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This document provides a brief overview of the financial services market. It includes a market definition, discusses key trends and challenges, and considers how outsourcing decisions are made and by whom. This market is currently undergoing a very dynamic and stressful period, and service providers who take the right approach will be in a better position to succeed.

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Pack Expo 2009 took place October 5 - 7 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Not surprisingly, digital printing only accounted for a small part of the event, dwarfed by the hundreds of stands devoted to filling, sealing, molding, and many other types of packaging manufacturing and converting equipment. Nevertheless, there were a few developments and themes at Pack Expo that are quite relevant to the inkjet market in terms of product coding and the full color printing of prime labels. This analysis discusses those developments and their implications.

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Label Expo 2009 (September 23-26 in Brussels, Belgium) was an encouraging event. It was a big and busy show, with stats to indicate that, even in a tough economy, the industry may have turned a corner. It also was show where the HP Indigo and Xeikon, longtime leaders in high-end digital with their color EP systems, were joined by a raft of inkjet competitors and a few of them are quite new. This document provides a brief overview of some of the key trends and product announcements from this year's event.

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In the wake of the announcement of its managed print services (MPS) partnership with HP, Canon added a big product announcement at the opening of its Integrated Solutions Showcase (September 21-23) at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas. The company announced a new product platform called imageRUNNER Advance. This document covers the imageRUNNER Advance news as well as analysis on other aspects of the event, including a look at solutions and a compelling keynote by Adobe's Dr. Naresh Gupta.

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This paper provides a brief overview of the telecommunications and utilities markets. It includes market definitions, discusses key trends and challenges, considers how outsourcing decisions are made and by whom, reveals who to call on, and offers discussion topics. This will bring print and marketing service providers insight into how to approach this very lucrative vertical market.

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This document provides a brief overview of Pitney Bowes' recently announced partnership with HP. Under the terms of the agreement, Pitney Bowes' new IntelliJet solution will leverage HP's Inkjet Web Press and a Pitney Bowes mail finishing system as part of a full system. This article, which began as an InfoTrends blog, provides additional insight into this announcement and discusses potential implications for the parties involved.

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Three years ago, HP made a commitment to create and lead the next generation of imaging and print devices with its enterprise momentum strategy. This week's announcements are a significant continuation and contribution to that strategy, essentially filling the gaps in HP's strategy. This will allow HP to provide a complete line of products that are combined with the company's expertise in digital content and workflow solutions, as well as its strong services offering through EDS. This piece provides the details and a brief analysis of the recent HP announcements.

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Océ has extended its monochrome VarioPrint 6000 series into a new, faster, and speed-upgradable product family called Ultra. The top-of-the-line VarioPrint 6320 Ultra offers duplex throughput of 313 A4/306 letter images per minute. It has a U.S. list price of $375,000 and will ship in January 2010. The previous VarioPrint 6000 models are upgradable to Ultra functionality and will benefit from its new features. Also of particular interest is a new Océ program called SpeedPass that allows a VarioPrint 6000 Ultra user to upgrade speed temporarily when high volume is required.
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Kodak has announced a new platform for its next generation of NexPress products. Called SE, the platform offers improved quality and productivity through three new developments: a quality improvement process called the Intelligent Calibration System (ICS), quality and uptime improvements through next generation consumables and image development, and an advanced front-end using Adobe's PDF Print Engine 2. The new offerings based on the SE platform are called the NexPress SE2500, the NexPress SE3000, and the top-of-the-line 120 ipm NexPress SE3600.

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After demonstrating the technology at drupa in May 2008, Canon Europe has now officially launched Helix Production Workflow as a Web-based workflow solution targeted for Central Reprographics Departments (CRD) and quick print/print-for-pay markets. Evolved from Canon's uniFLOW product, Helix PW integrates Web submission, digital workflow management, and prepress automation into one solution. This analysis takes a closer look at Helix PW as it exhibits the potential to become a strategic component in Canon's overall solution offering for the production market.  read more »