Xerox Corp.

The leading independent organization for people who purchase, design for, or market with print and e-media triumphed on its home turf once again with the 2012 PBI Print & Media Boston Conference.

Braintree Printing has upgraded its digital printing fleet with the addition of a Xerox iGen4 EXP press, which supports an expanded 14.33x26" sheet size. “This machine uses the industry’s largest sheet size and produces quality pieces like we’ve never seen before on traditional digital printing presses,” noted Braintree’s owner, Jim Corliss.

The Xerox Premier Partners Congress will take place at the Messe Düsseldorf on May 3-4, the first two days of drupa and will feature presentations by leading industry analysts, customers and top Xerox executives, including Chairman and CEO Ursula Burns.

Xerox Corp., which ended 2011 as more of a business services company than an equipment manufacturer, started off 2012 by taking even more strides along that path. The (latest) quarter marked a watershed moment for Xerox, as services not only continued to be a bigger part of the company than technology but also—for the first time—accounted for a majority of overall revenue.

Technology revenue from the sale, supplies and servicing of such hardware as Webster-manufactured iGen and CiPress digital printing presses was down 5 percent.

The printing business “remains core to our business model,” (CEO Ursula) Burns said Monday

From May 3-16, all planes, trains and automobiles will lead to Düsseldorf, Germany, for drupa 2012, the mega-exhibition that brings together graphic arts professionals from around the world and showcases cutting-edge innovations. Although Americans will represent a very small percentage of the expected 350,000 visitors converging on the fairgrounds’ 19 halls filled with 1,850 exhibitors, the new products and technology demonstrations at drupa provide a compass point for the technological direction that the U.S. industry will take for years to come.

Commercial printer equipment installations and other news from Printing Impressions’ April 2012 edition, featuring Source One Digital, O'Neil Data Systems and Lew A. Cummings Co.

Nearly two-thirds of the 150 attendees at the 2012 Digital Book Printing Forum were publishers and printers. According to Gilles Biscos, president of INTERQUEST, “Shorter print runs, better inventory management, and the growing popularity of eBooks are changing the supply chain for printed books.”

With a focus on enabling service providers and brand managers to efficiently engage customers and prospects through relevant, individualized communications, XMPie will demonstrate its latest, state-of-the-art software products at drupa 2012

The “cloud”—once the purview of IT geeks and software developers—has gotten personal. For several years, there’s been a movement to transition software from the desktop or local server to the cloud. One example is Web-to-print software, typically offered as Saas (software-as-a-service).

WHITE PLAINS, NY—AliGraphics, a full-service printing and graphics company that’s part of the Amalgamated Family of Companies, recently underwent a facilities expansion at its current location. The company added 8,000 square feet of space, bringing its total square footage to 13,000 square feet.