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For many years at Blanchard Valley Health System (BVHS), associates had free reign to print as many brochures, booklets, flyers and forms as they saw fit, with very little monitoring of costs. When materials became outdated, thousands of copies were discarded and more were ordered.

The new flash-fusing, toner-based Océ VarioStream 7170 and 7110 specialty printing systems, from Canon U.S.A., are entry-level, monochrome continuous-feed solutions that are aimed at corporate and commercial environments with low- to mid-range volumes of transaction, direct mail, product instruction collateral and applications requiring special media.

Dozens of university and government in-plants from the Mid-Atlantic region met at the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) in Washington, D.C., in April for the eighth annual Digital Printing in Government and Higher Education Forum. The event, organized by Interquest, a market and technology research and consulting firm, featured several panels of in-plant managers, hailing from the United Nations, the World Bank, GPO, the University of Virginia, Fairfax County Government, Navy Federal Credit Union and others.

Adding a high-speed, production inkjet press is not a "build it and they will come" endeavor. Before moving forward, you'll need a formal strategy in place that anticipates more than simply transferring jobs from existing offset or toner-based presses.

Continuous-feed production inkjet is an exciting, evolving market. Average annual growth since 2010 has been at 93 percent, according to IT Strategies; in 2013 alone, 146 billion pages were printed globally with continuous-feed inkjet. Market-Intell estimates that this represents 350,000 tons of paper in North America in 2013.

More than 60 clients and prospects from 10 countries converged on the Fairmont Hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia, to attend a recent Canon VIP Customer Event, which featured a live demonstration of the new wide-format Océ Arizona 6100 series at Océ's regional office in suburban Richmond, British Columbia. The series includes the six-color Océ Arizona 6160 XTS and the seven-color 6170 XTS.

Canon launched several color and monochrome printers this week in conjunction with its Canon for Business 2014 event, which took place at the Canon Customer Experience Center, in Poing, Germany. Hundreds of customers, analysts and journalists (including IPG) attended the event.

Canon launched several color and monochrome printers this week in conjunction with its Canon for Business 2014 event, which took place at the Canon Customer Experience Center in Poing, Germany. Hundreds of customers, analysts and journalists attended the event, about a half hour from Munich.

Canon U.S.A. has introduced the new Océ Arizona 6100 Series—comprised of the six-color Océ Arizona 6160 XTS and the seven-color Océ Arizona 6170 XTS wide-format flatbed printers. The new series is designed for sign and display print service providers who produce approximately 325,000 square feet of printed rigid media per year.

As one of the world’s largest in-plants, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ 350-employee Printing Division has some impressive equipment in its Salt Lake City facility. The sound of its Timson and manroland web presses fills the air on a typical day as they crank out long-run jobs for distribution around the world.

Ask Chris Barclay how he became interested in the printing industry, and he points back to 1976, his freshman year of high school. He remembers being hooked after taking his first graphic arts class.

During the Xploration 14 Customer Communications Conference last month, Canon Solutions America received awards in three categories, including Application of the Year, Technology of the Year and Lifetime Achievement. Mal Baboyian, Canon Solutions America's executive vice president, took home the prestigious Brian Platte Lifetime Achievement Award.

Canon U.S.A. has expanded its service facilities with the opening of a new service and support center in Itasca, IL, located just outside of Chicago. The facility will provide comprehensive product repair and maintenance of Canon's professional products to Cinema, Platinum, and Gold level members of Canon's Professional Services (CPS) program, and owners of Canon professional broadcast lenses.

Canon U.S.A. has expanded its service facilities with the opening of a new service and support center in Itasca, IL, located just outside of Chicago. The facility will provide comprehensive product repair and maintenance of Canon's professional products to Cinema, Platinum, and Gold level members of Canon's Professional Services (CPS) program, and owners of Canon professional broadcast lenses.

Two key executive leadership appointments have been made at Canon U.S.A. Joe Adachi is the company's new chairman and CEO; and Yuichi Ishizuka has been named president and COO.

About five years ago, the San Joaquin Delta College Publication Center, in Stockton, Calif., retired its offset presses and moved to an all-digital production platform. This consisted of color and monochrome digital devices operated by the in-plant's staff as well as a monochrome digital press available for walk-up traffic.

Middle Tennessee State University, in Murfreesboro, now has a new retail printing center on the first floor of its Student Union. Called BLUE print Solutions, the operation held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday.

Establishing consistency across its lineup, Canon has introduced two new models of its imageRUNNER ADVANCE that now feature faster scanning speeds with Single Pass Duplex scanning technology.

When will an inkjet production press make its way into your in-plant? The technology is advancing steadily, and a handful of in-plants have already invested in it, but for most managers, inkjet means wide-format, not high volumes and high speeds.

The snowstorm that shut down the University of West Georgia (UWG) and much of nearby Atlanta in January was nothing compared to the gale that nearly blew away UWG's in-plant a few years ago. Back in 2009, UWG administration floated a plan to shutter the school's Department of Publications and Printing and reallocate funding. The idea was to begin contracting for printing services with outside vendors.