InfoPrint Solutions

The three-year joint venture between IBM's Printing Systems Division and Ricoh has now reached its planned completion.

InfoPrint Solutions Co., a joint venture between IBM and Ricoh, today announced that TPSi, a provider of computer output management and distribution services, has chosen the InfoPrint Pro 1357 MICR printer to meet the increasing demand from their customers to deliver unique, Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR)-enabled documents.

Frederic Printing will use the inkjet production system to produce print on-demand (POD) textbooks, direct mail pieces and election ballots.

With many hundreds of one-to-one demonstrations during the eight day show, visitors took the opportunity to see Ricoh’s end-to-end solutions at work.

Digital Printing and Workflow Product Announcements from the 2010 On Demand Expo, including the Xerox Color 800/1000 and Konica Minolta C8000.

Commercial printing industry supplier company and personnel news from Printing Impressions' June 2010 edition.

Inkjet prints were successfully deinked in a procedure designed to replicate a typical European mixed grade waste paper recycling system.

In addition to the debut of its new logo, InfoPrint Solutions will be introducing the InfoPrint 5000 (multi-purpose) MP, additional InfoPrint 4100 models and new workflow software.

Ipex will be an interesting show. I'm headed across the pond with a focus on the big inkjet boxes that some claim will ultimately replace offset, and looking closely at some of the new developments in toner-based machines.

At Ipex 2010 Hunkeler will be showing three world firsts: the PF7 Double Plow Folder, the DP6 dynamic perforation module and the PP6 perforating and punching module.