AliGraphics, a full-service printing and graphics company, has added 8,000 square feet to its current facility, bringing its total plant size to 13,000 square feet. The expansion was designed to accommodate more production equipment and provide additional office space.
The Printing Association of Florida (PAF) is busily preparing for its 37th annual Graphics of the Americas Expo & Conference (GOA), being held this week on March 1-3, 2012 at the Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami Beach, FL. Non-stop show floor activities include a powerful keynote presentation by AGI’s Christopher Smith; the popular Wide Format Print Shop Live area, live demonstrations, free sessions by Xerox and HP, and more.
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.
The Print Industries Market Information and Research Organization (PRIMIR) recently announced the officers and members of its 2012 Executive Committee. Eric Frank, vice president of marketing, KBA North America, was elected as the organization's chairman. A graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Frank has more than 25 years of printing industry experience and is active in a number of industry associations.
As president, Xerox Global Graphic Communications, Jeffrey Jacobson assumes a new role at the company that focuses on worldwide strategy, operations, product development, marketing, sales and support of Xerox’s production systems portfolio and related software and workflow offerings.
Binding and finishing news briefs from Printing Impressions’ February 2012 edition, including All Color Business Specialties’ new folding system.
Business forms, labels and digital specialist Standard Register has purchased eight Xerox iGen4 EXP presses and four HP Indigo digital presses. The firm has also implemented a strategic restructuring program, which will trim its workforce by 12-15 percent.
Budco, a leading fulfillment and direct marketing organization, announced it has expanded the company’s New Jersey-based print and fulfillment center through the addition of a third Xerox iGen digital color press. The additional Xerox iGen4 is also equipped with the capability to handle a larger press sheet size (14.33x26”).
DAYTON, OH—Business forms, labels and digital specialist Standard Register has purchased eight Xerox iGen4 EXP presses. The machines are located in five Standard Register print centers across the country.
The eight iGen4 digital color presses are located in five Standard Register print centers across the United States. “It is one thing to say you can deliver high-quality, color-critical documents, but it is quite another to build a national footprint to ensure repeatable, sustainable, color-critical documents as Standard Register has done,” said Steve McDonell.
