Software - VDP

At GRAPH EXPO 15, attendees will learn how to integrate new products and leverage technologies from Konica Minolta.

Bringing together XMPie users and staff from around the world, the ninth annual XMPie Users Group (XUG) took place last month in Las Vegas. Open sharing among XMPie and its customers has became a hallmark characteristics of XUG Annual conferences. Keynote speakers included Rafi Albo, CEO of SegMarketing; Mike Fogarty, global executive director, Dscoop; and Joel Book, principal, Marketing Insights, ExactTarget.

Coca-Cola's "Share a Coke" campaign would not have been possible without digital printing, said Scott Biondich, group director for Sparkling Packaging and R&D Equipment Development at Coca-Cola North America. Launched in the United States this summer, the personalized labels were printed on HP Indigo WS6000 series digital presses.

Working with its service provider, Rider Dickerson, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, the law school of Illinois Institute of Technology, created a multi-phase communication program to encourage students to visit the campus. One of the key factors in the success of this campaign was the effort that was put in upfront to map the communication process with the goal of staying in continuous contact with admitted students.

McNellie’s, a restaurant chain based in Tulsa, OK, opened a second "City South" location that was literally "over the hill" from a busy intersection, and didn’t receive as much business. So it turned to Tulsa-based marketing service agency TPSi for help.

To raise awareness of their brands and capabilities, MSP and sister company BlueSky ETO, which develops Web-based marketing portals, implemented a fully-integrated, multi-channel marketing campaign utilizing two-dimensional and three-dimensional mailings with QR Codes, personalized Websites, e-mails, and personalized samples.

A new iQueue 9 RIP workflow has been released by Xanté that has simplified the process for handling variable data printing, sequential numbering and Intelligent Mail barcodes. The Variable Data Manager allows users to import personalized data and generate print-ready digital files.

Many digital folks don’t realize the extent of publication personalization that occurred in postpress back in the 1980s and ’90s. Today, full-color digital printing presents new opportunities. In an ideal world, you simply print the entire magazine digitally, but here’s no economic scenario in which the all-digital magazine is profitable.

C-Point Marketing, based in Ft. Wayne, Indiana offers turnkey business to business or business to consumer marketing interface, one to one variable printing and a turnkey direct mail and fulfillment program. The company recently expanded their VDP printing capability to full color with the purchase of 2 Kodak Nexpress variable data presses, a 2500 and an S3000.

GURNEE, IL—Ink-jet printer manufacturer Domino is making headlines with its commercial printing division following the release of its Domino-ON-Demand variable data printing solution. The Cambridge, UK-based manufacturer, which operates in 120 countries, invited a group of North American journalists to its U.S. facility here recently for a sneak peek at Domino-ON-Demand, which comprises estimating, prepress, proofing and printing modules. Its coming was also foretold at Graph Expo last September. During the Gurnee visit, reporters were given a first-hand look at the system in action. Domino modified the print head—held down by positive pressure—to include built-in height adjustment, and the width was reduced to 100mm. Domino has also