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FOR 30 years now the Texas Association of College and University Printers (TACUP) has been meeting all over Texas. Last month, the University of North Texas (UNT) played host to the group, which included 42 managers from in-plants as far south as Brownsville, on the Mexico border. An affable group, they networked their way through 21/2 days of sessions and plant tours, finding plenty of time to laugh and learn. UNT’s Jimmy Friend modeled the conference’s theme on the TV reality show “Survivor,” splitting attendees into two tribes, the Inkadinkas and the Paperwampus. Members fielded questions throughout the event, getting points for correct answers.

SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA—11/12/07—Several international companies sensitive to the issues of sustainability have stepped up to do something about it. Kodak, Mohawk Papers, Quebecor World, and Xerox are initial sponsors of the upcoming sustainability conference at Cal Poly, titled “The Business of Green Media.” The conference, set for Jan. 24, will bring together leaders in the production of sustainable media. Sessions will focus on the business challenges and opportunities that face the graphic arts community and those involved in media production. This includes printers, publishers, packaging companies, advertising agencies, graphic designers, Web and Internet site developers, and equipment manufacturers and supply vendors, and educators. A reception

Xerox has updated its Web site to showcase its workflow offerings for digital presses and printers. The site (www.xerox.com/freeflow) details Xerox’s FreeFlow Digital Workflow Collection and features: • A comparison of print operations before and after the implementation of a digital workflow solution. • Detailed product information which outlines targeted solutions designed to increase the productivity and profitability of print shops. • Case studies of Xerox customers who have employed FreeFlow solutions. • Examples of revenue-generating digital print applications that are enabled by FreeFlow, including collateral by request, direct mail, transactional/promotional materials and books and manuals.

REWORK. Man, that’s one word I really hate. Now, I love working in the printing business just as you do; if you didn’t, you’d be reading Car and Driver or O, The Oprah Magazine instead of In-Plant Graphics. But we both know that printing can be a tough way to make a living. Fussy customers picking you to death about their project and your prices; files that won’t RIP correctly to your devices; folds that crack even after they’ve been scored…you know what I’m talking about. It can be like hanging off the edge of a cliff by your fingertips. And, then, when you

The demand for short-run digital color printing has jumped so much at Pennsylvania State University’s Multimedia & Print Center (MPC) that the 75-employee in-plant’s Xerox 6060 just couldn’t cut it any more. “We were maxed out on the 6060,” remarks Director Abbas Badani. So in August the University Park, Pa.-based in-plant installed a new Xerox iGen3. In September, its first full month of operation, the digital press pumped out 200,000 impressions, about 25 percent of which had previously been printed on the shop’s offset presses. The goal, Badani says, is a quarter million impressions a month. Just back from the Southeastern University Printing and Digital Managers

THE NATIONAL Government Publishing Association (NGPA) rounded up government in-plant managers from all parts of the country last month for the group’s 31st annual conference. The three-day event, held in Austin, Texas, was organized by NGPA Vice President Richard Beto, director of document services at the University of Texas-Austin; Robert Gomez, director of publishing for the Texas State Senate; and NGPA President Audrey Marrocco, print administrator for the Pennsylvania Department of General Services. Several dozen state and federal printing managers, along with a few of their state university counterparts, attended professional development sessions and toured the in-plants at the University of Texas and

When the State of Delaware’s Legislative Print Shop, located in Dover, finally ditched its outdated offset duplicators a year ago and added two black-and-white Xerox DocuTech 6115 printers with Freeflow workflow, it made a world of difference for the shop. Now, having just finished its first full legislative session using the DocuTechs, the three-employee in-plant has taken the next step by moving into digital color. The shop just installed a new Xerox DocuColor 260. In the process it replaced two older color copiers and a black-and-white Xerox 275. The in-plant is using the 260 to print legislative wrap-up letters with color photos. It has also

Temple University Duplicating Services recently upgraded to a Xerox DocuColor 5000, part of a technology upgrade that also brought Xerox 4110 and Nuevera 120 black-and-white printers to the Philadelphia university. “We had pushed a DocuColor 3535 to its limit and established a reputation for quick turnaround,” says Maury Kane, director. “We could easily justify adding the new color unit with only moderate increase in volume.” The 5000 has allowed the 10-employee in-plant to take on a variety of color projects previously out of its scope. Because of the “significant” improvement in quality, Kane says Temple’s Creative Services group plans to send his shop more work. “It

GRAPH EXPO returned to Chicago last month, bringing printers together from all over the globe. Despite its earlier than usual start the weekend after Labor Day, the four-day graphic arts trade show packed a decent crowd. Granted, opening day attendance thinned noticeably around NFL kickoff time (it was the season opener, after all), but by day two McCormick Place was jammed solid. An impressive 640 exhibitors (including 120+ new ones) spread out across 460,984 net square feet of exhibit space. In-plants interested in wide-format printing or in mailing/fulfillment could go to special sections of the show floor where such equipment was clustered.

IF YOU veer away from the Las Vegas Strip and drive about a mile east, until the Hard Rock Casino fades away in your rear view mirror, you’ll hit the campus of the University of Nevada-Las Vegas (UNLV), an academic oasis on the fringes of the casino world. Celebrating 50 years in 2007, the university now hosts more than 28,000 students on its 350-acre campus. Providing UNLV’s printing for 38 of those 50 years has been the Reprographics/Design Services (R/DS) department, now operating out of a 7,200-square-foot facility in the center of campus, plus an adjoining 2,000-square-foot copy center. With 20 full-time and