In-plant Events

IPG Editor Bob Neubauer takes a look at the chemistry-free CTP and DI press equipment at Presstek’s Graph Expo booth with Ed Marino, president and CEO.

The College and University Print Management Association of Canada conference drew almost 40 in-plant managers to scenic St. John’s, Newfoundland.

More than 125 in-plant managers attended the main in-plant event of the year, the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association conference. IPG was there.

In-plant managers reveal some of the innovations they have implemented in their shops.

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

Its name hasn’t gotten any shorter, but it sure is more up to date. SUPDMC has changed its name to the “Southeastern University Printers and Digital Managers Conference,” replacing the dated term “Duplicating” with the word “Digital.” The renaming took place at the business meeting on the final day of the 32nd annual conference. Held recently in Memphis, the conference was co-hosted by Penni Istre of the University of Memphis and Tony Seaman of the University of Mississippi, thus carrying the theme “UM².” The conference was kicked off in Memphis style with an appearance by Elvis Presley (actually an imitator) who shook away everyone’s morning

TORRANCE, CA—November 9, 2006—Xplor International, the worldwide electronic document systems association today announced that Kevin Craine, MBA author and longtime industry contributor, will host a day-long course titled after his popular book, “Designing a Document Strategy,” which is now sold in over 30 countries worldwide and required reading at universities throughout the United States, Canada and Australia. The course will be taught on Friday, March 2, 2007 from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM at Xplor’s Document University in conjunction with Graphics of the Americas/Xplor Exhibition at the Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami Beach, Florida. The course is intended for executives, managers, technicians and

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) recently hosted the 39th Big Ten Printing Conference. The successful event drew more than 60 attendees. Sessions covered both printing and copyright topics, with a separate track for each. On the printing side were sessions on print workflow, variable data, the aging of the printing industry and supervising Millennials (i.e. today’s college students). Copyright sessions covered Fair Use in course packets, copyright from the publisher’s point of view and electronic reserves. Tony Clements, from the Campus Recreation department at UIUC, started the conference with some laughs and insights in a keynote speech entitled, “From the Rail of the

With more than 630 exhibitors covering in excess of 440,000 square feet of show floor space, GRAPH EXPO and CONVERTING EXPO 2006 was the largest national graphic communications and converting trade show held in the U.S. since 2000, according to its sponsors. Vendors reported strong interest among attendees across a wide range of products on display. You can watch two videos from Graph Expo in the video section of our homepage. For coverage of product introductions beyond what was included in the printed edition of In-Plant Graphics, click the appropriate links below. Prepress and Software Digital Printing Presses and Accessories Binding and

To drive home its conference theme, “Digital in Demand,” the National Government Publishing Association held its most recent meeting in Rochester, N.Y., a stronghold of graphic arts technology. As the home of Xerox, Kodak and the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester proved an ideal location. Each of those organizations hosted the NGPA group for half a day, providing seminars, tours and a close look at the latest digital equipment. The three-day conference drew 34 government attendees from 14 states. Each morning kicked off with educational sessions covering such topics as CTP, shop management software and marketing. The afternoon tours followed. In