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If you peek beneath the feathers and webbed feet of the iconic Aflac Duck advertising character, you will find an in-house inkjet printing powerhouse that produces a heavy print workload for insurance industry giant Aflac’s wide customer base.

When the Pinnacol Print Shop installed a new Xerox Color 1000 in November, it was intended to produce invoices and statements for the Denver-based worker’s compensation provider. But the in-plant quickly learned that its new digital color press would allow it to produce Pinnacol Assurance’s collateral materials in-house as well—work that was previously being outsourced.

In June of 2014, 16 employees of Print, Mail, Copy (PMC) Solutions at the University of Arkansas were called into a conference room. Each one received a letter explaining that in two years, offset printing, which had been losing money, would be phased out of the in-plant and they would not be part of the plan moving forward.

The Oklahoma City chapter of IPMA met recently to take a tour of American Fidelity Assurance Company’s in-plant.

New from Xerox and Fotoba, the Fotoba FHS42 Cutter is a wide-format cutting solution that runs inline with the Xerox Wide Format IJP 2000.

John Alden, a former Xerox executive, has taken the vice president of sales position at Avanti Computer Systems.

“Just being in the room when decisions are being made, a lot of times, is the biggest challenge” for in-plants, declares Chuck Werninger, director of Administrative Services at the Houston Independent School District (HISD). “A lot of shops are deleted from the plan before they ever hear about the plan.”

Xerox's annual Business Innovation Partner of the Year Awards were announced on Monday, recognizing the company's partners that help Xerox customers increase their business opportunities and success.

EFI Fiery digital front ends are now available for the latest Xerox digital presses. The Xerox EX-i 80 Print Server and EX 80 Print Server Powered by Fiery are available on the Xerox Versant 80 press, while the Xerox EX-P 1000i Print Server Powered by Fiery is available for Xerox Color 800i/1000i presses.

Xerox's latest digital color technology has been unveiled, including the Versant 80, which has been designed with in-plants in mind. The company has also released the new Color 800i and 1000i presses, along with new metallic gold and silver inks.