At Graph Expo this week, IPG Editor Bob Neubauer got a chance to sit down with Xerox CEO Ursula Burns and a small group of trade magazine editors. He asked her point blank about the recent upsurge in efforts by Xerox to push its document outsourcing expertise, while simultaneously selling equipment to in-plants at those very organizations.
A year after the disappointing attendance levels of PRINT 09, this week's Graph Expo 2010 seemed like a real trade show again. The aisles were full of people, who massed around new products, and kept vendors busy with demos.
Charlie Holden knew that something had to be done about four-color work at the Houston Independent School District. Her in-plant’s two-color Komori press was 22 years old and produced an awful lot of spoilage each time the in-plant used it to print four-color jobs. And customers, in need of faster turnaround, were relying on color copiers, using them for volumes they were never meant to produce.
The in-plant serving The Cincinnati Insurance Companies demonstrates a talent for saving, finding and making all the time necessary to reduce costs and satisfy ultra-tight turnaround requirements.
Temple University Duplicating Services has installed what may be the highest Xerox iGen4 in the city of Philadelphia—and possibly the region. The 11-employee in-plant recently fired up its new digital color press on the 10th floor of a university building.
Temple University Duplicating Services has installed what may be the highest Xerox iGen4 in the city of Philadelphia.
Adding color printing capabilities can bring a big boost in business for an in-plant. That’s what happened at Rhodes State College, in Lima, Ohio recently. Until last fall, the three-employee in-plant printed only black-and-white jobs. All color printing was outsourced.
One technology that may be finding a home on your shop floor is inkjet printing. If the hopes and dreams of equipment providers play out, full-color inkjet presses may soon coexist alongside offset and electrophotographic systems.
When art students graduate from Longwood University, they will leave with higher-quality portfolios than ever thanks to some recent additions in the in-plant. The five-employee shop, in rural Farmville, Va., has added two wide-format printers: a 54˝ Xerox 8254E color printer, and a 36˝ Xerox 6604 black-and-white printer with a color scanner.
Temple University Duplicating Services has installed what may be the highest Xerox iGen4 in the city of Philadelphia—and possibly the region. In February the 11-employee in-plant fired up its new digital color press on the 10th floor of Temple's Wachman Hall.
