Hewlett-Packard

“Frommer’s Remix” is a new line of guidebooks launched by the New Jersey-based publisher. Working in conjunction with HP, the company is now offering on-demand, customizable guidebooks for 33 destinations around the world. Users enter their destination, click through subsequent screens covering attractions or restaurants, and note their preferences by selecting or deselecting specific categories. Other features include integration with TripIt’s itinerary management tool and an array of discount coupons.

The result is a perfect-bound, full-color guidebook with user-selected content, customized maps and, if desired, your own title. With two-day delivery, they’re being offered for $9.99 with 12 included coupons

HP has issued a call for entries for the HP Print Excellence Awards, a new worldwide competition honoring graphic arts printing produced on HP Designjet, Indigo, Inkjet Web Press and Scitex systems. Winners will be announced at an invitation-only gala event held during drupa 2012 next May in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Modern marketing means brand extensions, on pack promotions, packaging to tie in with events—all designed to increase sales and enhance relationships with consumers. This provides opportunities to printers that can meet these demands. To date, digital printing has left packaging alone while expanding in publication printing.

Trekk will be a Gold Sponsor of the 2012 Dscoop7 conference to be held March 22-24, 2012, at the Gaylord National Hotel and Convention Center in Washington, DC. The recent expansion of Dscoop into the Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and Latin America regions has prompted the formation of a global Board of Directors.

The HP T200 installation strengthens Veritas’ ability to provide its clients with cost-effective and technology-driven communications solutions. The company offers comprehensive production and fulfillment services to a client roster that includes several of the country’s leading insurance industry and human resource benefits firms.

Commercial printer equipment installations and other news from Printing Impressions’ November 2011 edition, featuring items on Lithoprint Corp. and Northeastern Envelope.

Branching out from ink, Hewlett Packard is taking its printer know-how and applying it to drug discovery. The technology giant’s Imaging and Printing Group, which is based in San Diego, recently showed off a new machine that uses inkjet printer technology to dispense chemical compounds as part of the drug discovery process.

“What is an inkjet cartridge? It’s a pump from which you can deliver very small volumes of ink in an accurate fashion,” said Vyomesh Joshi, head of HP’s $26 billion inkjet printer business, in a recent interview. “So we asked, ‘Can we take this technology and go into something

Cincinnati-based Arnold Printing previously operated an HP Indigo press 5000 and is known for its high-quality digital printing capabilities. Faced with growing demand for digital print among Fortune 500 firms and other key businesses it serves, company co-owners Duff Arnold and Tim Arnold decided to add an HP Indigo 7500 to achieve higher productivity.

The SpencerLab Digital Color Laboratory is excited to announce the release of a white paper summarizing the results of a unique benchmarking study of digital press Availability and Actual Production time—perhaps the first of its kind. The white paper is available by free download from the SpencerLab website.

On the heels of GRAPH EXPO 2011’s post-show attendance report released last week-which revealed buyers up 7 percent and buyer companies up 12 percent over last year’s show-are just sampling of comments from attendees and exhibitors who spoke out on the quality of this year’s show.