Industry News

This week the 44th annual Southeastern University Printing and Digital Managers Conference is taking place in Wilmington, N.C.

From its inspiring keynotes to its plentiful networking opportunities, thINK Ahead 2019 — which took place this week at the Waldorf Astoria Boca Raton Resort & Club in Boca Raton, Fla. — was a resounding success. One exciting new feature was the addition of a full track of sessions for in-plants.

It's hard to believe, but the long-awaited PRINTING United 2019 expo begins just one month from Monday. On Oct. 23, the doors of the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas will open wide and let in a massive crowd of in-plants, commercial printers, sign printers, quick printers and many other types of service providers.

What if your in-plant could help your parent organization strengthen its corporate identify and brand recognition, while improving the perceived value of your operation and generating thousands in additional revenue? Would you take action or just let the opportunity pass to some other department?

Seats for the three free mealtime educational events In-plant Impressions is hosting at PRINTING United are filling quickly. Already half of the available spots have been filled. The in-plant forums will cover topics like innovative wide-format applications, workflow and promotional product sales. All in-plants are welcome, but registration is required.

After managing the in-plant at Rodda Paint Co. for 35 years, Stephen Denny is retiring — to a busy life.

We asked in-plants which new products and services would be fueling their growth over the next few years. The responses were surprising.

Kilgore College Print Services was bent on providing the offset quality the shop originally produced before going all-digital. Its new digital press is handling that requirement very well.

In June, the College and University Print Management Association of Canada met to discuss wide-format, Web-to-print, and how to avoid outsourcing.

After a long search, Penn State University’s Multimedia and Print Center, one of the country's largest in-plants, has a new director.