Today In Print

FusionPro Links Version 2.5 and Intelligent Forms Add Powerful New Functionality to FusionPro Family

San Diego, CA, February 28, 2008 – Printable Technologies®, Inc., a leading provider of integrated marketing, web to print and personalized direct marketing solutions, today announced that it will introduce two new major enhancements regarding their FusionPro® Links and FusionPro® Web products at the On Demand Expo in Boston, MA, March 4 - 6, 2008.

FusionPro Links version 2.5 boasts a new campaign-centric workflow that helps marketers better reach their customers with individualized communications, while gathering enhanced response data to more easily understand and respond to their customers’ needs. FusionPro Links creates a customized online response experience using personalized URLs and microsites for variable data publishing (VDP) marketing campaigns.

The new Intelligent Forms feature in FusionPro Web allows users to further customize the types of data entry forms they create for web-based ordering of simple to complex collateral, as well as versioned and variable data. Key features include the ability to create matrices of dynamic data to pre-fill forms in areas such as pricing, customized choice lists and altered data entry based on the particular person logged in.

“Printable Technologies is eager to share these new technologies for intelligent marketing with the attendees at this year’s On Demand Expo,” said Coleman Kane, President and CEO, Printable Technologies. “By offering feature-rich personalized marketing technologies and intelligent collateral management systems, we are giving print service providers a wider range of offerings to support their business objectives.”

To learn more about these and other products from Printable Technologies, please be sure to visit Printable in Booth #349 at the On Demand Expo. For additional information on FusionPro Links version 2.5 and Intelligent Forms, contact Dustin Ritter or visit www.printable.com.

About Printable Technologies

Printable Technologies is a world leader providing Software as a Service including Cross-Media Variable Data Publishing (VDP), One-to-One Marketing Campaigns, and Web to Print solutions to corporate enterprises, creative agencies and the graphic arts industry.

The FusionPro VDP solution suite—consisting of desktop, online and server-based VDP applications—is used to manage dynamic cross-media campaigns consisting of variable text and images, perform high-speed data merge, and generate production-ready output data streams.

The complete marketing campaign execution and tracking solution from Printable Technologies—FusionPro Links—consists of a powerful data-driven direct mail solution with personalized URLs, and microsites.

The FusionPro Web marketing collateral management system delivers online ordering and e-commerce, mail list purchase and management, versioned and variable documents, job submission and file transfer.

Solutions from Printable Technologies integrate with ERP solutions, content management solutions, shop floor management applications and production workflows from Hewlett-Packard, Canon, Xerox, Kodak and more.

More than 1,700 corporate customers use solutions from Printable Technologies to serve over 400,000 end users; more than 100 of the Fortune 500 offer desktop access to Printable Technologies products. Clients can scale over time from the powerful VDP solution on the desktop to web-based and server-based solutions customized to meet the needs of organizations small and large.

For more information go to http://www.printable.com or call 800.220.1727.

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New SMART Papers i-Xpress™ for HP Indigo Paper Program features more than 200 papers in colors, finishes, textures and weights. All papers are RIT tested, certified for HP Indigo presses

Low order minimums, quick delivery

HAMILTON, Ohio, Monday, February 25, 2008 7:00 AM EST —SMART Papers has launched the i-Xpress™ for HP Indigo Paper Program. It offers HP Indigo press owners the widest selection of premium RIT-certified uncoated and coated papers including more than 200 colors, textures, finishes and weights.

HP Indigo press owners can now offer their customers hundreds of paper choices and meet their quick turn project demands. The i-Xpress™ for HP Indigo Paper Program includes products from the entire range of SMART Papers premium-branded coated and uncoated papers including Kromekote®, Knightkote® Matte, Carnival®, Synergy®, Genesis® and Passport®. This program brings HP Indigo press owners the largest single source of premium digital papers in designer colors, textures, finishes and weights.

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Source: http://www.gmc.net/page/en/news_events.php

February 21, 2008 – Boston, Massachusetts and Appenzell, Switzerland – At ON DEMAND, GMC Software Technology, the standard in personalized communication, will showcase the latest capabilities and enhancements to its PrintNetTM software suite. Demonstrations will be conducted in GMC Software Technology booth 759 highlighting the software suite’s ease of use, support of open standards, Web tools and integration; advanced job flow and customization as well as personalization capabilities.

Graphics arts and communications professionals will get a first-hand look at how PrintNet can accelerate application development, improve document effectiveness and maximize productivity for a variety of marketing, transaction, transpromo, on demand and electronic communications applications. These include many key personalized communications applications that are in high demand today:
• Transpromo 401K transactional statements with embedded marketing messages
• Promotional marketing flyers and postcards
• Interactive, web-based communications
• Invoices using color IPDS print streams
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New Models Designed as Ease-of-Entry Platform for Graphic Display Printers

FOSTER CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Feb. 19, 2008–EFI (Nasdaq:EFII), the world leader in customer-focused digital printing innovation, today announced the availability of two new models in the award-winning QS superwide format printer family. The addition of 4- and 6-color configurations to the industry leading QS2000 and QS3200 family of printers offers ease-of-entry options for sign printers and graphic display manufacturers who wish to add digital UV production to their product mix.

“On the heels of installing our 300th QS-series printer,” said Chuck Dourlet, vice president of marketing EFI VUTEk, “we are expanding options for our customers even more. By introducing ease-of-entry options for the QS family, we are offering greater flexibility to the graphic communications market enabling more service providers to migrate to digital production using a proven UV platform.”

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The University of Surrey has become the first higher education establishment in the UK to benefit from the expertise of Kodak’s GCG group as it expands into the education market.

The university has recently installed a Kodak NexPress 2100 digital production colour press for use in its Marketing and Communications department, as it brings in-house the production of its personalised prospectuses and direct mailings, which has been one of the major reasons for its success with student enquiries and enrolment numbers.

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Source: graphicrepro.co.za

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John and I haven’t had much time to focus on Today in Print Podcast.  So we are putting the Podcast on hiatus for the time being.

Instead, we will be shifting our focus on covering news in printing via posts here and try to pull out some of the more interesting topics / discussions on our two forums sites, Digital Print Forums and Nexpress Forums and bring them to the front page.

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I highly recommend Digital Print Forums for user to user discussions in all topics related to digital printing.  Check out Digital Print Forums now to find answers to your questions, read the topics on digital print and much more.

Also, for those that have Nexpress Digital Presses, check out Nexpress Forums for in depth topics related to Nexpress from operators to owners, the users are great at solving problems.

I am pleased to announce that we now host both these sites under Winter12.com which is our hosting operation for Today in Print as well.  We have been running Digital Print Forums now for several years and as of yesteday we now  host Nexpress Forums.

So head over to either and sign up and post your questions or answer any of the topics others have posted.  Both are free and easy to use.

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HP today announced a significant new enhancement in HP Indigo label and packaging production solutions - a series of four dedicated digital front-end (DFE) label and packaging production printing tools - created in collaboration with EskoArtwork. These new solutions give HP Indigo customers enhanced abilities to confidently pursue even more possibilities, create a competitive advantage, and drive profits by increasing shop floor productivity and elevating the prepress capabilities for digital label and packaging production.

“Today’s announcement represents the next important step in the Print 2.0 initiative for HP Indigo, and shows how we are further extending the digital platform in label and packaging production,” said Alon Bar-Shany, vice president and general manager, Indigo division, HP. “By working with a respected, best-in-class provider like EskoArtwork, we continue to provide customers with quality- and productivity-enhancing solutions that make labels and packaging two of the fastest-growing segments in digital printing.”

Read more at  Packaging Essentials

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— Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX) is increasing its portfolio of wide-format color printers with two new offerings. The new systems lead print providers to bigger profits by allowing them to produce large format applications such as full-color banners, presentation graphics and vehicle wraps. The Xerox 8265/8290 and 8365/8390 Color Wide Format Printers, designed for commercial printers and in-plant operations, are available in 65- and 90-inch models. The new printers open up an entirely new set of high-value print jobs for customers looking to complement their current capabilities or enter the expanding graphic communications color wide-format market.

The 8265/8290 printer is compatible with a wide range of media types and produces vibrant graphics on indoor and outdoor point-of-purchase displays, banners, life-size photos and floor graphics. The printers use a combination of inkjet technology and environmentally-friendly eco-solvent inks, which means no ventilation or purification systems are required during production and prints can last up to three years without lamination. The 8265/8290 print at resolutions that range from 360 to 1,440 dpi at typical-quality production speeds from 162 to 215 square feet per hour.

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ROCHESTER, N.Y., Feb. 12—The photo on the cover of the February issue of Graphic Arts Monthly (GAM) looks so real, you want to reach out and touch it. When you do, it just might surprise you. The editors of GAM, one of the graphic communications industry’s leading trade publications, selected the KODAK NEXPRESS S3000 Digital Production Color Press to print the magazine’s February 2008 cover, which includes extensive coverage of the major digital printing trade show, AIIM/On Demand.

The GAM issue features a striking photograph of an apricot on the cover, requiring a shade of orange that can be difficult for digital presses to reproduce. The NEXPRESS S3000 Press has a larger color gamut than traditional offset-based SWOP specifications, so this vibrant orange color was easily and accurately printed. A custom URL, www.graphics.kodak.com/gam, was set up especially for GAM readers.

Kodak used the five-color configuration and the fifth imaging unit for the 70,000 GAM print run, making it possible to use Kodak’s intelligent coating solution, which adds a protective coating of KODAK NEXPRESS Clear Dry Ink. This is particularly important for a magazine in wide distribution, as the coating helps reduce damage caused by finishing and bulk mailing equipment. To enhance the photo, Kodak used the intelligent coating process to create a “fuzz” effect on the apricot, adding extra depth that readers can feel.

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