Metzgers introduced a micro-site to sell large-format presentation checks under the brand Print Big Checks and an online digital print store, branded The Printing Shack, to provide common business and home items, such as business cards and flyers/sell sheets.
The SpencerLab Digital Color Laboratory is excited to announce the release of a white paper summarizing the results of a unique benchmarking study of digital press Availability and Actual Production time—perhaps the first of its kind. The white paper is available by free download from the SpencerLab website.
On the heels of GRAPH EXPO 2011’s post-show attendance report released last week-which revealed buyers up 7 percent and buyer companies up 12 percent over last year’s show-are just sampling of comments from attendees and exhibitors who spoke out on the quality of this year’s show.
Quick and small commercial printers now expect sales to come in relatively flat (-0.3 percent) for all of 2011, a sharp reversal from the expectation of 5.1 percent gains they expressed in May, according to the latest “Quick and Small Commercial Printers Trends Report.”
Xerox rounded up a collection of high-volume customers and a couple dozen industry analysts and press to see the first installation of its CiPress 500, the new waterless inkjet press installed at dmh Marketing Partners, an enormous direct mail operation based in Mt. Pleasant, IA.
Wide- and grand-format printers really stood out around the show floor, with the size of some devices giving them the impression of being the new “heavy iron” in the industry. Even the new crop of inkjet presses for high-volume page production was overshadowed a bit by their wider brethren, as fewer vendors elected to bring machines to Chicago.
Instead of seeing a gaggle of tire kickers, the printers and trade finishers who perused McCormick Place South during Graph Expo 2011 had more sober intentions. There is clearly pent-up demand in the marketplace, particularly for finishing equipment.
Commercial printer equipment installations and other news from Printing Impressions’ Oct. 2011 edition, featuring items on Docuplex Graphics, Haapanen Brothers and J.W. Boarman Co.
Leveraging the North American debut of its inkjet production press at Graph Expo 2011, Xerox Corp. took a group on a side trip to Iowa to see the press in production. Now known as the CiPress 500, dmh Marketing Partners has been the first print service provider in the United States running the machine.
WASHINGTON, DC—Xerox Corp. has been awarded a $103 million, five-year contract to provide printing services and technology for the Department of Defense. Xerox will manage the in-house printing for the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Document Services.
