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HAUPPAUGE, NY—01/25/07—On March 7th, 2007, Muller Martini and Nipson America will present an open house featuring demonstrations of a complete OnDemand digital book printing and perfect binding line. The open house will take place at Muller Martini headquarters on Long Island. More than 1,200 attendees throughout the industry have been invited to the event. During the open house, a full inline digital book printing and binding workflow will be demonstrated, comprised of two Nipson VaryPress 400 digital printers with unwinder, sheeter and stacker, a Shuttleworth Star RollerTM conveyor, and a Muller Martini SigmaBinder perfect binder, SigmaTower cooling tower and Esprit three-knife trimmer. “We see

NEWTON, MA—January 10, 2007— Questex Media Group, Inc. announced that John Schwarz, CEO of Business Objects, Jeff Teper, Corporate Vice President, Office Business Platform Microsoft, and international best-selling author, Stephen J. Dubner, will deliver keynote addresses at the AIIM and ON DEMAND 2007 Conferences & Expos. The event will take place April 16-19, 2007 at the Boston Convention & Exposition Center. Additional keynote speakers will be announced shortly. The AIIM Conference & Expo is the largest event examining the strategies and technologies associated with enterprise information management. The ON DEMAND Conference & Expo is the world’s leading digital printing conference and exposition, encompassing all the

Though outsourcing may once have been an in-plant’s biggest threat, the newest challenge is coming from inside, says Mike Renn, assistant vice president of Mellon Financial’s Corporate Operation. “I’ve spent too many summers sweating blistering outsourcing arguments about printing not being part of our company’s core business. Of course, these arguments were volunteered by shady outside concerns. Fortunately, cooler heads prevailed and my in-plant survived. “Now my in-plant is threatened from the inside by the new ‘in-plants.’ High-production digital copiers are springing up all over like weeds. These expensive machines are masters of their operators. They not only demand more copies, more service, supplies and invoicing, but

To find out how Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan’s Xerox iGen3 digital press has been working out since it was installed a couple years ago, we went back and talked with Patrick O’Donnell, manager of Document Production Services. Q: Has the new equipment been helpful in your shop? A: The iGen3 has increased the production output of our five-color GTO by 300 percent. Prior to purchasing the iGen3, we were running jobs for 2,000 or fewer sheets on the GTO and sending out the longer runs to commercial shops. With the iGen3, we can now do the smaller runs on that machine and keep the

Hewlett-Packard is hosting a traveling one-day seminar called GO Digital, along with Printable Technologies, MindFireInc, AccuData, and GPA. It will hit 12 cities in the U.S. and will focus on helping identify profit opportunities in digital printing. The sessions will feature in-depth discussions of how digital technologies—such as the HP Indigo press 5000—are generating more sales with more profitable rates of return for printers and their customers. Attendees will learn to: • Differentiate your operation through profitable high-growth services • Apply technology to your clients’ marketing strategy and deliver a service your clients are demanding • Provide start-to-finish marketing strategies for your customers

The purchase of two Riso V8000 digital presses has given the University of Tennessee at Martin Digital Printing Services a new lease on life. A few years ago, the in-plant seemed to be in trouble. Its machinery was very old and some of its presses were broken. “Life expectancy for the print shop looked very dim,” says Susie Nanney, director of Information Technology Services Computer Store and Digital Printing Services. In the summer of 2005, the university’s Information Technology Services began managing the print shop and transformed it into a digital workplace, rebranding it “Digital Printing Services.” That fall, the in-plant added its first Riso V8000 digital

Why send jobs to the in-plant when a desktop printer or hallway copier can take care of them? That’s what many of your customers are thinking—and doing. It’s up to you to change their bad, wasteful habits. Here are some suggestions from fellow managers. To see even more, check out our e-news story on this topic. Educate Them What we do is point out to all our departments with short presentations during departmental meetings how expensive the cost per copy is for a desktop versus our cheaper cost per copy with our in-plant equipment. We also stress the labor issue: that the department

The National Government Publishing Association (NGPA) spiced up its recent conference in Rochester, N.Y., with visits to Kodak, Xerox and R.I.T.

PALO ALTO, CA—Dec. 4, 2006—HP announced that Amazon.com has elected to install multiple HP Indigo press 5000 machines to provide digital color printing for the online retailers’ expanding books-on-demand business. These color presses reportedly will operate in conjunction with existing black-and-white digital printing capabilities at several Amazon fulfillment centers. They are to be used for one-off to short-run color book production and printing of color covers for black-and-white book blocks. “Through this collaboration, consumers will benefit from the integration of HP’s digital print technology and Amazon’s unmatched ability to offer the broadest selection of books possible,” said Vyomesh Joshi, executive vice president, Imaging and

A glimpse of the excitement and bustle of Graph Expo, with interviews of some of the in-plant managers in attendance.