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RESTON, VA—Demonstrating to printers JDF’s potential for profit, GRAPH EXPO® 2008 will showcase for the first time ever a JDF workflow live on the show floor this October 26 - 29, 2008, in Chicago’s McCormick Place South. Involving several vendors and the CIP4 Organization, JDF Works Print Shop Live! is designed to show attendees exactly what can be accomplished with technologies that are already available today. Mirroring conditions in a real print shop, JDF Works Print Shop Live! will produce an application from design to completion, using equipment from many different vendors. A greeting area will be set up so attendees

Green Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony for Eco-Friendly Machine MIAMI—Original Impressions recently announced a series of “Going Green” initiatives, while unveiling its newly installed Heidelberg XL 105 printing press. The announcements were made at the company’s two-day open house held in conjunction with Earth Day. At the event, Founder and CEO Roland B. Garcia Sr. provided opening remarks on the evolution of the company’s business plan to include environmentally sustainable initiatives. Additionally, Bill Eline, sales manager, Heidelberg, was on hand to discuss the eco-friendly attributes of the new printing press. The press will allow Original Impressions to significantly decrease its carbon footprint by reducing CO2 emissions generated

IN ORDER to remain competitive and profitable, graphic communications providers must travel beyond just putting ink on paper—expanding their services to variable data, the Web and cross-media. The first annual PIA/GATF “Converge: Variable Data, Web Services and Cross-Media Conference” will be held September 20-23 in Phoenix. Three tracks containing fundamental, advanced, and sales and marketing sessions, make this conference suitable for companies just beginning to redefine their digital services, as well as veteran practitioners. This special section has been designed to highlight some of the key conference topics and speakers. The Converge Conference is a combination of PIA/GATF’s Workflow and Variable Data and

MISSION VIEJO, CA—July 22, 2008—Franchise Services, Inc. is pleased to announce that more than 200 franchise owners and salespeople from around the world received awards at the annual Sir Speedy and PIP International Convention and Vendor Show at the Westin Diplomat in Fort Lauderdale, FL, July 9-12. Don and Bernadette Sanders of Amarillo, TX, received the Sir Speedy “Franchisee of the Year” award and Frank and Clarice Petrellis of Kissimmee, FL, received the PIP “Franchisee of the Year” award. Jim Corliss, Jerry Hogan and Jose Tafur of Braintree, MA, received the Sir Speedy “Top Volume” award and the Fulner Family of Indianapolis and

DRUPA’S STANDING as an international printing exhibition makes it the place to see the course of technological development in the industry laid out for the next four years. As even the following press and postpress wrap-up stories note, digital printing technology had its strongest showing yet. Even the developments in digital workflow were muted by comparison. Many of the product introductions were already covered in one of the Drupa Countdown stories published in editions of Printing Impressions leading up to the show. Therefore, this wrap-up will primarily focus on what was new in Düsseldorf. The event lived up to its billing as The Ink-Jet

ROCHESTER, NY— June 18, 2008—Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX) today announced that Ifolor AG, a photo and print lab based in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland, has agreed to purchase multiple Xerox iGen4 Presses. The deal was struck at drupa, the world’s largest print trade show, in Düsseldorf, Germany. It caps a very successful event for Xerox, which sold more than 300 digital systems and software. In addition to the iGen4 Presses, Ifolor also upgraded three of its existing iGen3® Digital Production Presses with Xerox’s new Automated Color Quality Suite Press Matching System. The sale marks one of the world’s largest orders to date for Xerox iGen

DÜSSELDORF, GERMANY—06/11/08—This week at drupa, visitors to Xerox’s stand, 8b/A78, saw more than 50 real-world digital printing applications being produced live by Xerox and its customers. Attendees learned how to produce these solutions by visiting conversation stations where the demonstrations took place. New business applications and collateral pieces were two of six types of applications on display, including the following examples: • A folding carton Stora Enso Gallop solution, co-developed by Xerox, for the pharmaceutical industry that combines digital printing with customized packaging technologies. At drupa, attendees learned how an integrated, in-line workflow solution is necessary to deliver cost-effective short-run packaging. A demonstration

DÜSSELDORF, GERMANY—June 6, 2008 – Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX) is bringing a deeper shade of green to its environmental sustainability efforts at drupa 2008, the world’s premier printing event. The company’s sweeping initiatives include a stand that was designed, constructed and staged in a sustainable way, and a range of offerings to help Xerox customers go green. These include a broad focus on products, services and applications that are eco-friendly, and new educational materials and training sessions on sustainability. “At Xerox, we take a three-pronged approach to sustainability,” said Tom Wetjen, vice president, Worldwide Graphic Communications Industry, Xerox

Behind the Scenes R&D on New Line of Eco-Friendly Inks CARLSTADT, NJ—At Sun Chemical’s Carlstadt Technical Center, a research and development facility, more than 100 scientists and support staff from around the globe test the analysis, surface characterization, interfacial dynamics and synthesis of new inks. Some new developments at the facility include Earth sheetfed inks, which produce only 2 percent VOCs, and offer sharp lithographic dot fidelity, high-trap efficiency, well-maintained density during press runs and fast color accuracy; and Liberty eco-friendly inks that offer sharp press stability and ultra-fast drying; the WetFlex printing process, which allows converters to print flexible films at high speed

Magic 8-Ball Says ‘Ask Again’ THE POLICE officer who has a car stolen. The fireman with dead batteries in a smoke detector. The magazine editor who sends an e-mail out with typos in it. There’s a special kind of embarrassment that comes with screwing up at something related to one’s own profession. Yet, one of the regrettable truths of the printing—aka graphic arts, marketing services, communications—industry is that many member companies have a poor track record when it comes to sending out self-promotion campaigns to their own customers and prospects. Adoption of digital printing has been a game changer because of the need to