Xerox Corp.

We asked five in-plant managers to tell us what they learned and what they wish they’d known before installing a digital color press.

How do you make one of the industry’s most productive digital production color platforms even better?

Last week in Rochester, NY, Xerox held a two-day in-plant executive summit that brought together scores of in-plant managers.

Production inkjet printing may have been an up-and-coming technology a few years ago, but today it’s a proven, profitable market that’s bringing big success to those printers wise enough to take advantage of it.

The Digital Printing in Government and Higher-Ed Conference, hosted by In-plant Graphics, drew in-plant managers from universities, local governments and other organizations around the country.

Xerox has invested nearly $35 million into an expansion project for its EA toner production plant. The expansion is expected to increase Xerox's toner capacity by 40 percent.

Several companies debuted wide-format products this week at FESPA, a global exhibition for wide-format digital, screen and textile print, held in Cologne, Germany. EFI, Xerox and HP were among the companies showing off new technology.

Several in-plant managers trekked to Washington, DC last week for the debut Digital Printing in Government & Higher-Ed Conference, hosted by In-plant Graphics. Many attendees have since expressed their appreciation for the day-long conference.

And you thought Xerox just manufactured digital printing equipment and supplies. Apparently, the Norwalk, CT, firm dabbles in the undercover investigation business as well, following stings that helped collar black market thieves and return more than a million dollars worth of pilfered goods.

Rex Dietrich says his in-plant had a “need for speed”—and it wasn’t because of its proximity to one of the world’s most famous racetracks. It was because the Xerox 700 he was running at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Printing and Duplicating Services in Daytona Beach, FL, simply wasn’t fast enough.