Agfa Graphics announced today that Apogee Suite 6.0, the newest version of the company's award-winning workflow software solution, is making its North American debut at the 2009 IPA Technical Conference. The conference is being held June 8-10 at the Intercontinental Hotel in Rosemont, IL.
Canon Communications—Chairman and CEO Charles G. McCurdy is quick to point out—is not immune to the current economic environment. However, double-digit revenue growth in recent years, strong penetration in recession-resilient industries, and well-defined business strategies in print, digital and events have helped the Los Angeles, Calif.-based business-to-business media company weather an often-debilitating economic storm.
According to IPG data, almost 22 percent of in-plants have an imagesetter. Until last month, one of them was the University of Mississippi, which has been churning out film with a Screen Katana for years. The main reason the shop stuck with it? “It was paid for,” laughs Tony Seaman, director of Printing and Graphic Services at the Oxford, Miss., shop.
Winterberry Group Director Jonathan Margulies noted recently in a whitepaper on the state of the direct mail channel that as the economy goes, so goes direct marketing spending. We've all heard by now that mail volumes plummeted in 2008, a fact borne out by Who's Mailing What! Archive research. The impact on the B-to-B sector can be seen in the 24 percent decline in mail between the March 2007-February 2008 and March 2008-February 2009 periods; the drop for all mail sectors during this time was 9.2 percent. While mail volume from B-to-B firms was rising, it dipped in 2007 and has not looked back-a nod to the internet's affect on this sector. In general, efforts appear to be more tightly targeted and integrated with online and/or phone channels to either generate or nurture leads.
Printing Impressions' Commercial Printing Industry National News for May 2009
WHEN JOHN Sandstrom passed away in 1990, his eight children were suddenly left in charge of his printing operation. Having grown up in the graphic arts business, the Sandstrom siblings took the reins of their family’s Milwaukee-based business, HM Graphics.
Printing Impressions’ Digital Printing and Workflow News for May 2009
After 30 years, Xerox’s reign at University of Oregon Printing & Mailing Services has come to an end. The 46-employee in-plant, which has used Xerox DocuTechs and DocuColors since the mid ’70s, has just installed 10 new printers and copiers from Canon and Ikon, after Ikon Office Solutions turned in the lowest bid. Director J.R. Gaddis says the new equipment saved the university 20 percent over previous costs.
No sooner do we chat up the DSLR race and examine how hot the category is getting then along comes Nikon turning up the heat once again.
Dozens of in-plant managers came to Philadelphia recently for the On Demand Conference. Here's a brief glimpse of what they saw there.
Over 20,000 technology industry professionals gathered in Philadelphia last week for the AIIM International Expo + Conference and ON DEMAND Conference & Expo — the largest convention in the city — and took the opportunity to network, attend conference sessions, hear from industry leaders and look for new products and services from more than 300 exhibiting companies.
Philadelphia was the digital printing capital of the country this week, as the AIIM/On Demand Show brought thousands of printers and manufacturers to IPG's hometown. Among them were scores of in-plant managers from around the country.
IPG Editor Bob Neubauer ran into managers from Temple University, Penn State, The Hershey Co., Securian Financial Group, University of Delaware, The National Board of Medical Examiners, and many other organizations as he walked the show floor. Bucknell University brought a half dozen in-plant staff members on a bus from Lewisburg, Pa.
The entry-level DSLR market just got a lot more interesting as both Canon and Olympus have introduced new models aimed at the beginner that pack a ton of interesting new features into their more compasct body designs.
2009 Dealerscope Distributor Profiles
You have a first-class product that's proved itself on the market for 18 months. You've run some solid direct mail campaigns around, it and they've helped you capture 40 percent market share. Should you stand pat and send the same lead generation effort out again?
In these challenging economic times, when a choice must be made about who a custom integrator will do business with, service is the differentiator—just as it is at the client level.
Kodak’s Print On-Demand Solutions Group is proud to announce a new agreement with Canon to develop a new Creo Color Server for the Canon imagePRESS C7000VP, C6000VP and C6000 Digital Presses.
Printing Impressions' Bindery and Finishing News for April 2009
For decades, new equipment was a rarity at the New York City Department of Health’s Reproduction Unit. Like many in-plants, the 18-employee shop languished in its basement abode, accepting equipment handouts from other agencies and buying inexpensive, small equipment when it could cobble together some funds. Then, about four years ago, everything changed. The Health Department invested $1.13 million in new press, computer-to-plate and bindery equipment for the in-plant. Then federal bio terrorism grant money funded more than a dozen additional machines. This astounding equipment infusion is unlike anything ever seen in the in-plant world.
At the awards ceremony this afternoon at the On Demand Conference & Expo, InfoTrends, a leading market research and consulting firm in the digital imaging and document solutions industry, announced the winners of the fourth annual On Demand Best of Show Awards program.
