Canon U.S.A.

D&H Distributing will hold its Mid-Atlantic Fall Technology Show Nov. 5 in Hershey, Pa. D&H is expecting over 1,000 attendees. 

D&H Distributing will hold its Mid-Atlantic Fall Technology Show Nov. 5 in Hershey, Pa. D&H is expecting over 1,000 attendees. 

Commercial Printing for Latin America is Canon U.S.A.'s new microsite for Latin America, providing local authorized Océ dealers with a single point-of-entry portal on the Canon U.S.A. Website. Through the site, dealers can expect to receive more information on Canon wide-format printers, cut sheet printers and continuous feed printers, as well as the full line of compatible software.

From Hollywood films to publishing and medical technologies, Canon U.S.A.'s new inspirational brand ethos spotlights the breadth of the company’s capabilities and contributions to developing imaging technologies that showcase the impossible for customers.

A new video from In-plant Graphics takes a look at the Graph Expo debut of the Performance Challenge, a new assessment tool from Canon Solutions America that benchmarks in-plants against industry standards. Dozens of in-plant managers packed the session to learn more about how the tool can help their operations.

Canon this week has introduced "Canon See Impossible," described by the company as "a branding effort aimed to inspire customers to see impossible with Canon products."

The official numbers aren't in yet, but the crowds at this week's Graph Expo show in Chicago seemed larger than in previous years. Those who attended certainly had a number of new products to check out. Here are just a few of the new machines unveiled at Graph Expo.

Often when wide-format printing is discussed, the immediate connotation is of posters and banners. But a little creativity can go a long way, and with advancements in printer, ink and substrate technology, in-plants around the country are finding innovative ways to serve their parent companies with wide format, beyond posters and banners.

As determined over the summer, Daniel Pidgeon of Starpower is the new chairman of the Consumer Electronics Association. The new executive board and board of industry leaders were elected Wednesday at the CEA Innovate! event in Arizona.

The in-plant at American River College produces one to two million impressions per month and serves a community college campus of more than 30,000 students. It does all this while constrained to 900 square feet.

Randy Patrick was fed up with wrestling with a folder that had been at his in-plant longer than he had. The rollers and wheels were worn, there were feeding issues and it was creating static on digitally printed jobs.

Salla Vaerma-Jadlos has helped lead ReproMail for the City and County of San Francisco through good times and bad. She's been at the in-plant for 21 years and has seen the department achieve success in uncertain times for the printing industry.

Growing up in Missouri with an interest in art and history, Michael Jaffe admits a career in the Northern California graphic arts scene wasn't his original plan.

"I just kind of fell into printing," quips the supervisor of the General Services Unit for the Judicial Council of California, in San Francisco.

Known for its “10,000 lakes*” and vast tracts of forest land, Minnesota is an outdoorsman’s paradise. So where better to make a stand for sustainable forestry than in the state’s largest city, Minneapolis?

Deep inside a nondescript, two-story brick building in the center of Helena, Mont., Ryan Betcher ruminates about the days when the state’s Print & Mail Services Bureau was filled with printing presses, running eight hours a day.

I, like many others trying to fly to Chicago for this year’s GRAPH EXPO, had my Saturday morning flight cancelled due to an intentionally set fire at a nearby FAA radar facility. Most of the out-of-towners I spoke with were exhibitors, and some did note cases where their printer prospects and existing clients opted to skip GRAPH EXPO altogether after their flights were cancelled.

The following is a sampling of some new wide-format, cutsheet and continuous-feed digital presses that were highlighted or on the show floor at GRAPH EXPO 14 in Chicago.

Canon Solutions America showcased a wide range of inkjet printing capabilities at GRAPH EXPO 14 in Chicago this week. Applications across direct mail, transactional, commercial and book segments demonstrated the power of the paper partnerships Canon Solutions America has.

At the end of the EXECUTIVE OUTLOOK Conference on Sunday at GRAPH EXPO 14, the "Best of Category" Must See 'Ems Award honorees were announced. Chosen from among all 2014 Must See 'Ems winners, these technologies represent the cream of this year's technology crop in the graphic communications industry.

In the "Truth from the Trenches: Print Buyers in the Digital (Printing) Age" Webinar, recently presented by Printing Impressions and sponsored by Canon U.S.A., a panel of print buyers discussed what they seek from their printing and marketing services providers; and how printers become long-term partners, and not just commodity services providers.