Canon U.S.A.

D&H Distributing next week will host its Mid-Atlantic Summer Technology Trade Show at the Hershey Lodge Convention Center in Hershey, Pa.

After originally announcing the dates for the 2011 PMA would be Feb. 1-3, 2011, the Photo Marketing Association announced today that the show will now be held Sept. 8-10

Digital Printing and Workflow Product Announcements from the 2010 On Demand Expo, including the Xerox Color 800/1000 and Konica Minolta C8000.

IT WAS a reunion well worth waiting for. Two years after its last conference in Florida, the Association of College and University Printers (ACUP) finally met again in April in Charlotte, N.C., bringing old friends and newcomers together for an enjoyable and enlightening event.

Welcome to a taste of Dealerscope's annual 40 Under 40 report of the CE industry's rising stars.

Each year, our readers nominate their most impressive young employees as a way of highlighting the intelligence, acumen, drive, experience and fresh ideas they bring to an industry that needs those qualities now more than ever.

For the full report, please see our upcoming June issue. Meanwhile, stay tuned to Dealerscope.com as we continue to release some of the names and outtakes from our interviews with these young stars. Here are a few to get you started.

Canon Inc. recently announced the achievement of a new camera-manufacturing milestone as combined production of the company’s EOS-series film and digital single-lens reflex (SLR)

With one day of Ipex 2010 to go, visitor attendance stood at just under 50,000 from 135 countries, excluding over 20,000 exhibitor, agents, dealers, distributor, OEM’s and 500 international media personnel.

Tereck is an independent value-added reseller of document imaging and print solutions, including imaging hardware and software, printer fleet and facilities management services.

Canon Communications LLC, today announced that it has acquired Pharmalot, an influential blog focused on news and information in the pharmaceutical industry.  As part of the acquisition, Pharmalot’s founder, Ed Silverman, will join Canon as an Editor at Large in the Pharmaceutical Media Group and will continue as Pharmalot’s Editor.  In addition to helping spearhead further development of Canon’s digital assets, including webcasts and podcasts, Silverman will also contribute to all of Canon’s pharma properties, including MedAd News and R&D Directions.

Petra Industries Wednesday announced the release of its Spring 2010 catalog. The 1,200 -page catalog includes more than 500 manufacturers, including Canon, Sony,  Olympus, JVC, Philips, Garmin, Clarion, Olympus, RCA, Monster, iLuv, Belkin, Memorex, Peerless, Maxell, Motorola, Pentax and Panasonic.

Petra Industries Wednesday announced the release of its Spring 2010 catalog. The 1,200 -page catalog includes more than 500 manufacturers, including Canon, Sony,  Olympus, JVC, Philips, Garmin, Clarion, Olympus, RCA, Monster, iLuv, Belkin, Memorex, Peerless, Maxell, Motorola, Pentax and Panasonic.

FedEx Office will deploy more than 12,000 new Canon and HP machines across more than 1,800 locations in the United States and Canada.

IT'S CONFERENCE season again, which means that in between writing and editing articles for this issue, I've been dashing off to in-plant events around the country. In the past two weeks I've been to two in-plant meetings (plus the On Demand Show) and talked with dozens of managers about what's happening in their shops.

Looking for new sources of business, Penni Istre, manager of Tiger Graphic Services at the University of Memphis, decided it was time for her in-plant to go after a virtually untapped market: students.

WHEN MARK Dixon inherited the lead role at the University of Oregon's Printing and Mailing Services in December from long-time Director J.R. Gaddis, he started by taking a back-to-basics approach and stamping it with his own progressive twist.

Over 24,000 technology industry professionals gathered in Philadelphia last week for combined event.

WYNIT this week announced the release of its Spring/Summer 2010 full-line catalog. The 256-page catalog features thousands of products from more than 100 industry suppliers. The catalog has a reach of 15,000.

On Tuesday, market research and consulting firm InfoTrends announced the winners of its fifth annual On Demand Best of Show awards during the On Demand Conference & Expo in Philadelphia. One Best of Show award was presented in each of the following categories:

FedEx Office (formerly FedEx Kinko's) has formed an alliance with Canon U.S.A. and HP to create a network of printing and imaging capabilities, giving customers access to leading-edge technologies and a state-of-the-art machine fleet.

The On Demand Best of Show Awards Winners are named in nine product categories, including hardware and software.