Ultimate Technographics

Xerox's annual Business Innovation Partner of the Year Awards were announced on Monday, recognizing the company's partners that help Xerox customers increase their business opportunities and success.

Xerox has honored 15 business partners for their contributions, chief among them Rochester Software Associates Inc. and C.P. Bourg. Xerox works with software and hardware providers to create integrated solutions that extend the capabilities of Xerox products. The awards recognize leading partners in two categories: workflow software and document feeding and finishing solutions.

David Watson, president and founder of prepress automation software developer Ultimate Technographics, suffered a massive heart attack during the Drupa international trade show in Düsseldorf, Germany, last Saturday and died at an area hospital. He was 60. The company, based in Montreal, is best know for its pioneering work in electronic imposition software, with the first version of Impostrip having been launched at Drupa 90. Ultimate’s executive management team, under the direction of Mr. Watson’s wife, Joanne David, will be taking over the leadership of the company.

DÜSSELDORF, GERMANY/MONTREAL, CANADA—June 2, 2008—With great regret Ultimate announces the loss of its president and founder, David Watson. David passed away after having a serious heart attack. Respected by the entire industry, David had already conducted a compass session at what was his 5th drupa. He was delighted to celebrate his company’s 20th anniversary there. Ultimate would like to thank the people that have given support and shown their sympathy. While their thoughts are with David’s family the Ultimate team expresses its determination to continue to revolutionize digital imposition based on the vision David had set out. With the mission to computerize

The On Demand Exposition & Conference partnered with InfoTrends, a market research and consulting firm, to present the Best of Show Awards at On Demand last month in Boston. IPG congratulates the nine top award winners: • Monochrome Digital Printing: Océ Vario­Stream 8000 • Process Color Digital Printing: Canon U.S.A. imagePRESS C6000 • Wide-format Printing: Xerox 8265 Color Wide Format Printer • Bindery, Finishing and Mailing: Ricoh Ring Binder RB5000 • Innovations in Paper Usage/Substrates: Mohawk Fine Papers Beckett Cambric • Document Creation Software: XMPie Personal­Effect • Web To Print Solutions: Rochester Software Associates WebCRD Enterprise System 7.0 • Workflow Solutions: Ultimate Technographics Impostrip

BOSTON—March 4, 2008—At an awards ceremony this afternoon, the On Demand Exposition & Conference announced the winners of the third annual ON DEMAND Best of Show Awards program. InfoTrends, a leading market research and consulting firm in the digital imaging and document solutions industry, partnered with the On Demand Conference & Exposition to produce the awards program. The On Demand Conference & Exposition is taking place this week at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center. The On Demand Best of Show Awards were judged in nine categories. One “Best of Show” award was presented in each of the following categories: • Bindery, Finishing and

As printers integrate digital and computer-to-plate technologies into their workflows, the role of electronic imposition is increasingly in the spotlight. Imposition tools are getting more mature—Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) is making its impact on imposition solutions that stand both within and without bundled workflow packages, and new software solutions are launching with more frequency and fervor. At the same time, prepress managers are looking for integrated imposition solutions—tools that can allow the adoption of an all-digital CTP environment. Why? The technological enhancement of digital imposition software, large-format computer-to-film devices and new launches in the CTP market have put greater emphasis on