Under the terms of an OEM agreement with HP, Bell and Howell will now integrate the HP C500 inkjet color print module into its inserting and finishing systems as an option. It will market these integrated systems throughout North America.
Blurb, the global creative publishing platform, has released two additions to its on-demand print products—magazines and brochures. This new offering allows consumers and businesses to print low-volume orders in one week. Both products are printed on HP Indigo presses.
Davita Vance-Cooks, Deputy Public Printer and Acting Public Printer, will keynote Interquest’s seventh-annual Digital Printing in Government and Higher Education Forum. The seminar, which is free for government and higher education professionals, will take place in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Government Printing Office (GPO), North Capitol St. Northwest.
NORTH CHELMSFORD, MA—Courier Corp., which specializes in book manufacturing, content management and publishing, plans to provide complete end-to-end digital production capability at its flagship four-color plant in Kendallville, IN. The heart of the new production line will be a high-volume HP T410 color inkjet web press, Courier’s fourth HP digital press and its largest to date.
With offset presses becoming scarce on the show floor and digital vendors pushing for higher volume and larger B2-format machines, digital presses are becoming the "big iron" components of the GRAPH EXPO show. Almost without exception, digital press vendors highlighted their workflow and digital front end (DFE) capabilities.
Dscoop announced that business motivation speaker Mark King and The New York Times best-selling author and entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk will deliver keynote addresses at the 2013 Dscoop annual conference. Dscoop8:Spark will take place Feb. 21-23, 2013, at Gaylord Opryland Hotel and Convention Center in Nashville, TN.
Management of GlobalSoft contends that the firm has been a digital printing operation since Day One. The company has wagered all of its chips on digital printing and integrated marketing and is now experiencing explosive growth in the photo specialty and calendar markets.
Commercial printer equipment installations and other news from Printing Impressions’ November 2012 edition, featuring the 2012 Franklin Award.
Commercial Printing Industry News Briefs from Printing Impression’ November 2012 edition, including items on Quad/Graphics, RR Donnelley, Foxfire Printing and Packaging, xpedx, Sheridan Books, Sheridan Books, NewPage Corp. and Enhanced Digital Printing.
There was a lot of positive energy at GRAPH EXPO 2012 and most booths were generally busy. My sense from vendors was that business is (finally) coming back. “Doesn’t it look a lot like the old On Demand Show when we used to have it at Javits in New York? You walk in and all you see is digital press companies.”
