"Most recently BCT Houston has added a Sakurai six tower press with in-line aqueous coating. They have also added a Canon imagePRESS C7000," stated Ben Fretti, Senior Vice President. Plants in Des Moines, IA; Tempe, AZ; Chicago and San Antonio, TX have all added half-sheet presses and Canon or Xerox digital color capabilities to their existing four-color offset capabilities.
Thirty nationally-recognized companies are sponsoring the Printing Industries Alliance’s upcoming 2010 Franklin Event to date. More than 500 senior executives from the printing, advertising, publishing and graphic sectors are expected to attend the popular annual gala scheduled for Wednesday, September 29.
BRAINTREE, MA—Commercial and quick printing provider Braintree Printing has installed a second Xerox iGen4 digital color press in order to meet the needs of other printers, brokers and print resellers throughout New England and New York. The company says it has seen "explosive growth" in the number of color pages it produces, averaging more than one million a month.
Three print service providers in southern California report seeing their digital businesses soar as much as 65 percent, aided by Xerox’s business development resources that helped them uncover new revenue opportunities by focusing on best practices, staff training and target marketing.
"Customer demand for color copying has exploded this year. We average one million color pages a month and run two extended shifts operating our two iGens an average of 20 hours per day," reports owner Jim Corliss.
InfoPrint Solutions Company, a Ricoh company, today announced that Transactis has chosen InfoPrint as its software and services partner as it transitions to an Automated Document Factory (ADF) environment for its transaction and TransPromo statement and direct mail printing and posting.
KING OF PRUSSIA, PA—Conlin's Digital Print & Copy Center has installed a new Xerox Color 1000 press, as well as two Xerox Nuvera 144 EA monochrome production systems. The company believes that the Color 1000's clear dry ink capabilities will help generate new market opportunities by offering highlighted images and text for short-run magazines and promotional marketing materials.
Conlin’s Digital Print & Copy Center is among the first in its area to install Xerox Corp.’s new Color 1000 digital press. It also added two Xerox Nuvera 144 EA monochrome production systems, bringing its total to five.
Franklin Communications in Miami received the coveted Golden Flamingo Award, presented each year to the company that wins the most first-place awards. Awards were presented to 50 Florida-based printing, graphic arts companies and schools.
Ten others, including Printing Impressions Publisher Dave Leskusky, will be inducted into the Soderstrom Society, which recognizes the contributions of industry leaders.
