Xerox has taken counterfeit prevention measures to protect customers from counterfeit consumables and products, which unknowingly lead to damaged equipment, shoddy output and higher costs. The company has also assembled a worldwide team consisting of brand protection, corporate security and legal to combat counterfeit activities.
Jeff Jacobson, formerly COO of the Xerox Technology Business, has been named president following the retirement of Armando Zagalo de Lima. Jacobson now oversees Xerox’s Graphic Communications Operations, Large Enterprise Operations and Channel Partner Operations. “Xerox is putting a great emphasis on print,” Jacobson told Printing Impressions Editor-in-Chief Mark Michelson in a conference call following the announcement.
When it comes to variable data work, digital printers are the ones doing touchdown dances. And on the long-run end of the spectrum, offset printing still reigns supreme. But in the realm of short-run, static work, where digital and offset both frolic, there is harmony in the versatility of being able to use one production process or the other.
Nestled between O'Hare International Airport and Chicago in Harwood Heights, IL, FCL Graphics has been pumping out printed products for more than 40 years—and at the same address, no less (although it has expanded). Even amidst an uncertain future for print, the company's roots have remained firm. But its success has been centered around its ability to bend and grow with the market. These days, it's almost essential that a printer offer a menu of ancillary services in order to thrive. FCL does just that.
Commercial printing industry supplier company and personnel news from Printing Impressions’ July 2014 edition, featuring xpedx and Unisource Worldwide, EFI, eLynxx Solutions, AmeriLam Supply Group, Saint Clair Systems, Norcross Corp.
Held at the Ponte Vedra Inn & Club in Florida, the Inkjet Summit is an invitation-only, hosted event designed for senior managers and business executives from print providers and corporate enterprises that are looking to develop strategies, understand their options and make major investment decisions around inkjet printing technology.
Xerox's new Versant 2100 digital press is designed for commercial printers, quick printers and in-plant operations. The 100 page-per-minute device—versatile for any production environment—combines speed, exclusive image quality and automation features to create colorful personalized communications, collateral, brochures, photo publishing and specialty products.
NEW YORK—The Advisory Board of the NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies (NYU-SCPS) Graphic Communications Management and Technology (GCMT) graduate program has selected Charles Townsend, CEO of Condé Nast, as the recipient of the 2014 Prism Award. Presented annually, the Prism Award recognizes distinguished leadership in the graphic communications media industry.
Robert Zapfel has been selected as the the new president, Xerox Services and an executive vice president of the corporation. Joining the company on April 1, he will report to Xerox Chairman and CEO Ursula Burns, and will succeed Lynn Blodgett, who will retire at the end of 2014.
Construction is underway to more than double the size of Fujifilm's current Technology Center in the Chicago area with the new space expanding to encompass over 20,000 square feet. It will display everything from traditional offset printing to the latest technologies in flexography, wide-format and production inkjet solutions.
