Dscoop Launches New Member Benefits, Announces New Board of Directors

CHICAGO—12/07/06—The Digital Solutions Cooperative (Dscoop) has launched a new Web-to-print solution being offered only to members of the user-driven community of HP Indigo press owners and their sales, marketing and production teams. Created by Saepio Technologies, this solution allows Dscoop members to easily customize online templates with their company logo, contact information and success stories for their sales and marketing teams to show clients the creative and innovative capabilities that they can offer.

“This solution provides members the opportunity to truly educate their clients about 1-1 marketing, variable data printing and collateral on demand and show them proof of it. I know our sales team will be utilizing this tool and this benefit alone is worth our Dscoop membership investment” said Todd Kalagher, Dscoop Board member and President of Finlay in Bloomfield, CT.

In other news, Dscoop’s 2007 Annual Conference will bring together the user community and HP executives, representatives, and partners to facilitate knowledge sharing and networking among the entire community for a second time, which will be held February 1-3, 2007 at the Saddlebrook Resort in Tampa, FL.

The Digital Solutions Cooperative has also recently decided on their new Board of Directors slate for 2006-2007. Acting as Dscoop Chairman of the Board again for the second year is Jack Glacken, President of Today’s Graphics. Todd Kalagher of Finlay has been elected Chairman-Elect for the 2006-2007 board after a year of service on the Board of Directors.

Dscoop welcomes Larry Vaughn of Ideal Printers (Houston, TX) to the Dscoop Board as the new VP of Finance. Larry has acted as the Chairman of the Dscoop Annual Conference in both 2006 and 2007 and a very active Dscoop member. Art Manzo of Global Soft Digital Solutions (Mahwah, NJ) was also elected as the new Dscoop Treasurer for 2007. Other members of the Dscoop Board of Directors include: