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11 February - Komori America Corporation announced Chase Graphics has installed a fully automated four-color Komori Spica 29 press (Spica 429) at its state-of-the-art facility in Putnam, Connecticut. This is the company’s third Komori press. Chase Graphics, established in 1929, serves local governments, education, and commercial industries. The company recognized a rapidly growing trend among its customers—the need for faster turnaround without losing the Chase Graphics standard for high-quality color applications. The Spica 429 was chosen to enhance Chase Graphic’s color capabilities, diminish makeready time, and speed time to market. Jim St. Jean, president of Chase Graphics, notes that the Spica is more operator friendly than competitive presses. This is partially due to the Spica 429’s full CIP4 data compatibility, allowing implementation of advanced digital workflow for the prepress, press, and postpress operations. Most notably, the highly advanced automation of the Spica 429 has reduced the company’s turnaround time by half.
Océ and Sefas Innovation Announce Strategic Partnership to Broaden Market Availability of Post-Composition Software Tools
19 February - Océ and Sefas Innovation announce the formation of a strategic partnership between the two companies. The collaboration of these two international leaders broadens the availability of comprehensive document processing resources for customers throughout North America, including Océ and Sefas offerings for output management, print stream reengineering and optimization, and production management.
Océ Announces Call for Applications for its Second Annual "Green Reprographer of the Year" Award
17 February - Océ announced its Wide Format Printing Systems division will begin accepting applications for its second annual "Green Reprographer of the Year" award. Applicants will be asked to submit, in writing, their achievements in the area of green business practices and explain how these efforts have assisted their customers to meet their own sustainability goals. The winning reprographer will be announced on April 30, 2009.
Creation of this award was driven by Océ’s longstanding commitment to help reprographers reach their sustainability goals, and those of their customers, through large format printing solutions that are environmentally conscious without sacrificing print quality.
New Océ Arizona 350 XT UV curable flatbed printer for huge, high quality prints
10 February - The award-winning Océ Arizona family of digital flatbed printers has expanded yet again with the introduction of the Océ Arizona 350 XT printer with a dramatically enlarged flatbed table. This latest model in the Océ Arizona family is capable of producing rigid prints as large as 98.4 by 120 inches. A White Ink Option and a Roll Media Option are also available. The Océ Arizona 350 XT printer will make its U.S. debut in Océ booth #4343 at the International Sign Expo, April 16-18 in Las Vegas.
Extra width increases rigid printing capacity
The extra width of the Océ Arizona 350 XT printer enables it to be used in a continuous imaging mode for rigid media up to 49.2 by 98.4 inches, or a standard 4- by 8-foot board. Two rigid boards of this size can be mounted on separate vacuum areas of the flatbed table. While one board is being printed, the other can be changed by the operator. Since the printer never has to stop printing for a media change, users can significantly increase their net print production on boards of this size.
16 February - StreamServe, Inc. announced that it is expanding its global reach by signing on multiple partners around the world to consult, integrate and sell StreamServe’s dynamic document composition, document process automation and enterprise output management solutions.
Reflecting StreamServe’s market reach, Arch Consulting (UK), CSC, EFIDAS, OMS and CS Consulting (Germany), have recently become consulting partners of StreamServe. New resellers of StreamServe’s offerings include Siatel, IORGA, TVH Consulting (France); DCW (Greece); West Nordics, Consebo AB and iStone (Nordics); Comsoft (Switzerland); ProTechnologies (North America); Terna (Austria); Syntegricom (South Africa); Info Industries Group (Russia); DSR (Poland); as well as German partner IT-Power.
Existing partners, Jeeves (Nordics), Uphantis (Benelux) and LHS (Germany) have also expanded their relationships with StreamServe. LHS is now an OEM partner, enabling them to more tightly integrate StreamServe into their product offering to the global telecommunications market.
17 February - Symantec Corp. announced Symantec Endpoint Virtualization Suite, designed to improve end-user productivity and lower the cost of managing endpoint devices. By offering portable, on-demand user workspace management, Symantec Endpoint Virtualization Suite provides a comprehensive solution for creating and managing workspace elements and environments in traditional, virtual and mixed client computing models. Symantec Endpoint Virtualization Suite is scheduled to be available in Spring 2009.
Symantec Endpoint Virtualization Suite allows customers to provision anything from traditional endpoints to full virtual endpoint workspaces based on standards that are hypervisor-, operating system- and hardware platform-agnostic. The solution provides heterogeneous support across traditional endpoint and emerging end-user computing environments (such as server-based computing, virtual hosted desktops and client-side hypervisors). Symantec Endpoint Virtualization Suite integrates leading endpoint virtualization technologies from the recent acquisitions of AppStream and nSuite and includes feature enhancements to other products in the portfolio. Symantec Endpoint Virtualization Suite enables the separation of information from underlying IT infrastructure so that information can be managed easily, protected completely and controlled automatically.
12 February - XEROX - RSA and CP Bourg Repeat as Top Xerox Business Partners of the Year
For the second straight year, Rochester Software Associates Inc. and C.P. Bourg have won the top annual Business Partner of the Year awards in production printing from Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX). They are among 15 business partners who were honored for their continued contributions to Xerox, its customers and the printing industry during 2008.
Xerox works with industry-leading software and hardware providers through the Xerox Business Partner Program to create integrated solutions that extend the capabilities of Xerox products and services. The awards recognize leading partners in two categories - workflow software and document feeding and finishing solutions - for enabling applications that help Xerox and its customers capture new opportunities and achieve business success.
Software Partners of the Year
Rochester Software Associates actually won two awards: Overall Software Partner of the Year and Data Transformation Partner of the Year. RSA solutions boost productivity and lower the costs of many print and content management operations in print production centers, data centers and on networks.
Finishing Partners of the Year
C.P. Bourg also won two awards in the finishing category: Overall Finishing Partner of the Year - for the third year in a row -and Finishing Partner of the Year Monochrome. Print providers use C.P. Bourg's finishing products with Xerox monochrome and color cut-sheet printing systems to create professionally finished books, manuals and pamphlets.
Duplo also won two awards, for Finishing Partner of the Year Production Color and for Outstanding Customer First Finishing Partner of the Year.
NAMES in the NEWS
12 February - The Printing & Imaging Association of Georgia (PIAG) has announced David S. Canady, president of Imedia Group in Macon, Georgia, as their 2009 Chairman of the Board. As chairman, Canady will lead an all-volunteer board of 22 officers and directors. This board is responsible for protecting and advancing the vision and mission of PIAG through regular meetings concerning all aspects of the association. Canady will be responsible for ensuring the success of the 2009 PIAG Board initiatives, and he will represent PIAG throughout the industry and the rest of the business community. Canady and the board will focus on increasing the recognition of the importance of print media in our local, state and national marketplace, as well as to our legislature. Additionally, the association will work to develop future industry leaders and a technically trained workforce.
12 February - The Institute for Graphics and Imaging (IGI) - an education and training organization funded by and dedicated to the printing and graphic arts industry - has named Catherine Case as Curriculum Manager. In this new position, Case will develop, schedule, and supervise IGI training courses, creating an entire curriculum to train graphic arts personnel. An experienced educator and administrator, Catherine Case holds a BFA, an MA and an MFA in graphic design and illustration from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She recently served as Chair of the Graphic Design department at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in Georgia.
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