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Boston Print Buyers (BPB) will host a special social event on Wednesday, April 14th, at the Museum of Printing in North Andover, MA. Attendees will be treated to a tour of the Museum while mingling with other industry professionals and enjoying drinks and light refreshments. This special event runs from 5:30 – 8:00 pm on April 14th. The registration fee is $10. Everyone is invited to attend.
For industry professionals who haven’t seen the likes of strike-on typesetters, phototypesetters, hand-fed letterpresses, engraving presses, and roto-gravure equipment, the 25,000-square-foot Museum holds print manufacturing treasures that date back hundreds of years. The Museum of Printing is a nonprofit organization dating back to 1978. It was established to save printing equipment as well as library materials associated with arcane technologies, as noted on the web site at http://www.museumofprinting.org.
INTERQUEST - 2010 Digital Book Printing Forum will be held Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at the Marriott Marquis New York in midtown Manhattan during the annual Publishing Business Conference Expo organized by Book Business magazine. Interquest announced an impressive lineup of speakers and panelists from leading vendors, printers, publishers, and distributors for its annual Digital Book Printing Forum. The educational forum on trends and opportunities in digital book manufacturing is held in New York City in conjunction with the world-class Publishing Business Conference & Expo (produced by Book Business magazine).
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IN the NEWS
17 February - GMC Software Technology Sweeps Xplor’s 2010 Awards. For the third year, GMC Software Technology is recognized in the Technology Application of the Year Award Category along with customer ABnote of Sao Paolo, Brazil, for a highly successful TransPromo pilot program utilizing PrintNet™. GMC also named as winner of Xplor International’s “Innovator of the Year” award for GMC PortalBuilder.
15 February - Océ Business Services, a leader in document process management and technology, has been named to the top-ranked Leaders category of the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals’ (IAOP®) 2010 Global Outsourcing 100® list. The list defines the standard of excellence in outsourcing service delivery. This is the fourth straight year in which Océ Business Services has been ranked a Leader in The Global Outsourcing 100.
12 February - BÖWE BELL + HOWELL, a leading provider of document management solutions and services, today announced an exclusive distribution agreement with Miami Systems Corporation. Miami Systems will now supply BBH customers with “invelope” materials for the BBH® MAILStream Inveloper™, a revolutionary eco-friendly system that wraps, seals and addresses customer messages while dramatically reducing paper cost and usage by as much as 40 percent. The relationship provides customers with a reliable, consistent and cost-effective source of inveloping materials.
11 February - Rosetta Technologies, a leading provider of MICR printers and check and Image Replacement Document (IRD) software solutions, announced today that ESSA Bank & Trust, a community bank with 13 offices in and around the Pocono, Pennsylvania area, has chosen Rosetta’s IRDPrint™ Advanced Returns software solution. IRDPrint Advanced Returns allows ESSA Bank to automatically convert in-clearing returns into personalized customer letters that merge the explanation of charges and legal rights with a tear-off return IRD in one complete document.
11 February - Georgia Printer magazine, an educational project of The Printing & Imaging Association of Georgia (PIAG) has been featured on PaperSpecs.com as a case study and testament to the power of print. Georgia Printer’s Fall 2009 issue was selected because of the innovative use of Rub’nSmell scent on its cover, the result of collaboration between Envision Printing, Scentisphere, Neenah Paper, and PIAG. Read the featured PaperSpecs article online at: http://www.paperspecs.com/mainblog/the-sweet-smell/
10 February - ACOM Solutions, Inc. has enhanced the EZRetrieve module for its EZContentManager (EZCM) electronic document management system with data retrieval capability that is operational from within any on-screen application and in addition, it has enabled the module to run as a free-standing utility able to perform Microsoft SharePoint searches as well. EZRetrieve 2.0 provides a direct connection to data in EZContentManager or SharePoint from any defined point within an application. EZRetrieve runs in the background of the application being used, and can be accessed by means of a button created in the task bar. With the new integrated buttons, there are now two user options for accessing files and performing data searches: hot-keys and buttons, with user preference determining which one to use.
10 February - BÖWE BELL + HOWELL (BBH) and InfoSeal, a leading manufacturer of pressure seal forms, announced an expanded distribution agreement for BBH to become a reseller of InfoSeal pressure seal forms. BBH has been a distributor of pressure seal equipment for more than five years, and this agreement now provides BBH customers with single-source ease for ordering supplies. The announcement is one of several such agreements released recently by the company.
10 January - Komori America Corporation, a premier manufacturer of sheetfed and web offset printing presses, today announced that Shawmut Printing, a full-service commercial printer located in Danvers, Massachusetts, recently installed its fourth Komori press, a five color Lithrone S40 (LS540) with advanced interface (AI) software, to answer the company’s increased demand for high quality, more sophisticated applications. The LS540 coupled with AI software improves profitability through reduced waste, and significantly improves press productivity and print quality. In selecting the press, Shawmut Printing was particularly impressed that AI technology allows all press functions to be preset from the console, saving time and money. In addition, the AI software also has self-learning technology that progressively updates press settings over time to reduce waste. Shawmut’s long-term relationship and high satisfaction with the advanced technology and the ease-of-use of Komori’s Lithrone presses were additional factors in the decision to add a more advanced press.
9 February - Crawford Technologies Inc. announced that it has launched QR Express, a module for its Transpromo Express product that enables the application of QR Codes to bills, statements and other transactional customer communications. This new module will allow clients to set up automated processes to create and apply these codes in a matter of days. QR Codes (short for Quick Response) can store up to 4KB of data. When scanned with a smart phone, it directs consumers to specific web pages to present them with targeted offers for new products, services or service information. Companies employing this technology can expect to enhance revenues, profitability and customer retention, and see a rapid ROI on both reactive and proactive marketing campaigns. See a short video on QR codes at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0XqSs0PxGE.
9 February - Outsell, Inc. of Burlingame, CA and London, the leading research and advisory firm for the information and publishing industries, and Gilbane Group, the leading analyst and consulting firm covering content technologies, today announce that The Gilbane Group, based in Cambridge, MA, has joined Outsell. The addition makes Outsell the only research and advisory firm with 360-degree coverage of the information industry—established and disruptive information providers, users, enterprises, advertisers, libraries and the technologies underlying the industry’s evolution.
NAMES in the NEWS
19 February - Press-sense announced today the appointment of Amir Shaked, President of Press-sense Americas for the past two years, to the position of CEO of Press-sense. The managerial changes are effective immediately. For more information, go to http://www.press-sense.com.
16 February - David Cameron, PhD, senior consultant and partner at Photizo Group, will speak at the IKON Office Solutions’ Digital Discovery event in San Antonio, Feb. 18, 2010 about the emergence of managed print services as an untapped source of potential IT cost savings. The IKON event is designed to help IKON’s clients understand how IKON can help them improve business efficiency and do more with less.
Cameron has over 20 years of experience in the hardcopy industry, including a range of positions from managing after sales support, engineering and business director leadership positions at Texas Instruments, IBM Global Services and Dell.
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