plant that the manager knew something had to be done. Test booklets, recruitment brochures, covers for student handbooks and many other items were testing the limits of the eight-employee in-plant’s equipment. To handle the work, the shop recently added a long list of new equipment—including a Xerox iGen3—and built a 3,000-square-foot addition to house it all. New on the shop floor are: • A Xerox iGen3 90 digital color press • A second Kodak Digimaster 9110 with an inline bookletmaker • A C.P. Bourg bookletmaker for the shop’s other 9110 • Two Konica Minolta

Last month’s TransPromo Summit in New York was certainly upbeat in its predictions for this new marketing technique. Keynote Speaker Barb Pellow, of InfoTrends, pointed to data predicting a 68 percent compound annual growth rate for transpromo over the next four years. Most of the speakers backed this up with case studies and research indicating that customers are receptive to reading relevant marketing messages on their statements and bills. The 300 vendors, marketers and printers in attendance were certainly primed to hear this. They received numerous tips on how to initiate and carry out transpromo campaigns. Dozens of vendors were on hand to discuss

DANVERS, MA— January 4, 2008— RISO, Inc. announced a new partnership with Blanks/USA today, offering yet another value-added support tool to North American RISO dealers. A competitive new price structure represents great value in the Blanks/USA products frequently utilized by RISO’s customer base. RISO digital duplicators and full color inkjet printers are well known for their ability to reliably feed and print a wide variety of paper stocks and sizes. Blanks/USA provides affordable die-cut papers, including business cards, door hangers, tab dividers, report covers, tickets, table tents, and tags. “RISO duplicators have a unique capability of printing on paper stocks of up to 220 lb.

As printers gear up for Graph Expo, this look back at the On Demand show provides an excellent preview of what to expect in Chicago.

Macedonia Gospel Publications Int’l., of Braselton, Ga., the in-plant for Macedonia World Baptist Missions, just added a Canon imageRUNNER 3220 color printer. Richard Vance, prepress production supervisor, says it has “revolutionized the way the missionaries keep in contact with their supporting churches.” Missionaries can include color photos and graphics in their monthly or bimonthly updates to their supporting churches. LifeSprings, a Christian publisher, printer and multi-media developer in Franklin Springs, Ga., recently installed a Canon imageRUNNER 110 with a booklet maker, a Hamada A252P press, a DPX plate system and a Presstek Dimension 800 computer-to-plate system. The Archdiocese of Detroit has added a black-and-white digital Canon

THIS YEAR’S AIIM/On Demand Conference & Expo certainly had some obstacles to overcome in its first year at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center. With the Boston Marathon running on the show’s opening day, hotel rooms were at a premium. Then a storm assaulted the city, discouraging some from driving in. And as if that weren’t enough, the show had to compete with other industry events, such as the Association of College and University Printers conference, taking place at the same time in San Francisco, and the PrintFest trade show, which kicked off later that week in Long Beach, Calif. Despite all