Xerox Corp.

The day we spoke with Wilma Grant, there were demonstrations taking place outside her office at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., where she’s spent nearly 30 years leading the Court’s publishing and in-plant printing facility. “Never a dull moment,” she laughs as she pauses the conversation long enough to close her office door. It’s a passing comment, but when you get to know Wilma Grant—personally or professionally—you’d understand that it’s really an apt description of the life she’s led. Born to a coal-miner father and a mother who was a registered nurse, Grant spent the first 17 years of her life in

THROUGHOUT MY years as editor of IPG, what I’ve enjoyed most has been meeting the managers who make up this industry. I’ve found them to be extremely approachable and accommodating, and I count many of them among my friends. One man I’ve run into at conferences a few times over the years is Wes Friesen, who oversees Portland General Electric’s in-plant. Our last meeting, at the TransPromo Summit in New York, inspired me to pursue a feature story about his printing operation. Imagine my surprise when I learned I wasn’t the only one impressed with his in-plant. NAPL has just announced

SERVING A major utilities company like Portland General Electric (PGE) can be a challenge, to say the least. After all, PGE provides power to over 1.5 million people in Oregon, covering 52 cities in a 4,000-square-mile radius. Its in-plant, Print and Mail Services, handles virtually all of PGE’s printing in its 7,000-square-foot facility. This includes customer billing and notices, mapping books for the line crews, training manuals, engineering/architectural drawings, presentations, self-mailers and more. This amounted to 35 million pages and 12 million mail pieces in 2007. Despite this monumental workload, the 13-employee in-plant has not only impressed PGE with its proficiency, it

To give its brand a more contemporary, less formal look, Xerox has come up with a new logo. The Xerox name now appears in lowercase red letters and sits next to a sphere-shaped symbol sketched with lines that link to form an “X.” This represents Xerox’s connections to its customers, partners, industry and innovation. The new logo was reportedly designed to be more effectively animated for use in multi-media platforms. To create the logo, Xerox conducted extensive global research with employees, customers and partners. Xerox will now start changing the logo on products, facilities, vehicles and marketing materials in a transition that

In a similar pre-Drupa briefing in Düsseldorf, Xerox detailed some of its own Drupa plans, which include: • The launch of Xerox’s fastest-yet continuous-feed monochrome printing system, the Xerox 650/1300 Continuous Feed Printing System. It can print up to 1,308 duplex 8.5x11˝ images per minute using dry toner, xerographic imaging and flash-fusing technology. • A look inside non-contact flash fusing, which Xerox calls “a major technology breakthrough in high-speed color printing.” It enables color xerographic continuous-feed printers to achieve speeds of nearly 500 color pages per minute.

DÜSSELDORF, GERMANY—01/22/08—Four months before the start of drupa 2008, print media trade fair, the exhibitor registration reflects the international market situation and industry developments. Consequently, the leading technology producing nations will be the most strongly represented countries at drupa 2008: Germany (745,100 sq. ft.), Italy (148,200 sq. ft.), the U.S. (142,600 sq. ft.), Switzerland (130,500 sq. ft.), Netherlands (99,100 sq. ft.), Japan (89,200 sq. ft.), the UK (80,000 sq. ft.), Belgium (70,800 sq. ft.) and Spain (68,600 sq. ft.). Exhibit space booked by emerging industrial countries such as China and India has increased considerably: by 300% for China (84,700 sq. ft.) and 60% for

Xerox Corp. has unveiled a new corporate identity. The re-imagined brand is designed to reflect today’s Xerox, a customer-centric company built on a continuing history of innovative ideas, products and services that meet the needs of businesses small to large, according to the company. “We have transformed Xerox into a business that connects closely with customers in a content-rich digital marketplace,” said Anne M. Mulcahy, Xerox chairman and CEO. “Our new brand reflects who we are, the markets we serve and the innovation that differentiates us in our industry. We have expanded into new markets, created new businesses, acquired new capabilities, developed technologies that

NORWALK, CT—Jan. 07, 2008—Xerox Corp. (NYSE: XRX) today unveiled the most sweeping transformation of its corporate identity in the company’s history. The new brand is designed to reflect today’s Xerox, a customer-centric company built on a continuing history of innovative ideas, products and services that meet the needs of businesses small to large. “We have transformed Xerox into a business that connects closely with customers in a content-rich digital marketplace,” said Anne M. Mulcahy, Xerox chairman and chief executive officer. “Our new brand reflects who we are, the markets we serve and the innovation that differentiates us in our industry. We have expanded into new

“IT’S NOT that easy being green,” sang Kermit the Frog in “The Sesame Street Book and Record.” But more than 35 years after Kermit’s song debuted, it’s not only easier to be “green,” it’s actually cool to make green choices and acquire green products. A broader environmental awareness from corporations and consumers has pushed advancements in green technology despite the significant investment, research and innovation required to develop green products. Companies are sourcing paper from suppliers dedicated to sustainable forest management and offering multipurpose papers with up to 100 percent post-consumer recycled content. One of these companies is Xerox, which happens to be

HANDS DOWN, GPO topped our tallies of the largest in-plants last month. But the Government Printing Office has moved far beyond its middle name, putting it in a much different league than other in-plants. IPG editor Bob Neubauer recently talked with new U.S. Public Printer Robert C. Tapella about the future of GPO’s in-house printing operation and of the new ways GPO is handling the digital information it is charged with collecting and making available. >>> Offset vs. Digital Printing at GPO Robert Tapella: “Even though we’re making significant increases in what we’re doing digitally, we are still a majority offset factory. We