Mailing/Fulfillment - Hardware

A new MCS Perfect Match System has been installed at Linemark Printing in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. The company, which is celebrating 30 years this year, will be able to increase integrity, personalization and productivity for its clients' match mailing campaigns with this purchase.

Last week, I had the pleasure of visiting Japs-Olson of Minneapolis—a printer that can trace its roots all the way back to 1907! Japs-Olson embodies the lean manufacturing approach to today's direct mail. What I saw was a "holistic" integrated process. Japs-Olson is capable of sending more than four million pieces a day into the USPS mail stream. To do this efficiently, you need critical thinking to be applied at every stage of the process.

At Hunkeler Innovationdays 2015 which opened today in Lucerne, Switzerland, Pitney Bowes unveiled its new Epic Inserting System.

Many years of attending GRAPH EXPO have taught me that like the great markets of the Middle East and Asia, sometimes treasures are hidden away in the back of the halls. So I was pleasantly surprised when I stumbled across the Gunther Technologies stand.

Featuring innovations in service and technology that help improve and add capabilities, Bell and Howell's booth at GRAPH EXPO 14 will display a full complement of service, hardware and software solutions. In addition, solution experts will be on hand to answer questions and conduct demonstrations of the company's CartonWrap, Inveloper, Producer 22 and more.

Mailstream is a new fully automated direct mail finishing system from Rollem International that converts press sheets into finished direct mail products. The system allows the user to process multiple-up mail pieces and perform numerous functions in one pass.

Even though I didn’t get the opportunity to visit all of the finishing system exhibitors at GRAPH EXPO 2012, I did see enough to form some opinions on current trends and developments in the industry. While digital printing was once again the central focus of the show floor, finishing remains key in creating quality, exciting products across the board.

Direct mail isn't going away. Even your sub-par direct mail piece gets much more attention than the best Web ads. And well-targeted, intelligently personalized pieces do really well. Amazingly, a majority of direct mail still consists of your plain-vanilla envelope.

North American Communications, an international leader in direct mail marketing for over 30 years, is excited to share that the world’s fastest and most compact mail sorter, the NPI Crossfire, is now fully installed and being utilized within company walls.

The KR 545T can apply multiple tabs on the lead, side and, most impressively, the trail edge in one pass without turning the product.