Pitney Bowes

WITH MORE than 1,000 exhibitors expected from more than 40 countries, IPEX 2010 is the British version of Drupa.

Pitney Bowes has selected Newark, N.J., as the site for its expanded mail services operations and will open a new International Mail Distribution Center there next month. The relocation and expansion will bring 180 jobs to Newark, and is expected to create an additional 25 jobs in New Jersey's largest city over the next few years.

LAST MONTH, in-plant managers from Texas colleges and universities met in Austin for the Texas Association of College and University Printers' (TACUP) conference. While billed as a regional conference, TACUP was actually the largest gathering of university in-plant managers this year, with 40 managers in attendance from as far away as Arizona, Indiana, Pennsylvania and Virginia. And judging by their responses, it was also one of the best events of its kind.

THOUGH PRINT 09 may have gotten off to a slow start, the crowds eventually showed up. And when they did, many of them headed right for the bindery equipment. Nowhere was that more true than at the Standard Finishing Systems exhibit, which was bustling with activity on the third day of the show, even as other booths appeared to be on siesta. Mark Hunt, director of marketing for Standard, thought he knew why.

To improve the quality of its brochures, booklets, post cards and color statements, the 23-employee printing and mailing operation at Western & Southern Financial Group recently became one of the first in-plants to install the new Xerox iGen4 digital press. Dan Cowan, Print/Volume Document Production Manager, feels the quality of the iGen4’s output is even better than that of the iGen3. “It’s much closer to offset,” he contends.

Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE: PBI) today announced it has received the 1500th order for its state-of-the-art FPS™ Split Drive Inserting System, making it one of the fastest-selling new inserters the company has ever produced. The 1500th purchase was acknowledged this morning at the opening ceremonies of the Pitney Bowes Customer Summit being held in their Danbury CT document technology center.

James Euchner, Pitney Bowes Vice President of Advanced Technology & Chief eBusiness Officer discusses Pitney Bowes’ customer-focused innovation.

Pitney Bowes will now offer Riso’s HC5500 color ink-jet printer to U.S. customers. The HC5500 works in conjunction with a broad array of Pitney Bowes products, including its mail management software and inserters, to form a complete “print-to-mail” solution in a cut-sheet environment.

“Our collaboration with Riso is a natural fit with our integrated printing and mailing solutions,” said Mark Pollack, vice president, marketing, U.S. Mailing for Pitney Bowes. “The HC5500 offers our customers a high-speed, low-cost color ink-jet printing solution that can help increase operational efficiency and convenience with the creation and printing of documents in-house with a broad array of Pitney Bowes products.”

“OUR PRIMARY focus really is color,” declares Dallas Johnson, from his office at the University of California-Riverside. “We’ve moved away from black and white. We saw that as sort of a dying market…still see it that way.” With 35 years of printing experience to guide him, Johnson thinks he has a pretty good idea where the industry is headed. So when the director of Service Enterprises decided to move his in-plant away from the “dying” monochrome market and into the more promising world of color printing, he did it in a big way.

The Application Showcase Theater on The On Demand Expo floor will feature leading vendors conducting multimedia educational presentations. This area offers free education to all attendees. The Conference and Expo will be taking place March 30 – April 2, 2009 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia.