More than 2,000 digital print professionals gathered at Dscoop6, which opened with a keynote speech by management consultant Stan Slap. He said that if a company’s product or service doesn’t inspire loyalty internally, it won’t work on the outside with customers.
Its overall net revenue of $32.3 billion for the quarter was up 4 percent from the prior-year period. Imaging and Printing Group (IPG) revenue grew 7 percent, with 33 percent year-over-year growth in commercial printer hardware units.
HP’s new “Everybody On” global marketing campaign celebrates how people around the world are using HP technology. The entire campaign is spread across many different types of media—including print, broadcast, online and social media—and builds on the theme: “The Computer is Personal Again.”
The new offerings—which include enhancements for users of the latest HP Indigo press models, as well as upgrades and features for the broader base of PSP customers—represent HP's continued investment in its customers’ success.
As everyone knows, the recent past has been an extremely challenging period for companies in many industries—including the graphic arts—yet despite these challenges, Inkjet International decided to invest where many are in a retreat and bunker-down mode.
Marketing executives are always actively searching for solutions to help them gain increased customer knowledge, help improve direct marketing results, and quantify those results. Print service providers can fulfill these needs by adding multi-channel communications to new or existing variable data applications.
With multi-channel offerings, print service providers have new opportunities for value added services, while driving increased volume to digital presses at the same time. In addition, print service providers who begin delivering multi-channel solutions benefit from several new revenue streams.
This webinar will focus on how both commercial printers and in-plants have successfully implemented multi-channel communications and the value for both their customers and their organizations.
Sponsored by: HP
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NORTH CHELMSFORD, MA—Book manufacturer/specialty publisher Courier Corp. is considering closing its Stoughton, MA, manufacturing plant due to the impact of technology and competitive pressures affecting one-color paperback books, which are produced there. The company expects to make a decision by the end of February.
Hybrid print production, or the integration of digital and offset printing, can take multiple forms and be defined in different ways. Examples include digital imprinting of preprinted offset shells, running inkjet heads in-line with a web offset press or binding line, and building a common workflow for processing files output to a digital press and computer-to-plate system. (Includes Web-only sidebar and bonus video content.)
Commercial printing industry news from Printing Impressions’ February 2011 edition.
As printers become more specialized, it makes the in-/near-/off-line decision making process clearer. Turnover times and run lengths continue to shorten, but the need for quality hasn't been compromised, prompting many printers to take their finishing functions off-line.
