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Graphics of the Americas Expo & Conference (GOA) will open its doors tomorrow for the 40th straight year. Being held Feb. 26-28, 2015, at the Miami Beach Convention Center, exhibitors are taking advantage of the special anniversary year to show the latest technology across the industry.

Seeking a solution to helps its franchise members, Allegra Network selected Avanti Slingshot from Ricoh to integrate with other key software tools that will form its WorkStream technology package. The print MIS solution will be offered across 270 franchise locations.

Printing Impressions and its sister publication, Book Business, hosted the Digital Book Printing Conference (a.k.a. DigiBook) at the Marriott Marquis in New York on November 19th. In other news, Manroland Sheetfed hosted the ROLAND 700 Evolution event that took place at its headquarters in Offenbach Am Main, Germany.

Commercial printing industry supplier company and personnel news from Printing Impressions’ January 2015 edition, Fujifilm North America, HP, C.P. Bourg Group, PrintLink Canada, Three Dog Logistics, Heidelberg, BluePrint Products, Ricoh, Esko, Finch Paper, X-Rite Inc. and Connemara Converting.

With the addition of a Ricoh InfoPrint 5000 MP monochrome continuous-feed inkjet printer, and Ricoh's ProcessDirector workflow software, part of the Critical Communications solution suite, arvato North America can now take advantage of the migration to an on-demand environment.

SOLANA BEACH, CA—Ricoh announced that it has acquired PTI Marketing Technologies, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) marketing asset management and marketing solutions provider based here. The multimillion-dollar acquisition will enable Ricoh and PTI to continue developing new marketing collateral management tools that help enterprises and commercial printers improve control of their marketing assets and workflow.

The newest Patron of the Sustainable Green Printing Partnership (SGP) is Ricoh Americas, which joined at the platinum level. SGP certifies printing facilities' sustainability best practices, including and beyond regulatory compliance. Its Patrons help support the organization and keep costs low for applicants.

Ricoh has acquired SaaS (software-as-a-service) marketing asset management and marketing solutions provider PTI Marketing Technologies. The multi-million dollar acquisition ensures that Ricoh and PTI will continue to develop new marketing collateral management tools that help enterprises and commercial printers improve control of their marketing assets and workflow.

In the "One Tone, Many Possibilities: Meeting Needs and Exceeding Expectations with Monochrome Inkjet Platforms" Webinar recently presented by Printing Impressions and In-plant Graphics, and sponsored by Ricoh, Bob Kolva, director of data and imaging operations at Action Mailers; and Todd Potrykus, director of operations at Arvato, discussed how they're achieving higher throughput, lowering their total cost of ownership, as well as boosting the print quality of complex jobs with their Ricoh InfoPrint 5000 MP monochrome inkjet presses.

Current users will discuss how continuous-feed monochrome inkjet platforms are helping them achieve high print throughput and more.