Digital bytes 6-01

ROCHESTER, NY—Canon Inc. and NexPress Solutions have announced a commitment to work together to promote open standards that enable the seamless exchange of digital color printing jobs between the office and commercial printing markets. (www.canon.com and www.nexpress.com)

ENGLEWOOD, CO—Signal Graphics has made the A.B.Dick Digital PlateMaster (DPM) 2340 direct-to-plate device and ScanMaster scanning solution part of its standard equipment package. The equipment package already has been added to six of the franchise printing organization's 55 stores, and is expected to be rolled out by all the locations within two years. (www.signalgraphics.com and www.abdick.com)