When IWCO Direct acquired the U.S. operations of Transcontinental Direct last year, it sought a single, integrated system to provide standardized workflows, improved efficiencies and increased profitability. A review of available options lead to EFI Monarch.
Commercial printing industry news briefs, including items on PEP Direct, Edward Hine, IWCO Direct, Muller Martini, The Standard Group, TriStar Graphics and RR Donnelley.
The USPS is projected to reach its statutory borrowing limit ($3 billion per year/$15 billion) by the end of its fiscal year in September. At that time, a $5.5 billion RHB bill and a $1.2 billion workers' compensation liability will come due. Mr. ZIP will fall about $2 billion to $3 billion shy.
Commercial printer company and personnel news from Printing Impressions’ April 2011 edition
CHANHASSEN, MN—IWCO Direct, a provider of direct marketing solutions, has bolstered its full-color, variable data digital printing capacity with the installation of a new Xerox iGen4 at its facility here. This installation continues to grow IWCO Direct's platform-wide digital print capability and capacity.
With the installation of the new digital color press at its plant in Chanhassen, MN, the company moved an existing Xerox DocuColor 8000AP to its facility in Downey, CA, thereby expanding the digital color print capacity of that operation as well.
Commercial printing industry news briefs, including items on RR Donnelley, EFI, Heidelberg, MSP Digital Marketing, Fry Communications, The Sheridan Group, EskoArtwork, IWCO Direct, Fort Orange Press, Courier Corp. and Databank IMX.
CHANHASSEN, MN—IWCO Direct, a national provider of direct marketing solutions, is refining its fulfillment services strategy to focus only on integrated fulfillment programs with components generated in-house by IWCO Direct. As a result, IWCO Direct will begin to transition away from customer programs that require pick-and-pack fulfillment services with supplied components.
IWCO is refining its fulfillment services strategy to focus only on fulfillment programs with components generated in-house and transition away from customer programs that require pick-and-pack services with supplied components. Approximately 50 employees at its Warminster, PA, facility will be impacted.
Good news was difficult to find in 2010 for the printers of direct mail, not to mention the direct marketing community. Even the United States Postal Service (USPS) struggled in its continuing efforts to offset dwindling volume and out-of-control costs, having seen its request for an exigent price increase denied in late September by the Postal Regulatory Commission.
