The Seybold Report

Manroland Sheetfed Trading Within Expectations

Langley Holdings plc has released its half-year results for the first half of calendar year 2012 and says manroland sheetfed is generating positive cash flows, standing on its own feet financially, and trading within expectations. more 

IMI Announces Keynote Speakers for Inkjet Technology Showcase 2012

IMI has announced who will deliver the keynote presentations at the upcoming Inkjet Technology Showcase: Dr. Kenneth D. Stack, President of Proximus will speak on financial aspects of industrial inkjet, Corey Reardon, CEO and President of AWA Alexander Watson Associates, will speak on inkjet business opportunities and Julie Shaffer, Vice President of Digital Technologies, at Printing Industries of America, will deliver a general analysis of factors influencing the future of printing. more

SGIA Releases Financial Outlook Report

SGIA has released its annual Financial Outlook and Business Growth Plans Report for the specialty imaging community. The report finds imagers rebounding from the deep recession in the midst of a still erratic economy, with two-thirds of graphics and sign companies and almost 60% of garment decoration companies purchasing new equipment in 2011. More than half of the garment decorator companies that purchased equipment expanded capacity in the expectation of continued business growth. The full report is available free to SGIA members and all survey participants. more 

Printing Industries of American Announces Integrated Print Forum Keynote Speakers

Printing Industries of America has announced Drew Davis, Chief Strategy Officer and Co-founder of Tippingpoint Labs, and John Lawson, CEO of 3rd Power Outlet, will be the keynote speakers at Integrated Printing Forum 2012 October 29-30 at the Printing Industries of America facility in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The forum focuses on integrating print with other media to enhance product offerings and build new revenue streams. more 

EFI Announces Fiery Certification Program

EFI has announced a certification training program for Fiery digital print servers, tools, and software. The company says the program teaches essential skills to increase production capacity and tests skill acquisition through a certification exam. more 

IMI Adds Nanotech Course to Inkjet Showcase

IMI has announced the addition of a new short course: Nanotechnology and Opportunities for Digital Printing to its Inkjet Technology Showcase 2012 in the Hyatt Rosemont in Chicago. The course, scheduled for September 7, will provide an overview of this field and its potential in the digital printing industry. more 

3D Systems Releases Cubify Invent for 3-D Printing

3D Systems Corp. has released Cubify Invent, a 3-D design tool developed specifically for 3-D printing and is offering a free trial of the software. more

Sessions College Announces Business Program for Design Students

Sessions College has introduced a new concentration in Design Business into its certificate program curricula. The college hopes the certificate will prepare students for careers and freelance work through identity building, portfolio design, online marketing, and self-promotion. more 

Zevrix Adds Interactive PDF Support to Output Factory

Zevrix Solutions has released Output Factory v 1.3.2 for Adobe InDesign on Mac OSX. The new version lets users automate document generation using InDesign’s export to interactive PDF feature. more 

Roland DGA Announces Rebate Program

Roland DGA Corp. is offering manufacturer rebates of up to $4,000 on selected wide-format inkjet printers and printer/cutters from the company’s popular VersaCAMM, SOLJET, and VersaUV series through the end of August. The company is offering a $1,000 factory rebate on the Roland VS-540 and VS-640 Printer/Cutter and rebates of $2,000 and $4,000 on the SolJet-XC-540 Printer/Cutter and VersaUV LEJ-640 Hybrid Flatbed Printer, respectively. more 

Positively Print Awards to Recognize Outstanding Print Advocate at Graph Expo 2012

Graph Expo has announced the 2012 Positively Print awards program to recognize printing industry companies and organizations that best promote the use of print in advertising and promotional campaigns. Entries may include tear sheets, TV commercials, videos, Web ads, and e-advertising produced between June 9, 2011 and the August 31, 2012 entry deadline. The awards will be presented following the Executive Outlook Conference on October 6, the eve of Graph Expo 2012, which is scheduled for October 7-10 at Chicago’s McCormick Place. more

Faversham House Announces Digital Print UK 2013 Details

Faversham House has released details of Digital Print UK, a new annual digital printing exhibition. The show will be split into four areas: production, applications and output, wide format, and digital labels. Live demonstrations will include production printing and wide format technologies. more 

Adobe Announces Technical Communication Suite 4

Adobe has announced Communication Suite 4, including new versions of FrameMaker, RoboHelp, Illustrator, Captivate, Presenter, and Acrobat X Pro. Communications Suite 4 is designed as a single-source authoring and multi-device publishing toolkit for technical writers, instructional designers, and others involved in publishing long documents and technical documentation. more

Printing Industries of America Announces 2012 InterTech Technology Award Recipients

Printing Industries of America has announced the 12 recipients of the 2012 InterTech Technology Awards. An independent panel of judges selected the award winners from a large number of technology nominations that demonstrated printing technology advances. more 

Markzware Releases QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign Plugin

MarkzWare has released Q2ID, a CS6 plugin for converting QuarkXPress files for use in InDesign on the Windows platform. more