Digital Digest

Fitting right in with its road sign motif, this year's event got rolling with optional bus trips to local HP Indigo users for company presentations and plant tours. Around 200 attendees were able to go on one of the four half-day trips.

Among the stops was Taylor Publishing, best known for producing student yearbooks, which offered a look at an offset and digital printing workflow optimized to handle extreme production demands on a cyclical basis. Some of its production stats include needing to make some 1,500 plates in an eight-hour shift during the busy season and going from the last sheet of one job to the first good sheet of the next in eight minutes, including hanging eight plates, on its sheetfed presses.