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.
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 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.
WASHINGTON, DC—Bolstered by a 30 percent increase in North American attendance, Dscoop7—the annual HP users group conference—enjoyed a strong run last week at the Gaylord National Hotel and Convention Center here. The conference also included attendees from 38 countries and 95 equipment and service providers in the Solutions Showcase exhibition.
More than 2,000 digital print professionals recently gathered at Dscoop7, marking a 30 percent increase in core North American attendees from last year’s event. Attendees from 38 countries rounded out the total. “Dscoop7 was a success in every sense of the word,” said Craig Curran, Dscoop7 chairman and vice president of sales at Nosco.
Nearly two-thirds of the 150 attendees at the 2012 Digital Book Printing Forum were publishers and printers. According to Gilles Biscos, president of INTERQUEST, “Shorter print runs, better inventory management, and the growing popularity of eBooks are changing the supply chain for printed books.”
Vyomesh Joshi, executive vice president of HP’s Imaging and Printing Group (IPG), is retiring after a 31-year career. Under Joshi’s leadership, IPG has grown revenue from $19 billion to $26 billion, and doubled its operating profit to approximately $4 billion.
Mail Print, a direct-mail and variable-data print leader in the Midwest, has installed a HP T200 to expand its full-color, variable-data printing capabilities for the production of personalized direct-mail materials and reduce production time by over 50 percent.
As a global organization, Dscoop is launching a new face-to-face networking event called Dscoop at drupa. The event will bring together members from North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific and EMEA to experience the major industry trade show together, lending a closer-knit community feel to what can otherwise be a solitary experience.
xpedx will be a leading sponsor for the annual Digital Solutions Cooperative conference (DScoop7) for HP graphics arts users in Washington, DC, from March 22-24. Dscoop is an independent global community of graphic arts business owners and technical professionals who use HP Indigo and Scitex equipment.
