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Commercial printer equipment installations and other news from Printing Impressions’ December 2011 edition, featuring items on McCoy Printing and Veritas Document Solutions.

Contradicting typical protocol of an evening at the symphony, patrons attending Saturday (Nov. 12, 2011) evening’s performance at the Stamford Symphony will be invited to turn their smartphones on and scan QR codes that will appear on the Symphony program.

Seeing the equipment and software on the show floor are only part of the value of shows like Graph Expo. At least for analysts and members of the press, a big part is learning how companies are approaching the market and how they think about their products and services.

Wide- and grand-format printers really stood out around the show floor, with the size of some devices giving them the impression of being the new “heavy iron” in the industry. Even the new crop of inkjet presses for high-volume page production was overshadowed a bit by their wider brethren, as fewer vendors elected to bring machines to Chicago.

Instead of seeing a gaggle of tire kickers, the printers and trade finishers who perused McCormick Place South during Graph Expo 2011 had more sober intentions. There is clearly pent-up demand in the marketplace, particularly for finishing equipment.

Commercial printer equipment installations and other news from Printing Impressions’ Oct. 2011 edition, featuring items on Docuplex Graphics, Haapanen Brothers and J.W. Boarman Co.

Pitney Bowes has signed 18 strategic alliance agreements with large volume mailers who represent more than 1,800 brands for the for the Volly secure digital delivery service. Financial Statement Services (FSSI) and Superior Mailing Services, are just a couple of the large volume third-party mailers who have signed agreements with Pitney Bowes.

Pitney Bowes announced it will showcase its latest technologies and solutions to help organizations enhance customer communications, lower operational costs, and increase production efficiency at GRAPH EXPO 2011. Pitney Bowes will exhibit its latest innovations in Booth #2010.

Wilen Direct has acquired the Pitney Bowes Print+ Messenger color inkjet system to create individually customized, four-color envelopes for its clients to use in their marketing and customer communications campaigns. “Our forward-leaning customers are excited to embrace these new capabilities,” said Darrin Wilen, president of Wilen Media.

STAMFORD, CT—Pitney Bowes is opening a new mail presorting facility in Grand Prairie, TX. The new site replaces the company’s former facility nearby that was destroyed in a fire this past February. Despite the disaster, Pitney Bowes made all requested customer pickups and began processing customer mail at other locations within 24 hours of the fire, which started in an adjoining business.