Brown Printing has installed its first digital press, a Xerox Nuvera 314EA perfecting production system. The new press will enable the company to offer its clients high-print quality, personalization, content customization, on-demand printing, and fast turnaround times.
Xerox Corp. is closing part of a call center operation in North Carolina that employs roughly 500. According to the Connecticut-based printing and business services giant, the affected Cary, NC, call center jobs will be eliminated effect Nov. 14, but the company plans to place more than half those workers within other Xerox operations there.
Xerox said separation packages will be provided to those who qualify. Xerox is one of the Rochester area’s largest employers with roughly 6,300 workers locally.
With only two sheetfed offset presses on the show floor, digital printing vendors were the 'hot' booths at PRINT 13. Here's a sampling of some of the production inkjet, wide-format inkjet and toner-based digital presses that were highlighted for commercial print shops
With roots that go back almost 50 years, Sandy Alexander, of Clifton, NJ, is the product of a long string of corporate mergers, executive shifts and proprietary realignments. The most recent of these came in the announcement that a management team under Michael Graff, Sandy Alexander's president and CEO, had completed a buyout of the company from its former owners.
Computers are part of everything now—our phones, cars, refrigerators—and the age of wearable electronics is not that far off. One of the technologies that's making those advances possible is flexible electronics, and one of the researchers on the forefront of that frontier is Mandakini Kanungo, a research scientist at the Xerox Research Center in Webster.
"Imagine smart bandages that can monitor your wound and tell you when it's going to heal," she said. "You could even surgically implant a sensor directly inside the human brain."
Printed and flexible electronics are an important component of devices that Xerox manufactures. But Kanungo said
The Print and Graphics Scholarship Foundation (PGSF) has announced its 2013 Slate of Officers, and six additions to the board of directors. The new officers are John Berthelsen, chairman; Doug Yeager, vice chairman; and John Dreisbach, secretary/treasurer. The new members of the PGSF Board of Directors include
There are opportunities in digital print for packaging, but also challenges. Among the challenges are selling the value proposition to end users, format, and workflow. One solution at PRINT 13 was the Xanté Excelagraphix 4200P, which Xanté COO Mark Swanzy says is unique in terms of high-speed, small footprint, and high-quality printing.
The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) Alumni Association partnered with a local marketing company to develop a targeted cross-media campaign. The two campaigns created delivered the following results: 19 percent response rate for the personalized test campaign; and a 6 percent response rate for UTSA Alumni Association personalized postcard campaign.
Xerox will introduce a new platform at PRINT 13 that serves customers’ current and future automation needs—Xerox FreeFlow Core. The nucleus workflow tool is ideal for any customer environment—from small independent print shops to large multi-national production companies.
The PRINT 13 Must See 'Ems winners have been announced. The 49 winning technologies were selected from a record number of entries submitted by a record number of individual companies.
