Digital Printing-Toner - Cut Sheet (Color)

FOR ALVIN Griffin, director of Graphic Production for North Carolina’s Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District, and proud owner of a new Xerox iGen3 digital press, a K-12 in-plant stays in the good graces of the superintendent for one primary reason. “We’re dedicated to their needs,” he says. “We provide the support documents for the teachers and the administration. We provide documents used by the students. Ultimately, our goals are aligned with the goals of everyone else in the organization: Education.” Keeping aligned with the goals of the organization became especially important with the arrival of a new superintendent, Peter Gorman. After 100 days at the helm

A CONTROVERSY is brewing about the future of book and manual production. Some people say they are going away; I believe book production is evolving from a labor intensive, manual process to an automated, template-based digital process. The argument that book and manual production are dead cites evidence of dwindling book readership, numbers of book publishers, comparisons of the costs of long offset runs verses shorter digital runs and the book distribution model. On the other side of the coin is the argument that print production is morphing with digital printing and online technologies; those who take advantage of this evolution will be

Editor’s note: Kodak issued the follow clarification to its earlier press release: ROCHESTER, NY—March 14—”KODAK Creative Network is in response to requests from our customers to drive more demand for print business. Production for the Kodak Creative Network, Kodak Easyshare Gallery and other independent online services is done by Kodak customers utilizing Kodak Nexpress solutions. Our customers are asking for more business, and we’re doing everything we can to get more of it to them.” Kodak Creative Network Provides a Dependable and Time-Saving Solution for Easily Creating High Quality Printed Products and Designs ROCHESTER, NY—Mar 13, 2007—Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE: EK) today announced the launch of Kodak Creative Network (creative.kodak.com), a new, online

Color Portfolio Expanded to Offer a Full Range of Color Production Printers BOCA RATON, FL—March 12, 2007—Océ (NASDAQ:OCENY), a global leader in digital document management and delivery solutions, today announced the introduction of two new production-color printers for corporate printrooms and commercial printers. The Océ® Color System 620 (CS620) and Océ Color System 650 Pro (CS650 Pro) provide printing and copying at 65 pages per minute with a low cost of ownership, maximizing budgets and productivity. The systems have a number of finishing, media and controller options, making them suitable for supporting various production workflows. In addition, the oil-free fusing and high-density polymerized toner

PALO ALTO, CA—March 7, 2007—HP today announced that more than 2.5 million photo books and calendars were printed worldwide on HP Indigo presses during the 2006 holiday season(1). With more than 240 HP Indigo presses installed at customer sites producing photo specialty products around the world, HP Indigo customers produced more than 7 million photo books and calendars, totaling approximately 440 million digital photo pages, during the 2006 calendar year. “This record-breaking holiday season reflects the fact that HP Indigo technology, which offers the industry’s highest image quality and unsurpassed reliability, is the preferred digital publishing solution in the photo specialty market, answering customers’ needs

The Open University, whose 200,000 students make it the UK’s largest, has introduced Océ digital printing systems and software. The Open University has replaced its previous printers with two centralized Océ VarioPrint 2110 units, a CS520 color printer, a GBC Hole Punch and a high-capacity digital scanner. A Watkiss online finishing system has also been installed to carry out saddle stitching, folding and trimming for high-end booklet making. In line with the university’s desire to move to electronic image submissions and job ticketing, it also opted for Océ DocWorks Pro software that will link into other printing systems as well as provide a cost-estimation module. A

ACCORDING TO acronymfinder.com there are 89 published definitions for POD. “Print On Demand” ranks number 7 in popularity. (For what it’s worth, #6 is “Probability Of Damage” and #8 is “Payable On Death.” Number one, not surprisingly, is “Proof Of Delivery.”) As to the On Demand part, everything is OD these days: movies, music, weather, news, banking, and yes, there’s even Howard Stern On Demand (this author has restrained himself from commentary). Though the term is overused, it denotes anything immediately accessible. Our now-omnipresent resource library Wikipedia states; “Print on demand or publish on demand (POD) is a publishing methodology in which a

SAN DIEGO State University is an academically rich, urban university with more than 34,000 students, award-winning professors, top-notch research facilities and a location that serves as the gateway to Latin America. Like most universities—especially in California—SDSU is also very conscious of its environmental footprint and constantly monitors and works to reduce its impact on the environment. In April of 2005, the university hired Leslie Rutledge to transform its in-plant, ReproGraphic Services. Her years of employment with commercial printers and graphic arts vendors made her the right person for the challenge. “When I walked in the door on April 4, 2005, which is one

IN-PLANT UPGRADES come a lot more easily when your organization’s marketing department is pushing for them. Take the Community College of Philadelphia (CCP), for example. For years the Central Duplicating department had been getting by with aging Itek, Multi and A.B.Dick duplicators, with barely a dime of investment money coming from the school. But as CCP kicked off a new branding and marketing campaign, the benefits of print-on-demand and variable data printing—and the role they could play in the school’s recruitment efforts—became obvious. This realization prompted the college to install a remanufactured Kodak NexPress 2100 with a fifth unit for adding clear gloss or

DIGITAL COLOR was introduced to the marketplace more than a decade ago. Indigo and Xeikon unveiled key new products in the mid-1990s, and early projections were that these technologies would take off. Initially, as with a number of new technologies, there were technical issues. Presses were unreliable; ink and toner didn’t stick to the paper; and the cost of consumables was too high to generate any substantial application transfer from offset technology. Today, Indigo has been taken over by Hewlett Packard. Xeikon faced bankruptcy before being acquired by Punch Technologies. Kodak bought out Heidelberg’s share of NexPress. Ink and toner are now sticking