Leading executives from Saatchi & Saatchi X, FedEx, and Opus Bank, as well as a Pro Football Hall of Fame Quarterback, are all part of the speakers lineup for Consolidated Graphics’ third-annual emerge conference. An audience of nearly 1,000 executives representing leading brands across the country will be on hand.
Print service providers attending the EFI annual user’s conference, Connect 2012, will hear about the ongoing efforts of Kodak and EFI to expand connectivity between their solutions. Attendees will learn how two-way flow of data between Kodak Prinergy Workflow and EFI Monarch MIS software and Pace MIS software can help improve job flow, minimize errors, and provide better visibility into planned versus actual production costs.
From May 3-16, all planes, trains and automobiles will lead to Düsseldorf, Germany, for drupa 2012, the mega-exhibition that brings together graphic arts professionals from around the world and showcases cutting-edge innovations. Although Americans will represent a very small percentage of the expected 350,000 visitors converging on the fairgrounds’ 19 halls filled with 1,850 exhibitors, the new products and technology demonstrations at drupa provide a compass point for the technological direction that the U.S. industry will take for years to come.
Commercial Printing Industry News Briefs from Printing Impressions’ March 2012 edition, including items on manroland web systems, IBS Direct, George Walker, Tribune Direct, Webcrafters, AliGraphics, Intelligencer Printing, Image Craft and Kodak.
Commercial printer equipment installations and other news from Printing Impressions’ April 2012 edition, featuring Source One Digital, O'Neil Data Systems and Lew A. Cummings Co.
The vibe of drupa starts long before the gates open at Messe Düsseldorf. Duomedia hosted its pre-drupa event on March 6-7 in Portugal, featuring announcements—and one compelling teaser—from Chili Publish, Enfocus, Esko, Kodak, Xeikon and X-Rite/Pantone.
What does drupa mean? We’ve lined up an assortment of industry pundits and prognosticators to help you sort out the substance from the hype, and separate the pedestrian from the arcane. It’s tough to slap a label on a worldwide trade show.
Eastman Kodak Co. has instituted a pay freeze for its U.S. employees for the next 12 months. “We are working hard to accelerate our transformation into a self-sustaining and profitable digital enterprise through a number of restructuring initiatives aimed at creating a competitive cost structure,” the company said in a statement Tuesday.
The pay freeze comes in the context of those restructuring efforts “and based on our regular review of our overall compensation position relative to the market.”
Kodak declined to say how much savings it expected to see from the freeze.
The company employs 5,100 people in the Rochester area.
ROCHESTER, NY—Kodak and Graphic Innovators are partnering to provide customers with new opportunities to expand their offerings using hybrid inkjet printing. The agreement establishes Graphic Innovators as an authorized sales agent of Kodak Prosper S-Series imprinting systems to customers in the Americas region.
Kodak, Esko, Enfocus and Xeikon/basysPrint were among the companies that teamed up to hold a pre-drupa media briefing of their own this week. Each of those exhibitors provided an overview of their plans for the show, summarized here with a link to the full announcement.
