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HP Indigo Press Users Get the Scoop TAMPA, FL—There were no signs of the terrible twos or growing pains at the 2007 Dscoop Annual Conference, just the second users meeting for this group of HP Indigo press owners. Total registration was nearly double that of the inaugural event last year. A greater focus on the packaging and label printing market segments contributed to a spike in attendance to around 750 people. The keynote address by NFL Hall of Fame Coach Marv Levy kicked off the conference sessions. Levy used anecdotes from his coaching days to relate his philosophies on people management and motivation. Following

BY APPLYING ad­­vanced digital printing and workflow technologies to customer needs since 1997, Lightning Source has sent a current through the publishing industry. It’s charged a new business model and unheard of speed for delivery of one-off books based on print-on-demand (POD) manufacturing. POD means a customer orders the number of books needed, even if that’s only a single copy. Economically speaking, a title need never go out of print. “Our mission is to be the global leader in on-demand solutions for the book publishing industry,” proclaims Kirby Best, Lightning Source’s president and CEO. Those solutions include maintaining a digital library for publishers, offering

LET’S BE honest, selling digital printing to your customers can be a daunting proposition. More often than not, it falls upon you to be the one to enlighten buyers about the virtues of variable data printing. Who better to budge them out of their static ways? That’s all copasetic. Given the relative nascent state of variable data digital work, it behooves printers to leverage the educational tools and programs being offered by high-end digital color press manufacturers to help them not only sell more printing, but also educate print buyers on why they should consider the merits of personalization. Virtually all of the manufacturers

PODi Forum To Explore Success Variables ANAHEIM, CA—Strategies for success in variable data marketing and case studies of companies that have put them into practice will be featured at the 2007 Application Forum organized by PODi, the Digital Printing Initiative. The event, scheduled to be held February 12-14 at the Hilton Anaheim, will feature several head-liners. With an analysis of the state of the industry as a lead-in, PODi President Rab Govil will explore key differences between a solution and a product. Attendees will learn how to choose which variable data marketing solution to offer and how to build it, along with gaining insights into the

CHICAGO—12/07/06—The Digital Solutions Cooperative (Dscoop) has launched a new Web-to-print solution being offered only to members of the user-driven community of HP Indigo press owners and their sales, marketing and production teams. Created by Saepio Technologies, this solution allows Dscoop members to easily customize online templates with their company logo, contact information and success stories for their sales and marketing teams to show clients the creative and innovative capabilities that they can offer. “This solution provides members the opportunity to truly educate their clients about 1-1 marketing, variable data printing and collateral on demand and show them proof of it. I know

PALO ALTO, CA—December 5, 2006—In support of the company’s “Capture Business Success” program, HP today announced a new four-month, 12-city U.S. tour focused on helping commercial, quick and franchise print service providers (PSPs) get on the fast track to new and growing profit opportunities in digital printing. Beginning December 12 in Dallas, the tour will feature in-depth discussions of how digital technologies – such as HP’s flagship digital press, the HP Indigo press 5000 – are generating more sales with more profitable rates of return for printers and their customers. The seminars are open to existing HP Indigo customers as well as PSPs

PALO ALTO, CA—Dec. 4, 2006—HP announced that Amazon.com has elected to install multiple HP Indigo press 5000 machines to provide digital color printing for the online retailers’ expanding books-on-demand business. These color presses reportedly will operate in conjunction with existing black-and-white digital printing capabilities at several Amazon fulfillment centers. They are to be used for one-off to short-run color book production and printing of color covers for black-and-white book blocks. “Through this collaboration, consumers will benefit from the integration of HP’s digital print technology and Amazon’s unmatched ability to offer the broadest selection of books possible,” said Vyomesh Joshi, executive vice president, Imaging and

PALO ALTO, CA—November 6, 2006—HP today announced that O’Neil Printing, a 98-year-old commercial sheetfed printing operation in Phoenix, Ariz., recently installed a six-color HP Indigo press 5000 to drive high-value short-run web-to-print collateral and other quick-turnaround applications. O’Neil specializes in high-end commercial printing, using stochastic imaging for its offset presses to produce top-quality annual reports, calendars, brochures, posters, sell-sheets, product catalogs and other materials. The addition of the HP Indigo press 5000 not only supports the firm’s reputation for superior color print production, but also enables more cost-efficient on-demand collateral and targeted direct mail to a client base that includes state universities, financial institutions,

AWAY FROM the churning of offset presses and clicking of bindery machinery, a buzz was emanating from the comparably quiet booths containing consumable product vendors at Graph Expo—a buzz caused by new product announcements, enhancements and other newsworthy scuttlebutt. Toyo Ink America, for instance, showcased a comprehensive lineup of inks for sheetfed and web printing applications. Ink products that debuted at the show included: Kaleido four-color process ink; edible inks; heatset web inks; the Scuff Tuff SG process series; and the Aqualess Ultra process series. New non-ink products from Toyo included the TOYO 1050 Color Finder system, with color matches for 1,050 colors that are

IT MAY be telling that, with a few exceptions, the presses in operation around the show floor of Graph Expo and Converting Expo 2006 were of the digital variety. Offset units were conspicuous in their absence. Digital presses largely have become part of the commercial printing mainstream, rather than being a specialty product segment or market niche. The exhibition’s Wide Format Pavilion showed ongoing interest in that segment, but adding a wide, large, superwide or grand format digital system still is seen as a way to diversify rather than being standard equipment. Hewlett-Packard shared results from an InfoTrends study that surveyed a sampling