Archive for October, 2006
Creative Imaging Inc. Expands Self-Publishing Book Business with Xerox iGen3 Digital Press
Creative Imaging Inc. is growing its customer base and self-publishing book business after it recently installed a Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX) iGen3® 110 Digital Production Press. At the current pace of growth, volume is expected to double by the end of the year.
“The iGen3 press helps us win new business by keeping us ahead of the competition,” said Bernard Bahn, president, Creative Imaging Inc. “With digital color printing, we are better able to adapt to meet growing customer demands for high-quality, personalized, short-run jobs produced in one to two days.”
For example, the 110 page-per-minute Xerox iGen3 press has provided Creative Imaging with more opportunities in the advertising and creative professional communities. “They can be a very demanding group of customers, but they think the quality of the iGen3 press is superior to the competition. The speed and reliability of the digital press is also able to meet their last-minute deadlines,” said Bahn.
According to Bahn, the image quality of jobs produced on the Xerox iGen3 press looks like offset printing. “The iGen3 press sets a new quality standard for on-demand color printing.” Bahn said that the digital color press also gives customers genuine press proofs so clients know exactly how the job will look when it’s printed. Read more
Wausau Paper Reports Net Earnings for Q3 of $7.5m
(BUSINESS WIRE)–Wausau Paper (NYSE:WPP) today reported net earnings for the third quarter of $7.5 million or $0.15 per share, compared with a net loss of $9.0 million, or $0.18 per share, the year before. Net sales increased 7 percent to $306.7 million while shipments increased 2 percent to 234,000 tons, both records for any quarter.
“Our third-quarter performance represented our strongest quarterly earnings in two years,” said Thomas J. Howatt, president and CEO. “Record revenues, strong timberland sales gains and continued progress with our strategic initiatives – attractive niche markets, product innovation, benchmark customer service and operational excellence – drove much of the improvement in profitability. Approximately 30 percent of revenues came from products developed in the last three years, exceeding our corporate goal of 25 percent, while paper mill productivity improved 2 percent.”
Adobe PDF Print Engine Powering New Generation of High-Impact Creative and Print Workflows
Graph Expo Sees Print Industry Leaders Deliver New PDF Based Systems as Adobe Announces Latest Version of Core Printing Technology
dobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that major OEM printing partners will be demonstrating the integration of Adobe® PDF Print Engine into printing systems at Adobe’s booth (booth No. 4229) and partner booths at Graph Expo, October 15 to 18 in Chicago. First introduced in April 2006, Adobe PDF Print Engine today powers products from the print industry’s biggest names, with Agfa Graphics, Dainippon Screen, FUJIFILM Electronic Imaging, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, Kodak Graphic Communications Group, and RIPit all showcasing products utilizing this key print technology.
“The Adobe PDF Print Engine is a major evolutionary step for the media industry,” said Bernd Zipper, technology and strategy consultant of ZIPCON Consulting Germany and author of Seybold Reports, USA. “The loose ends are now finally tied up so that manufacturers, as well as users of workflow systems, are given the opportunity to use the full scope of PDF. The option for the output side to more effectively use PDF layers in the future opens up totally new perspectives for users in the prepress industry.”
“The partner demonstrations at Graph Expo illustrate the growing industry support for the Adobe PDF Print Engine,” said Don Walker, senior director of Product Marketing and Business Development for Adobe. “As PDF Print Engine-based systems become available, users will benefit from the more consistent, flexible and profitable workflows made possible with native PDF and JDF technology.”
Adobe today also announced version 1.1 of Adobe PDF Print Engine software technology, a comprehensive design-to-print solution that leverages Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) and Job Definition Format (JDF) to deliver control, consistency and efficiency throughout the entire print workflow. The new version leverages common PDF technology across the Adobe Creative Suite and Acrobat® to allow creative and print professionals to efficiently create, collaborate on, and automate the output of Adobe PDF files. New features include support for Mac OS X, PDF 1.7, PDF layer-management and enhanced color management.