Bethlam Forsa, executive vice president, content development and publishing operations at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, will kick off the 2012 Digital Book Printing Forum with the opening keynote address. Following that address, INTERQUEST will present key results from recent research it has conducted in digital book printing sector.
For 2012, the Technology Application of the Year award is given to The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and Ricoh Production Print Solutions. GMC Software Technology has been named Innovator of the Year for its GMC Inspire product.
The (Louisiana State University) magazine hit another snag Thursday when Mele Printing (Covington, LA) also declined to publish Legacy for the same reason—a sexual article titled “Kink” that the company claimed conflicted with its Christian values. “Mele Printing reserves the right not to print material that glorifies pornography, abortion or sexual behavior that is in opposition of our morals,” an official from the company wrote in an e-mail to Bob Ritter, director of Student Media.
Marie Frank, the University’s chief procurement officer, said the Office of Procurement Services is obtaining a quote from Ricoh to print Legacy.
The 150 VIP attendees at Heidelberg’s recent President’s event witnessed a mix of high and low energy. The “high” was a kickoff tribute dinner for former president Jim Dunn; the “low” was an educational program focusing on low-energy UV printing.
Commercial printing industry supplier company and personnel news from Printing Impressions’ February 2012 edition, focusing on Heidelberg USA's two-day President's event.
Ricoh’s The Next Chapter event, its first-ever invitational event to be held on March 6-8, 2012, in Boulder, is intended to bridge the gap between publishers and book manufacturers by addressing the challenging business issues facing the market.
Twenty of the printing industry’s foremost suppliers have signed on as sponsors for the upcoming Vision 3 Summit to be held Feb. 19-22, 2012, at the Marco Island Marriot in Marco Island, FL. The second-annual executive leadership conference has the theme “Focus Your Vision on Transformation and Growth.”
Commercial printer equipment installations and other news from Printing Impressions’ January 2012 edition, featuring items on Mollet Printing, Jarob Inc. and Wild Apple Graphics.
Today it is becoming much more common to find printers using more than one printing technology. The trend in the future will be for much of the work to be done using a common workflow and for the output technology to be selected at the time of production.
Serving the Chicagoland area since 1946, VISOgraphic is a digital and conventional graphic communications company. The Ricoh Pro C901 Graphic Arts Edition color printing system is its fourth digital press, and first from Ricoh. “Over the last couple of years, we’ve seen the industry demand more printing jobs with smaller runs that incorporate variable data,” said Robert V. Dahlke, president.
