From menus printed on polyester to marketing pieces with visual highlights, print providers—including AlphaGraphics, Cornerstone Copy Center and Turbo Press—report capturing new, lucrative jobs with Xerox Corp.’s Color 800/1000 presses and its after sale business development support.
Drupa 2008 has claim to the label, but calling this the Inkjet Graph Expo was even more apt because the technology accounted for much of the printing equipment running on the show floor. That's, of course, factoring in the large number of wide- and superwide/grand-format inkjet printers on display.
Commercial printing industry supplier company and personnel news from Printing Impressions' October 2010 edition.
Xerox will host a special marketing keynote at GRAPH EXPO 2010, featuring stories of marketing transformation and digital marketing successes. Bo Jackson, former football and baseball star and current entrepreneur, will discuss how to reinvent a brand to stay relevant.
PDF/VT enables reliable document exchange for variable data and transactional printing. It uses the Portable Document Format (PDF) based on the existing ISO PDF/X-4 and PDF/X-5 standards and will simplify VDP printing in a range of environments, from desktop printers to digital production presses.
XMPie will be highlighting the latest version of its award-winning PersonalEffect® software at GRAPH EXPO. Built to leverage Adobe® technology, PersonalEffect 5.0 and the entire XMPie family of products now support Adobe Creative Suite 5.0 (CS5).
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.
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.
Scheduled to run Sept. 12-15 and themed “Reaching Beyond Boundaries,” meeting attendees will learn how to expand the boundaries of their marketing capabilities and further develop their knowledge of XMPie.
The European Digital Press Association acknowledged PersonalEffect e-Media, XMPie’s email and Web solution, with an EDP Award as the Best Variable Data/Versioning Product of 2010.
