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ON DEMAND EXPO 2011 Home To Innovation, Dedicated Application Pavilions, and Industry Networking

Newest Versions of Océ PRISMA Software Bring More Flexibility and Productivity to Graphic Arts and Transactional Printing

GMC Software Technology Unveils GMC Inspire the Enterprise Solution for Continuous Customer Engagement

Océ Business Services Highlights Records Management, Document Imaging and Managed Print Services Solutions at AIIM Conference

Pitney Bowes to Showcase Solutions for Creating More Valuable Customer Communications at On Demand Conference and Expo 2011

RISO Demonstrates New Advanced Full-color Production Printing Capabilities at On Demand Booth 2643

InfoTrends: InfoBriefing During ON DEMAND

XMPie Takes Tracking and Analytics of Personalized Marketing Campaigns to a New Level

Tweak.com Introduces Partner Printer Strategy at On Demand Expo

Kern Exhibits at ON DEMAND Expo

New Features for PressWise Print Workflow Service To Be Unveiled At OnDemand

ECRM to Showcase Affordable Digital Printing Solution at ON DEMAND 2011

Publishing Xchange Conference Announces Speaker Lineup of The Industry's Finest

EFI Solutions on Display at ON DEMAND and ITEX

Questex to Announce 2011 Business Transformation Award Winner at Publishing Xchange Conference

Questex Announces Educational Tracks Lineup for Publishing Xchange Conference

Publishing Xchange Names Charlie Corr Wednesday Keynote Speaker

Questex To Recognize Transforming Businesses with Annual Award

ON DEMAND EXPO 2011 Home To Innovation, Dedicated Application Pavilions, and Industry Networking

-- Show Opens March 22nd in DC --

NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS – March 15, 2011 – Questex Media, producers of the On Demand 2011 Exposition today released an overview of the many prominent highlights of their upcoming trade show (March 22-24 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC). This year’s event targets digital service providers (commercial and in-plant printers, publishers, marketing communication content providers, graphic designers and ad agencies) by showcasing new technologies, proven business strategies, and potential new revenue streams. More than any other year, the show is dedicated to broadening the attendee’s scope and understanding in an evolving marketplace. For more information, go to www.ondemandexpo.

Keynotes & General Sessions
The show will kick off with InfoTrend’s Jim Hamilton on Tuesday (March 22nd at 8:30 am) who will present What's New at ON DEMAND, helping attendees to take full advantage of the show’s many offerings. The show will also feature two dynamic keynote speakers:

• Opening Day Keynote (Tuesday, March 22nd at 9:00 am): Rob Covey, SVP Content Development & Design, National Geographic Digital Media will present “Transforming a Publishing Icon”;
• Day 2 Keynote (Wednesday, March 23rd at 9:00 am): Charlie Corr, Vice President, Corporate Strategy, Mimeo.com will present “The New Era of Printing & Publishing On Demand”.

Exhibit Floor Pavilions
This year’s exhibit floor will showcase three different dedicated pavilions:

• Mailing & Fulfillment Pavilion: Offers attendees insight into the latest equipment and software in production mode for incorporating mailing and fulfillment services, and is supported by nearly 20 participants.
• Wide-Format Pavilion: New to the exhibit floor in 2011, the wide-format pavilion will highlight technologies and solutions for wide-format applications. The pavilion will especially appeal to the many digital service providers investigating expanded revenue streams that will easily meld with their established production workflows.
• Publishing & Marketing Pavilion: Also new in 2011, digital service providers will be introduced to the innovative tools, technologies, and available solutions that are transforming the publishing and marketing landscape. With marketing clients demanding an increasingly broader reach via social and wireless networks, this pavilion will exhibit the many innovations available today.

Networking Events
For many, networking forums are the most effective educational outlets. This year’s show includes two such events where professionals from every facet of the industry will be encouraged to mingle and share ideas. Attendees will be encouraged to network at the:

• Welcome Reception: Open to all badge holders, this reception will close the first day’s events (Tuesday, March 22nd from 5:00 pm-6:30 pm) by offering complimentary beverages and hors d' oeuvres. It will be located on the 3rd Floor Foyer, in ballrooms B & C;
• Publish or Perish Game Show: At the close of the 2nd day (Wednesday, March 23rd at 5:00 pm), attendees can attend the industry's longest-running game show, hosted by industry veteran Chuck Weger. Two teams of contestants will be chosen from the audience with a chance to compete for glory and honor.

About Questex Media Group
Questex Media Group LLC is a global, diversified business-to-business integrated media and information provider, headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts. Questex serves several industries including technology, telecommunications, beauty, spa, travel, hospitality, leisure, home entertainment, landscape design, building services, and natural resources through a range of well-established, market-leading publications, events, interactive media, research, information and integrated marketing services.

The company's media properties include over 100 print and digital media publications, 45 conferences, tradeshows and events, as well as a range of research, data and information products. The company's businesses are managed through operating companies including Questex Media Group; InfoTrends, Inc., Imaging Networks, and; McLean Events International, Ltd, a world-leading producer of appointment-based events. The company's combined operations include more than 400 employees in offices throughout North America, South America, Asia and Europe. For more information, visit www.questex.com.

For more information about the On Demand Exposition go to www.ondemandexpo.com.

Newest Versions of Océ PRISMA Software Bring More Flexibility and Productivity to Graphic Arts and Transactional Printing

Expands functionality in automated book production, electronic forms, document preparation, mixed printing environments and more

Washington, DC – March 22, 2011 – Océ, an international leader in digital document management and delivery, today announced a new release of Océ PRISMAproductionâ software (Version 4.04) that enables greater automation in book production, advanced use of electronic forms for high-volume applications, JDF and JMF compliance, and ADF-to-PDF conversion for mainframe documents. The new functions are available as options to Océ PRISMAproduction software.

In addition, with the release of Océ PRISMAprepare Version 5.2, this popular make-ready software continues to evolve in response to customer application needs including the imperative to reduce production costs and increase productivity.

“Software continues to be a differentiator in terms of flexibility and productivity. We see companies becoming more proactive with software to pursue larger opportunities and initiatives, such as automating workflow, increasing efficiency and offering new services. With the expanded capabilities of the Océ PRISMA portfolio, Océ can help customers move ahead with a ‘strategy-based’ software approach,” said Alex Sumarta, Director of InfoTrends' Production Workflow Solutions and Document Outsourcing Consulting Services.

Benefits for Transaction Printing Environments
“Now Océ PRISMAproduction workflow software brings customers more automation, integration and functionality, resulting in business-impacting benefits in terms of greater flexibility and control. In transactional and commercial markets, this flexibility translates into more business opportunities, while greater control results in tighter productivity. Automation drives cost savings from requiring less work to get the same results and more accurate processes,” said Eric DeGoeijen, Vice President, Product Marketing, Océ North America, Production Printing Systems.

Several of the enhancements to Océ PRISMAproduction software bring specific benefits to transactional environments:

AFP-to-PDF Conversion
As the transaction market deals with the legacy of mainframe applications, transactional printers need better ways to handle, store and reprint mainframe-generated AFP documents. Retrieving a complete AFP document from the mainframe involves resource managers and other applications. The new AFP-to-PDF component converts a mainframe AFP file to a fully composed, highly portable, more compact PDF file that can be easily stored on a local network and retrieved at any time. It streamlines day-to-day operations by using built-in capabilities of Océ PRISMAproduction server instead of adding another layer of third-party software. Users can generate PDF files from AFP data not only for print and reprint purposes, but also for electronic document delivery.

Electronic Forms and Preprinted Forms Replacement
The need to change out paper for every print job adds hours to production schedules and creates opportunities for mistakes. The newest version of Océ PRISMAproduction software helps eliminate inventories of preprinted forms and supports print-on-demand business models. Multiple forms can be stored electronically on the Océ PRISMAproduction platform, populated dynamically with data, and printed as needed on Océ JetStreamâ or Océ ColorStreamâ Flex systems using white paper, instead of preprinted stock. Users gain the flexibility to change from form to form on the fly as needed. Multiple jobs using multiple forms can be run on a single roll of paper, providing greater flexibility and continual uptime, again saving time and money. Reduced operator intervention saves hours per day in changeover time. Users also benefit from cost savings through reduction of stored and obsolete inventory, warehouse space, and paper waste.

Executive Workflow Module
High-octane transaction environments thrive on automation to increase productivity, contain costs and avoid errors. Also, when print and business managers have more information about processes and performance, they can make better operational decisions. Océ PRISMAproduction and the Executive Workflow module integrate different phases of print production for more automated communications, connectivity and richer business feedback. Users gain more connectivity to other departments, systems and interfaces, such as order entry, accounting, logistics, inventory, shipping and order processing, Users can tap into a broader range of information about their production workflow and better manage the business based on the additional data. In addition to data stream communication, Océ PRISMAproduction workflow can now use inbound and outbound commands across the connected points. Customers gain centralized control over more stages of their printing workflow and related business processes. Complex workflows, including connectivity to external software, can be defined and managed with the user interface. Examples of how this can be used are determining accurate hourly labor rates, creating cost-per-page models, or calculating consumables costs using data from multiple databases. The new module lets users build automated processes for incoming data and also validate production integration from beginning to end to eliminate errors in advance of printing. This saves time, money, and labor, and promotes smoother workflow across the business.

Benefits for Commercial Graphic Arts Environments
Customers in the Graphic Arts market find advantages in the new electronic forms component and Executive Workflow. These users also benefit from the Océ Professional Book Solution and the new JDF/JMF component.

Automated Book Production
Book publishers want to ensure jobs start and finish on time with minimal waste and down time. The Professional Book Solution automates book production through a highly efficient batch, barcode and scanning process. Users can streamline their workflow from order entry through shipping and delivery using JDF/JMF commands, 2D barcodes, and production management tools. This automation helps reduce production costs while maximizing revenue. With automated book publishing, print providers of all sizes and capabilities are better prepared to enter the digital book printing arena or expand on an existing business. The Océ solution delivers the advantages of automation to run lengths as small as one, opening the door for customers to pursue profitable, on -demand business opportunities at a cost-effective level.

Comprehensive JDF / JMF Workflow Communication
Graphic Arts operations depend on the Job Definition Format (JDF) and the Job Messaging Format (JMF) to maintain job integrity and support automation for end-to-end production workflow. New, enhanced JDF/JMF functionality within Océ PRISMAproduction allows greater connectivity with front-end order entry systems and a variety of print engines, both Océ and non-Océ, and post-processing devices for seamless end-to-end job ticketing. This JDF/JMF integration allows centralized production management, resulting in greater flexibility and efficient automation between print processes and other points in the production workflow. IT, MIS and other users can monitor job status and completion, pages printed, errors, reports, performance, and other information that affects order processing. This business knowledge helps them respond more agilely and effectively, resulting in better job control, cost savings and time management.

New Océ PRISMAprepare Version Drives Productivity
In addition to new Océ PRISMAproduction capabilities, Graphic Arts customers benefit from the latest release of Océ PRISMAprepareä software.

One of the most important features of Océ PRISMAprepare Version 5.2 software is the ability to drive the Canon imagePRESS C7010 VPS system with the Océ PRISMAsync controller. This promotes a common front-end interface for production efficiency for Canon, Océ and non-Océ devices, and helps customers unify workflow across monochrome and color devices. Document preparation is enhanced through a new automation tool. Users can record preparation steps in a template, which can easily be recalled for other documents. In addition, pre-recorded templates can be called directly from the command line interface without user interaction, significantly reducing costly, non-billable preparation time. Output flexibility has been expanded with cut-and-stack impositioning, which is often needed for books. Users can also add logos and stamps for manuals, sensitive documents and drafts.

Océ PRISMAprepare v5.2 software is available for immediate implementation in the United States and can be viewed at On Demand driving the Canon imagePRESS C7010 VPS and Océ VarioPrint 6320 Ultra systems. Customer implementations of Océ PRISMAproduction Version 4.04 workflow software functionality start in April 2011. # # #

Océ and Canon: Stronger together
In 2010 Océ joined the Canon Group of companies with headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, to create the global leader in the printing industry. Canon develops, manufactures and markets a growing line-up of copying machines, printers, cameras, optical and other products that meet a diverse range of customer needs. Canon employs more than 170,000 people worldwide. Global revenues in 2010 were more than $45 billion. For more information visit www.canon.com.

About Océ
Océ is one of the leading providers of document management and printing for professionals. The Océ offering includes office printing and copying systems, high speed digital production printers and wide format printing systems for both technical documentation and color display graphics. Océ is also a foremost supplier of document management outsourcing. Many of the Fortune Global 500 companies and leading commercial printers are Océ customers. The company was founded in 1877. With headquarters in Venlo, The Netherlands, Océ is active in over 100 countries and employs more than 20,000 people worldwide. Total revenues in fiscal 2010 amounted to approximately €2.7 billion. Océ is listed on Euronext in Amsterdam. For more information visit www.oce.com.

Océ North America is headquartered in Trumbull, CT, with additional business units in Chicago, IL and Boca Raton, FL. North America represents over 37% of Océ’s worldwide revenues, and employment is over 9,000. For more information about Océ North America, visit www.oceusa.com. Outside the U.S., consult global.oce.com.

About Canon U.S.A., Inc.
Canon U.S.A., Inc., is a leading provider of consumer, business-to-business, and industrial digital imaging solutions. Its parent company, Canon Inc. (NYSE:CAJ), a top patent holder of technology, ranked fourth overall in the U.S. in 2010†, with global revenues of more than US $45 billion and is listed as number six in the computer industry on Fortune Magazine's World’s Most Admired Companies 2010 list. Canon U.S.A. is committed to the highest levels of customer satisfaction and loyalty, providing 100 percent U.S.-based consumer service and support for all of the products it distributes. At Canon, we care because caring is essential to living together in harmony. Founded upon a corporate philosophy of Kyosei – "all people, regardless of race, religion or culture, harmoniously living and working together into the future" – Canon U.S.A. supports a number of social, youth, educational and other programs, including environmental and recycling initiatives. Additional information about these programs can be found at www.usa.canon.com/kyosei. To keep apprised of the latest news from Canon U.S.A., sign up for the Company's RSS news feed by visiting www.usa.canon.com/rss.

GMC Software Technology Unveils GMC Inspire the Enterprise Solution for Continuous Customer Engagement

March 22, 2011–Boston, Massachusetts and Appenzell, Switzerland-- GMC Software Technology, the standard in customer communications, today announced the introduction of GMC Inspire™, an end-to-end Customer Communications Management (CCM) platform. Enabling new ways to engage customers and target markets across digital and print channels, the solution will help businesses increase retention, accelerate acquisition and drive operational efficiency. GMC Inspire will be unveiled for the first time at On Demand, March 22-24, 2011 at the Walter E. Convention Center, booth number 2125.

GMC Inspire is a single platform that allows businesses to automate and control the entire communication cycle from capturing personal buying motivators to leveraging customer insight to the production of multichannel communications and the management of customer responses. Enabling integration of communications across business units, GMC Inspire delivers consistent, compliant, and relevant communications across multiple channels.

“With the growth of online and mobile technologies, customers have more choice, higher expectations and are therefore harder to engage”, said Dr. René Müller, CEO of GMC Software Technology. “Today, the most effective way to engage your customers is to deliver relevant, multichannel communications, that are in context with the customers’ individual situation and expectations. Addressing these needs, GMC Inspire enables businesses to increase engagement every time they interact with their customers across any channel, building lifetime, profitable customer relationships”.

GMC Inspire is an advanced customer communications platform that can be deployed in the cloud and tailored for specific business needs. The solution is designed to engage prospects and customers at different stages of the customer journey - from awareness to acquisition to building value and loyalty.

Core capabilities of GMC Inspire
Customer insight: GMC Inspire provides advanced customer analytics that bring together data silos across the business for a single view of each customer. In addition the solution enables businesses to capture and leverage personal buying motivators, customer preferences and social profiles.

Customer communications: The solution enables business user control, dynamic design principles and content management capabilities. Businesses can create high volume, structured communications as well as interactive and on-demand communications.

Multi-channel production: Communications can be optimized for most delivery channels including mobile and web presentment, SMS, email, print, fax, RSS as well as other emerging channels

Response management: The solution enables businesses to capture, track and manage customer responses across all channels. Enterprise feedback management automatically updates business systems and triggers follow-on communications.

Process management and automation: The solution controls and automates the end-to-end communication process enabling 24/7 or lights-out production and real-time customer communications management.

For more information on GMC Inspire, including the full solution brochure and video, go to www.inspire.gmc.net. In addition, you can visit GMC Software Technology at On Demand, booth number 2125.

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GMC Software Technology
GMC Software Technology delivers the most effective solutions and unrivalled experience in the field of Customer Communications Management (CCM). As the acknowledged benchmark in the industry, GMC enables enterprises to increase engagement at every customer touchpoint, driving loyalty, customer acquisition and operational efficiency. The company’s CCM platform, GMC Inspire, is designed to empower business users to continuously engage customers with relevant communications, at the right time, across digital and print channels. As the only CCM platform built on worldwide ISO 9001:2008 certification and CMMI development methodology, GMC Inspire simplifies the most complex communications and processes.

GMC Software Technology serves thousands of clients worldwide across the banking, insurance, retail, business services, telco/utilities and healthcare industry. Having received numerous awards in the field Customer Communications Management, the company is recognized as an industry leader for innovation.

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Océ Business Services Highlights Records Management, Document Imaging and Managed Print Services Solutions at AIIM Conference

Visit Océ Business Services at AIIM International Conference Booth #1235

Washington, DC (March 21, 2011) – Océ Business Services, a leader in document process management services and technology, will highlight its records management, document imaging and managed print services solutions at the AIIM (Association for Information and Image Management) International Exposition and Conference.

At this year's conference, taking place in March 21 – 24 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, experts from Océ will be on hand to help attendees understand how to better leverage document process management best practices to reduce costs and streamline efficiency in order to succeed in today's competitive business environment.

A joint presentation, "DIRECTV: A Records Management Case Study," will take place on Tuesday, March 22 from 3:30 to 4:10 p.m. in room 145B. Presenters include Cheryl Young, senior records and information solutions architect, Océ Business Services, and Gloria Mickelson, document control manager, DIRECTV. The session will spotlight how DIRECTV obtained executive support and launched an enterprise-wide records management program. Highlights include:

• Overcoming challenges such as the lack of a common classification system
• Implementing new initiatives, which included developing an intranet with procedures, forms and training to support the Office of Records Management as well as creating a new records retention schedule

Océ will also showcase Océ MPS, the company's managed print services offering that provides enterprises with optimized utilization of document output equipment, better control of document-related expenses and improved operating efficiency. The net impact is a marked reduction in the total cost of office print/copy, which is estimated at three percent of revenue according to such industry analysts as Gartner, IDC and InfoTrends.

"Many document management professionals are looking for untapped opportunities to contain costs and improve efficiency," notes Elizabeth Halaki, chief marketing officer for Océ Business Services. "Our experts are available to help information management executives gain insight into best practices that span document imaging, print/copy and records management, and other critical document management processes. These insights will enable executives to implement solutions that can give their company the competitive edge it needs to thrive in the days ahead."

About Océ
Océ is one of the leading providers of document management and printing for professionals. The Océ offering includes office printing and copying systems, high speed digital production printers and wide format printing systems for both technical documentation and color display graphics. Océ is also a foremost supplier of document management outsourcing. Many of the Fortune Global 500 companies and leading commercial printers are Océ customers. The company was founded in 1877. With headquarters in Venlo, The Netherlands, Océ is active in over 100 countries and employs more than 20,000 people worldwide. Total revenues in fiscal 2010 amounted to approximately €2.7 billion. Océ is listed on Euronext in Amsterdam. For more information visit www.océ.com.

Océ Business Services provides high quality managed services and technology to manage, monitor and optimize document intensive processes so companies can improve operating efficiency and performance. Océ Business Services solutions span the document lifecycle and include records management, imaging, managed print services, mail and eDiscovery. Proprietary methodologies apply Six Sigma®. North American headquarters are in New York City and employment is about 5,000. Learn more at www.obs-innovation.com or follow us on Twitter.

Océ and Canon: Stronger together
In 2010 Océ joined the Canon Group of companies with headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, to create the global leader in the printing industry. Canon develops, manufactures and markets a growing line-up of copying machines, printers, cameras, optical and other products that meet a diverse range of customer needs. Canon employs more than 170,000 people worldwide. Global revenues in 2010 were more than $45 billion. For more information visit www.canon.com.

About Canon U.S.A., Inc.
Canon U.S.A., Inc., is a leading provider of consumer, business-to-business, and industrial digital imaging solutions. Its parent company, Canon Inc. (NYSE:CAJ), a top patent holder of technology, ranked fourth overall in the U.S. in 2010†, with global revenues of more than US $45 billion and is listed as number six in the computer industry on Fortune Magazine's World's Most Admired Companies 2010 list. Canon U.S.A. is committed to the highest levels of customer satisfaction and loyalty, providing 100 percent U.S.-based consumer service and support for all of the products it distributes. At Canon, we care because caring is essential to living together in harmony. Founded upon a corporate philosophy of Kyosei – "all people, regardless of race, religion or culture, harmoniously living and working together into the future" – Canon U.S.A. supports a number of social, youth, educational and other programs, including environmental and recycling initiatives. Additional information about these programs can be found at usa.canon.com/kyosei. To keep apprised of the latest news from Canon U.S.A., sign up for the Company's RSS news feed by visiting usa.canon.com/rss.

Pitney Bowes to Showcase Solutions for Creating More Valuable Customer Communications at On Demand Conference and Expo 2011

March 10, 2011 - Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE: PBI) today announced that it will showcase solutions to create more valuable customer communications at the On Demand Exhibition and Conference 2011. The event will take place on March 22-24, at Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC. Attendees will find the latest Pitney Bowes innovations on display at booth #2807.

For high-volume mailers and printers, Pitney Bowes will demonstrate ways to create more efficient, profitable and valuable customer communications with a White Paper Factory solution. Through a unique, end-to-end combination of Production Intelligence output management software, printing and mail finishing capabilities, Pitney Bowes can help streamline workflow and transform documents to create more relevant and effective communications.

Demonstrations will include:

• P/I Output Manager for print stream transformation, centralized resource management and output to any printer.
• P/I Output Enhancement and P/I Wizard simplifies job preparation for a variety of complex applications, from digital color to TransPromo to Intelligent Mail barcode.
• Pitney Bowes’s growing family of IntelliJet Printing Systems, powered by Production Intelligence software, can help mailers produce brilliant full-color transactional statements as they lower operational costs.
• P/I Enterprise Manager centralizes the management of all production jobs, from multiple hosts or sites, for optimal productivity and asset utilization.
• DFWorks provides an integrated, consistent way to monitor, automate and measure workflow, resource, job and mailpiece status throughout print and mail operations.

For printers and mailers in the mid-range market, Pitney Bowes will feature:

• The Connect+ 2000 system, part of the Connect+ Customer Communications Series, enables mailers to print high-resolution graphics and messages in color on the outside of the envelope turning generic envelopes into promotional messages on demand. With high-speed connectivity, the Connect+ Series provides users with access to exclusive cost content to improve mail center efficiencies.
• RISO’s ComColor Series features full-color inkjet printers that complement Pitney Bowes’s suite of mail management software and work with a broad array of the company’s products for a complete “print-to-mail” solution in a cut-sheet environment. The ComColor series helps organizations add value to existing documents by managing the transition from printing in black and white to color.
• PlanetPress and PB FIRST software offer integrated print-to-mail solutions for the cut-sheet office environment to provide document composition, variable data printing, and postal savings, with a Print-to-Mail workflow that includes e-mail, fax, and other electronic delivery options. Users can add specific variable data, including conditional text, graphs and images to documents. The addition of color, personalization and promotional messages to customer documents can dramatically enhance documents.
• The Pitney Bowes DP40S color printer is equipped with high definition color laser technology with 1200 dpi and can print up to 36 color pages per minute or 60 envelopes (#10) per minute with sharp detail and rich color depth. The DP40S prints on a wide range of media including post cards, envelopes and newsletters, making it ideal for promotional communications.

For additional information, please visit www.pb.com.

About Pitney Bowes:
Delivering more than 90 years of innovation, Pitney Bowes provides software, hardware and services that integrate physical and digital communications channels. Long known for making its customers more productive, Pitney Bowes is increasingly helping other companies grow their business through advanced customer communications management. Pitney Bowes is a $5.4 billion company and employs more than 30,000 worldwide. Pitney Bowes: Every connection is a new opportunity. www.pb.com

RISO Demonstrates New Advanced Full-color Production Printing Capabilities at On Demand Booth 2643

DANVERS, MA, March 16, 2011 — RISO, Inc. will demonstrate a new dynamic tray-pull capability, single-pass transpromo MICR printing, and full-color envelope printing on RISO ComColor high-speed inkjet printers at Booth 2643 during the 2011 On Demand Exposition and Conference at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC, March 22-24.

“We recognize that commercial and corporate production print shops often use a mixture of pre-printed, specialty, and plain paper stocks to produce transaction, transpromo, direct mail, and more,” said Kevin Hunter, executive director of strategic marketing for RISO, Inc. “For customers with demanding brand management and complex document assembly requirements, our new dynamic tray capability gives RISO ComColor customers what only RISO can deliver: the ability to print full-color data, images, and more on multiple paper stocks at speeds up to 150 PPM. With full-color running costs as low as two cents per page and a realistic duty cycle of 500,000 images per month, RISO ComColor high-speed, full-color inkjet printers are fast, affordable, and dependable.”

At On Demand, RISO will demonstrate:

• New ComColor dynamic tray pull functionality that automatically pulls and prints up to four different paper stocks on-the-fly for complex transaction, transpromo, and direct marketing applications. This new advanced capability enables corporate in-plant, direct mail, and service bureau print-and-mail operations to migrate existing multi-stock applications easily and add value to new applications that require the use of pre-printed forms where exact color matching on logos or other high-quality graphics are required. RISO will demonstrate this new functionality on a wide range of multi-stock applications, including AFPDS and other production datastreams, using Solimar Print Director™ Enterprise, Solimar® Rubika®, Objectif Lune PlanetPress® Suite and GMC PrintNet T Designer.
• Single-pass full color MICR check and transpromo application. Working in conjunction with partners GMC Software Technology, Arcis Digital Security, Kirk-Rudy, and The Solutions Group, RISO will utilize the ComColor high-speed inkjet printing system to produce the next generation of secure, full-color customer communications at up to 120 PPM while eliminating the need for pre-printed security check paper stocks. Using plain or pre-perfed white paper means the entire job can be done at a savings of 70% or more using RISO high-speed inkjet printers and accessories. The MICR inkjet solution simplifies short-run check printing with unprecedented cost efficiency and full ANSI compliance. The integrated optical verification for MICR line and 2-D datamatrix bar codes ensures document integrity by cross-checking information from several data-fields to confirm the accuracy and compliance of every sheet.
• Full-color variable data printing on standard and windowed envelopes using a combination of ComColor and the Kirk-Rudy KR-324R shuttle feeder. This unique solution provides industry-leading, versatile printing capabilities by printing full-color variable-data envelopes including postal indicias and intelligent mail barcodes (IMB), at speeds up to eighty-five envelopes per minute.

About RISO, Inc. RISO, Inc., headquartered in Danvers, Massachusetts, is a wholly owned subsidiary of RISO Kagaku Corporation, Japan's leading manufacturer and distributor of high-speed inkjet printers and digital duplicators. RISO’s ComColor printers offer fast, affordable, environmentally friendly digital color at speeds of up to 150 pages per minute. Its line of digital duplicators includes one- and two-color systems that reliably produce millions of copies, are environmentally friendly, and are easy and inexpensive to use. To learn more about RISO’s ComColor series, visit www.newinkjet.com, www.brainshark.com or call 1-800-663-3031 ext. 2. Visit RISO, Inc.’s corporate website us.riso.com.

About Solimar Systems Founded in 1991, Solimar Systems, Inc., www.solimarsystems.com, is a leading developer of enterprise output management solutions for mainframe, midrange, and PC/network environments. Installed in thousands of sites around the world, including over 70% of the Fortune 100, Solimar solutions satisfy a wide range of customer requirements by combining document creation, integrated physical communications connectivity, data stream transforms, and sophisticated print queue management with secure document distribution and tracking.

For more information, call the Solimar Sales Team at +1.619.849.2800.

About GMC Software GMC Software Technology helps businesses implement high impact, personalized communications programs that increase customer satisfaction and loyalty, drive new customer acquisition, improve productivity and cut costs. Our GMC Software is an easy to implement, end-to-end solution that provides full data integration and processing, design and composition, collaboration and approval, distributed output management and process automation for highly targeted print and electronic communications. GMC offers exceptionally reliable technologies and services based on worldwide ISO 9001:2000 certification and CMMI development methodology. We serve thousands of users worldwide, and many of our customers are producing in excess of 100 million personalized documents per month – including direct mail, statements, bills, policies, catalogs, correspondence and combined transactional/marketing materials. Learn more at www.gmc.net.

About Arcis Digital Security Arcis Digital Security Inc., based in Markham, Canada, provides innovative digital print security features such as the digital void pantograph and other anti-copy, anti-fraud security features. Easily integrated into any high-speed print system, these features enable on-demand variable data printing with security levels comparable or greater to that of offset-printed security papers, at reduced costs. For more information, visit www.arcisdigitalsecurity.com

About The Solutions Group The Solutions Group (TSG) has developed a suite of applications that can be leveraged and customized to meet specific customer needs. This provides you with the best of both worlds: a proven application and a custom solution to your customer’s needs. For more information, visit www.thesolutionsgroup.com.

About Kirk-Rudy Since 1967, Kirk-Rudy has innovated solutions for addressing and paper handling for the direct mail, printing, newspaper and card industries. Because we engineer and manufacture our systems from end to end in our state-of-the-art Georgia facility, we can control costs while delivering outstanding quality and performance. That means outstanding value for our customers worldwide. Learn more at www.kirkrudy.com.

About Objectif Lune With offices in 14 countries in the Americas, Europe and Asia, Objectif Lune is driven by a passion for creativity and innovation and creates software solutions that use cutting edge technology to solve everyday business challenges in the creation, printing, distribution, processing and archival of business documents. The company’s portfolio includes PlanetPress Suite for transactional printing and workflow automation, and PrintShop Mail Suite for high-speed creation and printing of promotional variable documents. For more information, visit www.objectiflune.com.

InfoBriefing During ON DEMAND

Where? Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC, Room #: 143AB

When? Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Breakfast & Presentation: 7:00 am – 8:30 am

Agenda
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Welcome and Introductions
Jeff Hayes, President
Making the Market Transformation
Barb Pellow, Group Director
Trends in North American Production Digital Print Application Volume
Jim Hamilton, Group Director
Moving Beyond Managed Print: Understanding Future Opportunities
Jon Reardon, Group Director

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XMPie Takes Tracking and Analytics of Personalized Marketing Campaigns to a New Level

PersonalEffect 5.2 includes improved analytics tool, support for PDF/VT, and social media sharing functionality

NEW YORK, Mar. 22, 2011 – As budget pressures continue, everyone today is being asked to validate their spend with quantitative return on investment data – especially marketers. With the release of PersonalEffect® 5.2, XMPie, A Xerox Company, the leading provider of software for one-to-one cross-media marketing communications, is enhancing its unique tracking and analytics technology with more advanced reporting features, major speed improvements, and a new name – PersonalEffect Analytics.

XMPie’s PersonalEffect Analytics combines unique tracking technology for recording events throughout a campaign’s execution, with easy-to-use, visibly attractive reporting, charting, and refined data update capabilities. The unique tracking capability allows for recording all relevant campaign data, including values for variables defined in the campaign-creation brief (e.g., the reference for a picture selected based on the recipient’s profile, or the choice a recipient made in selecting one offer over the other).

With such rich and relevant tracking history, PersonalEffect Analytics allows the marketing professional to view campaign performance in the dimensions that matter to them most, per their defined goals. There is no need to gather tracking data and then cross-check it with a Content Management System or Customer Relationship Management system in order to know the behavior of the specific segments and individuals that were targeted. It is all enabled through integrating XMPie Analytics with XMPie ADOR technology, which drives the cross-media personalization capabilities of the XMPie solutions and allows for streamlined, automatic consistency of message and content across the various media channels used in the campaign.

“Reviewing a campaign’s performance and quickly deciding on changes in message or offer is crucial for the marketing executive,” said Karin Stroh, vice president of Marketing, XMPie. “The integrated view of a campaign’s performance that XMPie Analytics provides gives the information that the marketing executive needs in unprecedented clarity and timeliness, which leads to much better campaign control and results.”

PersonalEffect Analytics introduces gauges for presenting Key Performance Indicators (KPI). Such KPIs can be set up with a defined target and thresholds for performance levels via red, yellow and green zones, so it is easy to see at a glance whether or not a campaign is reaching its target goal. For example, a KPI gauge can be defined to show the proportion of e-mails opened out of the total number of e-mails that were sent. If the desired response rate was at least 20 percent, the green area could start at 20 percent, and the red area could be anything below 10 percent.

In addition to analytics, XMPie’s PersonalEffect 5.2 now includes support for the emerging PDF/VT standard. With support for PDF/VT, users of PersonalEffect 5.2 will benefit from the document format’s capability to allow for faster, more efficient and more predictable production of personalized print pieces, which are an important part of any cross-media campaign. PDF/VT enables high performance rendering of graphically-rich content for printing on high-speed digital presses by caching repeated text and graphics, and is the new ISO standard for producing variable data printing (VDP) jobs.

“As creators of VPS – one of the industry’s first object-based VDP print specification languages – we’ve always focused on supporting the most accurate and efficient VDP format, out-of-the-box, to ensure our users are able to express the top most creativity in highly-efficient VDP workflows,” said Reuven Sherwin, vice president of Products, Research and Development, XMPie. “Working closely with Adobe® for many years, we were the first to support Optimized PDF, and we fully embrace the move towards PDF-VT with this and future versions.”

Among these new PersonalEffect 5.2 features also lies a new Social Media Share function, which enables campaigns to reach beyond the recipient by allowing them to share the campaign messages and/or offers with their social networks. With this tool, users can incorporate Facebook and Twitter “share” buttons within Personalized URLs (PURLs) and e-mails of a campaign, just like any other design element. For lead acquisition, the share buttons can be used to direct the recipients’ friends/followers to a self-registration site where they can learn more and/or sign up for that particular offer. For higher impact, the message generated after clicking a share button can include recipient-specific variable information in order to increase the response rate of the recipients’ friends/followers.

PersonalEffect 5.2 will be available worldwide in May 2011.

All of XMPie’s current products, including PersonalEffect Analytics, can be seen at the ON DEMAND Expo March 22-24 in the XMPie booth 2314. XMPie will also participate in a discussion as part of the newly-formed event taking place during the Expo, the Publishing Xchange Conference. Part of the “Tools and Technologies” track, and presented in conjunction with Digital Innovations Group and NAK Integrated Marketing, the session will focus on tools and tips for tracking audience and response to online marketing and advertising.

XMPie customers The E.F. Group and echo communicate inc. will both present in the “Disrupting the Future: A Printers Guide to Offering Cross-Media Services” and “Cross-Media Marketing” tracks, respectively. Both will discuss in detail what they have done to re-tool for participation in a cross-media world.

To learn more about XMPie products that power personalized, multi-channel marketing campaigns and Web-to-print sites, please call 212-479-5166 or visit www.xmpie.com.

Tweak.com Introduces Partner Printer Strategy at On Demand Expo

NEW YORK and KILLORGLIN, IRELAND (March 2011) - Tweak.com, the world’s largest source of customized design, today announced a partner strategy to facilitate content creation for the world’s largest printing brands. The offering is available as a Tweak-hosted solution requiring no integration or a more customizable embedded version of Tweak.com’s easy to use application.

Currently, there are more than 500,000 designs customized for the particular needs of 300 vertical business types available on Tweak.com, and this number will rise to more than a million pieces by 2012. Tweak.com’s unique offering of high-quality design combined with an easy interface is being offered to the world’s major print franchises and print providers who are pursuing the fast growing online print marketplace.

Tweak.com, which launched a month ago has already won a major accolade by PCMag.com who honored it with an Editor’s Choice award – which is offered to just 5% of their review products.

Jerry Kennelly, Founder & CEO of Tweak.com, described interest in their new service as ‘stunning.’ “This is a game changer for printers who are seeking to deliver a meaningful and sustainable array of content for their small and medium business customers,” said Kennelly. “Tweak.com’s team of talented designers, typographers, copywriters and photographers offer highly crafted design which has been designed with the particular needs of 300 business types in mind.”

With Tweak.com, business owners can, for the first time, “tweak’ web-based design solutions to suit their own business needs (saving up to 80%), while creating the highest quality printed marketing materials. The quality of the service is only comparable to what can be done by high end graphic designers and printers. Tweak.com is the first business of its kind allowing small businesses quick access to the finest design and print options available. The Tweak.com service is a user-friendly, cost effective and simple solution for businesses of all types. Using proprietary technology, the Tweak.com creative team has produced over 500,000 designs which are then customized by the customer themselves on Tweak.com. Tweak.com is so capable that they have a service directed to design & creative agencies to assist them in the timely completion of specific projects for their own clients

Tweak.com allows companies to access an almost limitless number of ready-made designs for postcards, posters, flyers, logos, business cards, and print advertisements, as well as a host of other material including brochures and flyers. Companies can produce their own marketing materials, faster than ever, with an easy-to-use system that allows users to create and print right at their desks. Users don’t need a creative background, nor do they need to hire designers; by using the Tweak.com large database of artwork and designs, in conjunction with Tweak.com in-house professionals, they can customize materials that until now could only be created by full service advertising and marketing agencies. The Tweak.com combination of proprietary technology and in-house staff, linked to the client exclusively via its website, provides huge savings, both in terms of money and time while allowing smaller companies to produce results never before possible.

Key features of Tweak.com include:

• A free logo app is currently available, enabling anyone to create a logo, which normally could cost $3,000 or more.
• Around the clock capabilities to create and edit business designs and materials
• The ability to print in cost-effective and eco-friendly quantities, which can be as low as 50 copies
• The world’s largest inventory of customizable creative designs
• An array of advertising and marketing materials such as business cards, large format displays, newsletters, brochures, and more
• The ability to customize an advertisement to fit the specifications of any magazine or newspaper in the US, UK or Ireland, illustrating rate card pricing.

About Tweak.com
Tweak.com is the one stop affordable, high-end solution for companies, both big and small, that provides total comprehensive marketing and advertising solutions. Tweak is headquartered in Killorglin, Ireland with offices in Dublin and New York.

About Jerry Kennelly
Tweak was created by Jerry Kennelly, founder of Stockbyte and Stockdisc, companies that captured 10% of the global royalty-free stock photography market in ten years before being sold in 2006 to Getty Images. Kennelly started his first business as a photographic news and picture agency in 1981, has been honored by the Deloitte Fast 50 Awards and was selected as the Ernst & Young Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year in 2005. He spearheads the Young Entrepreneur Program in which 2,400 students have participated and in 2009 Endeavour, an adult version of the program was launched and selected 15 start-ups with global potential that Kennelly and his team are helping guide.

Kern Exhibits at ON DEMAND Expo

Grove City, Ohio, March 22, 2011 – Kern, a global leader in high-speed, end-to-end production mail solutions is pleased to announce today that they will be exhibiting at ON DEMAND Expo in Washington D.C. from March 22 to 24. Kern will be located in booth 3206 in the Mailing and Fulfillment Pavilion. Visitors to the Kern booth will witness live product demonstrations of Kern's latest document integrity monitoring system, receive virtual product demonstrations from Kern's wide range of document output management solutions, and have the opportunity to meet industry experts.

This year Kern will be featuring the new Kern 135 DataTracker. The K135 DataTracker is the latest innovation for monitoring document integrity. With a state-of-the-art, high-speed, high resolution line-scan camera that checks the full web width, users have complete empowerment over printed output to detect data errors, monitor print quality, manage re-prints, and full track and trace audit capability. The K135 DataTracker supports control using 2D barcodes, OMR, OCR, Barcodes, or Postal Codes.

In addition to live product demonstrations, visitors to Kern booth 3206 will be able to watch virtual product demonstrations via the Kern Experience interactive video series. Kern experts will be on hand to discuss any concerns or questions visitors may have about how to improve document output processes.

On Demand Expo takes place March 22 to 24 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington DC. ON DEMAND is co-located with info360 and Publishing Xchange, for the first time bringing together the full expanse of Digital Publishing, Digital Print, Cross-Media Marketing and Enterprise Information Management. Show hours are Tuesday from 10:00am – 5:00pm, Wednesday 10:00am – 5:00pm and Thursday 10:00am – 2:00pm. To set up an appointment for a personal tour or meeting during the show, email info@kerninc.com.

About Kern
Kern, Inc., provider of the fastest, most reliable production mail inserting systems and the only company to guarantee 10 years of production grade output, is located in Columbus, Ohio. Kern's top priority remains on creating a successful partnership with customers around the world. Kern, Inc. is the North American subsidiary of the Swiss-based company, Kern AG, which has been privately held for over 60 years. Kern manufactures, distributes, services, and supports its production mail solutions, including world-class inserting systems, pre- and post- processing systems, and open ADF solutions, worldwide. Kern provides solutions to banking, government service, telecomm, insurance, public utility, and other mailers who are looking for a better production mail solution, as well as a partner that is committed to customer success. For more information, visit kerncan.com or call 1.888.KERN.INC.

New Features for PressWise Print Workflow Service To Be Unveiled At OnDemand

Features Include new Inventory Management Module and More Flexible Web-to-Print Storefront Design

AGOURA, Calif., March 18, 2011 - Datatech SmartSoft Inc., will be previewing some exciting new tools for PressWise, its Web-to-Print and Print Workflow Software, at the OnDemand printing tradeshow, which is being held in Washington, DC from March 22-24th, 2011. Datatech SmartSoft can be found at Booth 3119.

PressWise offers a single web-based platform with all the tools required to manage a growing print business, including Web-to-Print Storefronts, Estimating, Order Management, Workflow Automation, Shipping and Fulfillment, and Mail Processing. It was designed as an alternative to purchasing separate software systems for Web Storefronts, Print Workflow Management, Printing MIS and Bulk Mail Preparation, and is available on a SaaS business model, with no long-term contracts.

New features to be shown at OnDemand include:

• New Inventory Module – a new standalone module designed to give printers greater control over their printing supplies and replenishment purchase orders.
• Improved Web-to-Print Design Tools – greatly expanded CSS and HTML controls provide better control over the look and feel of web-to-print storefronts, including support for the creation of custom HTML form pages.
• Enhanced Storefront Templates – new flexible design elements in storefront templates allow items to be linked together for improved flow as user input changes, for a more intuitive customer experience.
• New 64-bit version – designed for maximum PressWise system performance on 64-bit servers.
• Updated Credit Card processing – to satisfy the very latest PCI credit card requirements, helping to prevent credit card fraud through more secure handling of payment data.
• Enhanced Batch Mail Processing for Bulk Mail Jobs – utilizing Datatech SmartSoft’s industry-leading mailing software, SmartAddresser 5 to maximize postal discounts through address verification and mail presorting.

“On the back of a very successful show at Dscoop, we are looking forward to reaching out to the OnDemand attendees and showing them the latest web-to-print and workflow tools that are generating such interest because of the tremendous savings and greater efficiencies they are bringing to PressWise customers.” said Eric Wold, Vice President, Datatech SmartSoft.

“Our customers are telling us that PressWise has paid for itself in as little as 90 days and helped them position themselves for growth in a challenging market. We encourage anyone wanting to learn more about print workflow automation to stop by the Datatech SmartSoft booth and see how PressWise can help them do the same.”

To find out more about PressWise, or to schedule a one-on-one product demo at OnDemand, please visit www.PressWise.com.

About Datatech SmartSoft, Inc.
Datatech SmartSoft provides desktop and enterprise-level workflow solutions for postal address correction, postal discounts, and print management. Their products include the AccuMail postal address correction software, the all-in-one address quality and postal presorting solution, SmartAddresser 5, real-time address validation and keystroke savings software for data entry, AccuMail Verify, and the end-to-end print workflow solution, PressWise. Datatech SmartSoft is a privately held company with offices in Agoura, Santa Barbara, Philadelphia and Montreal. Visit www.smartsoftusa.com for more information.

About PressWise
PressWise is an end-to-end Print Workflow solution. Developed over 8 years of rigorous in-shop testing and live use, PressWise comes complete with robust features such as web ordering, unlimited templates, estimating, quoting, order processing, workflow management, complete shipping integration, fulfillment and the ability to integrate with most third party web storefronts (including Printable, Saepio, PageFlex, OPS and more) and existing back-end accounting or print MIS. For more information, visit www.presswise.com.

ECRM to Showcase Affordable Digital Printing Solution at ON DEMAND 2011

TEWKSBURY, MA -- March 17, 2011 -- ECRM Imaging Systems today announced that they will be showcasing the DPP1200 digital production press next week at the ON DEMAND 2011 Expo in Washington DC. The DPP 1200 is positioned to deliver commercial quality color output for the demands of today’s commercial printer. The system offers economically priced digital printing to supplement to their current print production offerings. The new and innovative digital press is capable of producing high-quality business cards, posters, brochures, magazine covers, real-estate pages and much more in line screens up to 175 lpi.

ECRM will be exhibiting in booth #2829. The On Demand 2011 Exposition is being held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center (March 22-24) in Washington, DC. For more information about ECRM and their offerings, go to www.ecrm.com.

ECRM Quote
“ECRM understands that many printers have resisted investing in very expensive digital presses that come with their own production workflows. Their staff would need to be trained to operate and maintain these proprietary systems, which are wholly separate from their offset processes. These solutions have historically made digital printing a very costly endeavor.” notes ECRM Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Doug Barr. “Yet, without an economical way to print short run work, revenue from these jobs is escaping down the street to competitors and corner fast-print outlets. ECRM’s DPP 1200 allows the printer to produce jobs with a single workflow, and at output gives them the choice of either digital or conventional offset printing. With a low cost of entry and a very affordable cost per page, the DPP 1200 makes high-quality digital printing a real-world reality for any commercial printer.”

About ECRM
ECRM Imaging Systems is a global leader in imaging technologies for the graphic communications industry. For over four decades ECRM has successfully applied a broad range of optical, imaging, laser, and digital-electronic technologies to meet the business needs of its customers. Today, ECRM is the patented flatbed violet laser-imaging technology leader. The Massachusetts-based company has sold and supported more than 5,000 computer-to-plate devices and over 27,000 imagesetters in 110 countries around the world. ECRM's Tewksbury, MA facility is ISO 9001:2008 certified and is dedicated to maintaining the highest standards in research and development, design, manufacturing, service, and support. For more information, go to www.ecrm.com.

Publishing Xchange Conference Announces Speaker Lineup of The Industry's Finest

-- The Publishing Xchange Conference will debut at On Demand 2011 This Month in DC --

NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS – March 2, 2011 – The Publishing Xchange Conference, debuting this year at the On Demand 2011 Exposition (March 22-24 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington DC), today announced a dynamic speaker line-up of nearly 60 of the industry most renowned experts and presenters. This who’s who of the printing, publishing and marketing industries will offer their experiences and insight addressing the New Rules and New Tools of the changing landscape in Publishing, Marketing and Print Services, throughout six educational tracks and more than 30 sessions over the two-and-a-half day conference. A complete list of sessions and speakers is available online at www.publishingxchange.com/speaker-biographies/2011-speaker-biographies.

Developed by an advisory board of 29 of the industry’s most prophetic minds, the Publishing Xchange Conference offers a venue where participants share their real-world experiences, roadblocks, work-arounds, and success stories. Supported by what may be the best expert panels ever assembled in this market, attendees have an opportunity to share and soak in ideas, concepts, and working strategies that will bridge their business forward to new markets, new revenue streams and a brighter long-term outlook. This is especially valuable to company executives who understand the transforming needs of the marketplace.

For information about the new Publishing Xchange, go to www.publishingxchange.com.

For more information about the On Demand Exposition go to www.ondemandexpo.com.

Speaker and Session Line-up
Over 60 speakers will be presenting their experiences and offering expert analysis in more than 30 sessions over the two-and-a-half day conference. Some of the highlighted presenters and sessions are:

PG Bartlett (The Tech Behind Publishing Platforms for Mobile Publishing);
John Dougherty, Jeanniey Mullen, and Alan Snyder (Choosing the Best Digital Magazine Partner);
Jason Ellis, Carl Gerhardt, and Ed Marino (The Proof: A Printing Reality Show);
Mark Lewiecki and Jennifer Matt (Personalization Marketing Tools for Print and Electronic Distribution);
Bob Sacks (Self Publishing: Create Your Own Media Empire?);
Dr. Joe Webb (A Case for Change: Disrupting the Future);

For a complete list of sessions, go to: www.publishingxchange.com/conference-tracks/sessions-designed.

Publishing Xchange Influencers
To get to the heart of the state and future of digital services, the conference has enlisted the analysts from Outsell, Yieldbot, InfoTrends, IDG Marketing, and MediaIDEAS, who will be sharing their latest research and intelligence. In addition, the conference will highlight the available and futuristic tools of many of the industry’s technology leaders who will showcase their latest solutions, and discuss critical issues and field-tested best practices.

Attendees will learn from top players what they need to know, how it’ll impact their businesses, and what they can expect from technology today and down the road. Among these players are industry leaders such as:

• Adobe
• Agfa
• Allegra Network
• Cadmus Communications
• Congressional Quarterly
• Hachette Filipacchi Media
• Hearst Magazines
• Quark
• Reynolds Dewalt
• Trekk Cross Media
• Wilde Marketing
• WoodWing Software

These companies represent but a small sampling of the many contributors who will discuss their experiences, successes and challenges.

About Questex Media Group
Questex Media Group LLC is a global, diversified business-to-business integrated media and information provider, headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts. Questex serves several industries including technology, telecommunications, beauty, spa, travel, hospitality, leisure, home entertainment, landscape design, building services, and natural resources through a range of well-established, market-leading publications, events, interactive media, research, information and integrated marketing services.

The company's media properties include over 100 print and digital media publications, 45 conferences, tradeshows and events, as well as a range of research, data and information products. The company's businesses are managed through operating companies including Questex Media Group; InfoTrends, Inc., Imaging Networks, and; McLean Events International, Ltd, a world-leading producer of appointment-based events. The company's combined operations include more than 400 employees in offices throughout North America, South America, Asia and Europe. For more information, visit www.questex.com.

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EFI Solutions on Display at ON DEMAND and ITEX

EFI will be showcasing a selection of its product portfolio at the upcoming ON DEMAND 2011 (March 22-24) and ITEX 2011 (March 22-23) conferences taking place at the Walter E. Washington convention center in Washington, D.C.

ON DEMAND 2011:
EFI, booth 3007: highlighting EFI Pace™, EFI PrintSmith™ and EFI Digital StoreFront®

Canon USA, booth 1901: Fiery®-driven A3200 and GX-300, as well as EFI MicroPress® and Digital StoreFront

Konica Minolta Business Solutions, booth 2400: Fiery-driven bizhub PRESS C7000 and C5501 and MicroPress

Ricoh, booth 2601: Fiery-driven Ricoh Pro C901 along with Fiery Central

ITEX 2011:
EFI, booth 601: showcasing Fiery office solutions including Fiery VUE, PrintMe® and SendMe™

In addition, EFI product line manager Mark McCuen will present “Driving MPS Success Through Visual Print Workflows & Green Printing Solutions” on Wed., March 23 at 1:30 p.m. and 2:00 p.m.

About EFI
EFI is a world leader in customer-focused digital printing innovation. EFI's award-winning solutions, integrated from creation to print, deliver increased performance, cost savings and productivity. The company's robust product portfolio includes Fiery® digital print controllers and solutions; VUTEk® superwide digital inkjet printers, UV and solvent inks; Rastek™ UV wide-format inkjet printers; Jetrion® industrial inkjet printing systems; print production workflow and management information software; and corporate printing solutions.

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Nothing herein should be construed as a warranty in addition to the express warranty statements provided with EFI products and services.

This news release contains forward-looking statements, that are statements other than statements of historical fact including words such as “anticipate”, “believe”, “estimate”, “expect”, “consider”, “plan” and similar, any statements related to strategies or objectives of management for future operations, products, development, performance, any statements of assumptions or underlying any of the foregoing and any statements in the future tense. Forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual or future results to differ materially. For further information regarding risks and uncertainties associated with EFI’s businesses, please refer to the risk factors section in the Company’s SEC filings, including, but not limited to, its annual report on Form 10-K and its quarterly reports on Form 10-Q.

EFI undertakes no obligation to update information contained herein, including forward-looking statements.

Questex to Announce 2011 Business Transformation Award Winner at Publishing Xchange Conference

-- Presentation in Conjunction with On Demand 2011, March 23rd in Washington DC --

NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS – March 9, 2011 – Questex Media, producers of the On Demand 2011 Exposition and the Publishing Xchange Conference, today announced that this year’s winner of the Business Transformation Award will be unveiled next Wednesday, March 23rd, at 5:00 pm in conjunction with the Publishing Xchange Conference. The annual award honors innovative firms in the commercial printing, publishing, in-plant, and digital communications services markets that have recently transformed their businesses to better serve their customers, the industry, their community, or their corporate interests.

Beginning in early January, Questex asked industry vendors, associations, writers, and service providers to nominate companies. A panel of eight renowned industry judges was established to independently score each nomination. Nominees were judged upon:

• The originality of the transformation;
• The positive change in the success of the business;
• Impact of the transformation on the business’ customers;
• How the transformation impacts future development;
• How their business transformation impacted their local community at large.

The presentation on Wednesday (March 23rd, in room 146) is open to all attendees of the On Demand Expo, the Publishing Xchange conference, and the Info360 conference, which will be held simultaneously at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center beginning next Tuesday, March 22nd.

Immediately following the awards ceremony will be the Publish or Perish game show running until 6:30pm. Hosted by Chuck Weger, you'll see two teams of industry experts compete for glory and honor! Plus, you get a chance to stump these so-called "experts," and win prizes yourself.

Frank Romano Quote
“Successful printers are transforming their business. They are applying the Internet and digital printing in all forms and expanding into new value-added services,” notes Frank Romano, Professor Emeritus, RIT. “It is more than just machines and software -- it is a re-invention of the printing business for the 21st century. The Business Transformation Award recognizes those enterprises who are creating the future of the graphic communication industry.”

About Questex Media Group
Questex Media Group LLC is a global, diversified business-to-business integrated media and information provider, headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts. Questex serves several industries including technology, telecommunications, beauty, spa, travel, hospitality, leisure, home entertainment, landscape design, building services, and natural resources through a range of well-established, market-leading publications, events, interactive media, research, information and integrated marketing services.

The company's media properties include over 100 print and digital media publications, 45 conferences, tradeshows and events, as well as a range of research, data and information products. The company's businesses are managed through operating companies including Questex Media Group; InfoTrends, Inc., Imaging Networks, and; McLean Events International, Ltd, a world-leading producer of appointment-based events. The company's combined operations include more than 400 employees in offices throughout North America, South America, Asia and Europe. For more information, visit www.questex.com.

For more information about the Publishing Xchange Conference go to www.publishingxchange.com

For more information about the ON DEMAND Exposition go to www.ondemandexpo.com.

Publishing Xchange Names Charlie Corr Wednesday Keynote Speaker

--The Publishing Xchange Conference will debut at ON DEMAND 2011 This March in DC --

NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS – January 11, 2011 – Questex Media, producers of the ON DEMAND 2011 Exposition announced that Charlie Corr, one of the industry’s foremost thought leaders, will keynote the show’s Wednesday main session. Corr, Vice President of Corporate Strategy at Mimeo.com, will present “The New Era of Printing & Publishing On Demand” on Wednesday, March 23rd, commencing at 9:00 am. The keynote presentation will be offered in concert with the Publishing Xchange conference. Scheduled to debut at this year’s show (March 22-24 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington DC), the conference is aimed at publishers, marketers, printers and digital service providers.

For information about the new Publishing Xchange, go to >>>.

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The New Era of Printing & Publishing On Demand
The session will be a thought provoking review of the evolution of printing and publishing, and examine the new era we’ve entered. Businesses are now challenged by both threats and opportunities that impact the entire value chain (from publishers to printers to distributors to end users). While the evolving view options will gain share, new business strategies, requirements, and technologies provide keen opportunities for the savvy market player.

Corr will call upon his vast library of market data and in-the-trench experience to support his presentation. Living it every day at Mimeo, he’s at the center of this change with cloud-based solutions that continuously transcend print. Among the topics to be analyzed:

• The evolution of the market;
• New technologies that drive new business opportunities;
• Examples of how to succeed;
• Challenges that need to be addressed.

About Charlie Corr
Corr is one of the foremost thought leaders in the printing & publishing industry. He is currently responsible for corporate strategy at Mimeo, a leading on-line print service provider and content publisher. Prior to joining Mimeo, Corr was a Group Director for InfoTrends, the leading market research and strategic consulting firm in the imaging industry. At InfoTrends his responsibilities included strategic consulting, market research, and directing several continuous information services. Prior to that he was responsible for operations at Harvard University Printing & Publication Services. He has also taught at Northeastern University, and started his career in printing & publishing while still in high school.

About Mimeo.com
Mimeo.com is the innovator of online, on-demand business document and photo solutions. Over 60% of the Fortune 100 rely on Mimeo’s award winning cloud-based document management tools and print on demand services to lower document related costs while improving employee productivity. Mimeo supports a wide variety of companies with the company’s open platform, a solution that enables partners and over 8,000 companies to leverage all or part of the Mimeo web-to-print platform as it were their own.

About Questex Media Group
Questex Media Group LLC is a global, diversified business-to-business integrated media and information provider, headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts. Questex serves several industries including technology, telecommunications, beauty, spa, travel, hospitality, leisure, home entertainment, landscape design, building services, and natural resources through a range of well-established, market-leading publications, events, interactive media, research, information and integrated marketing services.

The company's media properties include over 100 print and digital media publications, 45 conferences, tradeshows and events, as well as a range of research, data and information products. The company's businesses are managed through operating companies including Questex Media Group; InfoTrends, Inc., Imaging Networks, and; McLean Events International, Ltd, a world-leading producer of appointment-based events. The company's combined operations include more than 400 employees in offices throughout North America, South America, Asia and Europe. For more information, visit Questex.

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Questex To Recognize Transforming Businesses with Annual Award

--Nomination Period Begins Today with Presentation to be Made at On Demand 2011, March 23 in Washington DC --

NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS – January 20, 2011 – Questex Media, producers of the On Demand 2011 Exposition and the Publishing Xchange Conference, today announced the development of an annual award that will honor innovative firms in the commercial printing, publishing, in-plant, and digital communications services markets. The award recognizes firms that have recently transformed their businesses to better serve their customers, the industry, their community, or their corporate interests.

Questex is asking industry vendors, associations, writers, and service providers to nominate companies online until February 18th at: questex.wufoo.com/forms/business-transformation-award-nomination-form.

panel of eight renowned industry judges has been established to independently score each nomination. The 2011 Business Transformation Award will be presented on Wednesday, March 23rd, at 5:00 pm in conjunction with the Transform! 2011 Conference.

Frank Romano Quote
“Successful printers are transforming their business. They are applying the Internet and digital printing in all forms and expanding into new value-added services,” notes Frank Romano, Professor Emeritus, RIT. “It is more than just machines and software -- it is a re-invention of the printing business for the 21st century. The Business Transformation Award recognizes those enterprises who are creating the future of the graphic communication industry.”

Award Judging Criteria
The core objective is to honor and promote businesses that have transformed through expansion, acquisition, or intellectual business strategy. Or have transformed their segment or industry through technological application. The judging will not be extended to industry software or hardware vendors. The basis for judging will focus upon:

• The originality of the transformation;
• The positive change in the success of the business;
• Impact of the transformation on the business’ customers;
• How the transformation impacts future development;
• How their business transformation impacted their local community at large.

Industry Transformation
For corporate leaders, the transformation of a business entity is inevitable. Market requirements are constantly evolving, usually in lock-step with technological advancements. Firms that resist change are often the first to fall to the wayside, and overtaken by their competition. But the transformation process is usually an industry secret, only really recognized many years later in the wake of new market revolutions.

Questex, in co-operation with the Transform! 2011 conference, aims to recognize industry innovators and leaders that have recently taken the steps to transform their businesses. This recognition will not only bring widespread understanding of the value of transformation, but industry wide attention to the outstanding leadership and management skills of the executive management teams from the award winners. This recognition is also extremely valuable to marketing departments seeking further evidence to differentiate their innovative companies in the marketplace.

About Questex Media Group
Questex Media Group LLC is a global, diversified business-to-business integrated media and information provider, headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts. Questex serves several industries including technology, telecommunications, beauty, spa, travel, hospitality, leisure, home entertainment, landscape design, building services, and natural resources through a range of well-established, market-leading publications, events, interactive media, research, and information and integrated marketing services.

The company's media properties include over 100 print and digital media publications, 45 conferences, tradeshows and events, as well as a range of research, data and information products. The company's businesses are managed through operating companies including Questex Media Group; InfoTrends, Inc., Imaging Networks, and; McLean Events International, Ltd, a world-leading producer of appointment-based events. The company's combined operations include more than 400 employees in offices throughout North America, South America, Asia and Europe. For more information, visit Questex.

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Questex Announces Educational Tracks Lineup for Publishing Xchange Conference

--The Publishing Xchange Conference will debut at On Demand 2011 Next March in DC --

NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS – December 2, 2010 – Questex Media, producers of the On Demand 2011 Exposition today announced the educational tracks that will be offered at the Publishing Xchange conference. Scheduled to debut at next year’s show (March 22-24 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington DC), the conference will offer six different tracks aimed at publishers, marketers and digital service providers.

Supporting the educational value of the tracks will be established and recognizable industry analysts and experts from research firms Outsell, InfoTrends, and mediaIDEAS, and information outlets including, The Seybold Report, IDEAlliance, and WhatTheyThink.com, as well as publishing industry expert Thad McIlroy. For information about the new Publishing Xchange, go to < href="http://www.publishingxchange.com/" originalAttribute="href" originalPath="http://www.publishingxchange.com/" originalAttribute="href" originalPath="http://www.publishingxchange.com/" originalAttribute="href" originalPath="http://www.publishingxchange.com/">>>>. For more information about the On Demand Exposition go to < href="http://www.ondemandexpo.com/" originalAttribute="href" originalPath="http://www.ondemandexpo.com/" originalAttribute="href" originalPath="http://www.ondemandexpo.com/" originalAttribute="href" originalPath="http://www.ondemandexpo.com/">>>>.

Six Dynamic Tracks
The collaboration of expert analysts, industry professionals and open forums will promote the sharing of experiences and ideas, to the benefit of all in attendance. The tracks announced are:

• The State and Future of Publishing: This track will explore where publishing is and where it’s going. Producing this track will be Outsell Incorporated. Outsell is the premier research and advisory firm focused on the publishing and information industries. < href="http://www.outsellinc.com/" originalAttribute="href" originalPath="http://www.outsellinc.com/" originalAttribute="href" originalPath="http://www.outsellinc.com/" originalAttribute="href" originalPath="http://www.outsellinc.com/">outsellinc.com.
• Publishing Today and Tomorrow: Supported by the collaboration of mediaIDEAS industry veteran Thad McIlroy of The Future of Publishing, and others, these sessions will help magazine, book, and self publishers, and the companies that support them, make informed strategic decisions and plan for the future via actionable reports, subscription-based global research and analysis. < href="http://www.mediaideas.net/" originalAttribute="href" originalPath="http://www.mediaideas.net/" originalAttribute="href" originalPath="http://www.mediaideas.net/" originalAttribute="href" originalPath="http://www.mediaideas.net/">mediaideas.net and < href="http://www.thefutureofpublishing.com/" originalAttribute="href" originalPath="http://www.thefutureofpublishing.com/" originalAttribute="href" originalPath="http://www.thefutureofpublishing.com/" originalAttribute="href" originalPath="http://www.thefutureofpublishing.com/">thefutureofpublishing.com.
• Tools and Technologies: Producing this track will be the executive editors from The Seybold Report. Tools and Technologies will explore the latest and most innovative science available to today’s publishers and marketers. < href="http://www.seyboldreport.com/" originalAttribute="href" originalPath="http://www.seyboldreport.com/" originalAttribute="href" originalPath="http://www.seyboldreport.com/" originalAttribute="href" originalPath="http://www.seyboldreport.com/">seyboldreport.
• Cross Media Marketing: InfoTrends, the leading worldwide market research and strategic consulting firm for the digital imaging and document solutions industry, is producing these sessions based upon their extensive research. Direct marketers, technology vendors, and service providers will hear about results from the trenches and better understand how to achieve success with cross-media marketing, as well as share the results of InfoTrends’ latest multi-client study entitled Capturing the Cross-Media Direct Marketing Opportunity. < href="http://www.infotrends.com/" originalAttribute="href" originalPath="http://www.infotrends.com/" originalAttribute="href" originalPath="http://www.infotrends.com/" originalAttribute="href" originalPath="http://www.infotrends.com/">infotrends.com.
• eMedia Technologies: The exploration of the eMedia standards and innovations available to today’s publisher will be supported by IDEAlliance (International Digital Enterprise Alliance) a leader in information technology and publishing standards and practices since 1966. These sessions will focus upon the advancements in core technologies that will enhance efficiency and speed information to target audiences. < href="http://www.idealliance.org/" originalAttribute="href" originalPath="http://www.idealliance.org/" originalAttribute="href" originalPath="http://www.idealliance.org/" originalAttribute="href" originalPath="http://www.idealliance.org/">idealliance.org.
• Disrupting the Future: A Printers Guide to Offering Cross Media Services: Based upon the book by Dr. Joe Webb and Richard Romano, these sessions will be produced by the whattheythink.com top analysts. Targeted at trade service providers, these user forums will offer a step by step approach to making cross-media services a profitable revenue stream. < href="http://www.whattheythink.com/" originalAttribute="href" originalPath="http://www.whattheythink.com/" originalAttribute="href" originalPath="http://www.whattheythink.com/" originalAttribute="href" originalPath="http://www.whattheythink.com/">whattheythink.com.

About Questex Media Group
Questex Media Group LLC is a global, diversified business-to-business integrated media and information provider, headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts. Questex serves several industries including technology, telecommunications, beauty, spa, travel, hospitality, leisure, home entertainment, landscape design, building services, and natural resources through a range of well-established, market-leading publications, events, interactive media, research, information and integrated marketing services.

The company's media properties include over 100 print and digital media publications, 45 conferences, tradeshows and events, as well as a range of research, data and information products. The company's businesses are managed through operating companies including Questex Media Group; InfoTrends, Inc., Imaging Networks, and; McLean Events International, Ltd, a world-leading producer of appointment-based events. The company's combined operations include more than 400 employees in offices throughout North America, South America, Asia and Europe. For more information, visit < href="www.questex.com" originalAttribute="href" originalPath="www.questex.com" originalAttribute="href" originalPath="www.questex.com" originalAttribute="href" originalPath="www.questex.com">questex.com.

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