April 1, 2011
Commercial printing industry supplier company and personnel news from Printing Impressions’ April 2011 edition.
Xerox Corp.
March 22, 2011
Doug Rawson, founder and CEO of Superior Lithographics, has been named 2011 Executive of the Year by the Printing Industries Association, Inc. of Southern California (PIASC). Rawson will be presented with the PIASC award at the organization's annual Graphics Night on March 26, 2011.
March 11, 2011
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA—Interquest, a market and technology research and consulting firm serving the digital printing and publishing industry, announced that Lulu.com Founder and CEO Bob Young will headline a lineup of speakers and panelists at its annual educational forum on trends and opportunities in digital book manufacturing.
March 11, 2011
This virtual trade show featuring the latest in marketing tools and know-how will be held on Tuesday, March 15. Xerox customers Anderson Direct Marketing, Print Three and EU Services will share their broad experience in generating cross-media campaigns via live chat.
March 11, 2011
With hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal judgments hanging over its head, ICM Inc., a local (Richmond, VA) direct mail and advertising company, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy Thursday. That means it will be liquidated. The company, also known as In Control Mailing Inc., had assets of $128,000 but owed more than $1.81 million all over town, according to the bankruptcy filings.
ICM has been battling lawsuits for breach of contract and money owed filed by vendors including Xerox, Kenmore Envelope Co., Sir Speedy and Pitney Bowes, among others, the filings show.
March 4, 2011
Bryant Graphics, Allpro Direct Marketing, basiQa and EarthDigital have all added the digital color press to their printing arsenals. Graphic communications firm Bryant ended an existing lease on a competitive device to purchase an iGen4 EXP.
March 3, 2011
SCICOM is using the iGen4 220, which is configured with two Xerox iGen4 110 presses running in tandem, to produce jobs for clients in the financial, insurance, healthcare, utilities and manufacturing sectors. The system prints 220 impressions per minute.
March 1, 2011
Differences in the inkjet imaging systems now being employed can have an impact—to varying degrees and relative to each other—on head cost, failure rate and cleaning/maintenance requirements; substrate flexibility; print resolution; color saturation; print width; and more. It doesn't quite rise to the level of an apples to oranges comparison, but the technology has very distinct flavors.
March 1, 2011
Digital printing news from the PODi AppForum, Xerox, Kodak and Konica Minolta in Printing Impressions’ March 2011 edition.
February 25, 2011
CHANHASSEN, MN—IWCO Direct, a provider of direct marketing solutions, has bolstered its full-color, variable data digital printing capacity with the installation of a new Xerox iGen4 at its facility here. This installation continues to grow IWCO Direct's platform-wide digital print capability and capacity.
