Throughout the day attendees heard firsthand accounts of the application of leading
edge products and technologies covering the entire spectrum of digital book printing from
high speed inkjet systems to the Espresso Book Machine.
• Brent Marple, Technical Sales & Customer Education for Courier Companies, Inc.
discussed a new digital inkjet book printing facility the company is building in North
Chemsford, MA, where it is installing the first HP T-300 inkjet web press book
manufacturing line (an HP Indigo 7000 digital press will be used for covers)
• Stephen Wilson, VP of Digital Sales, CGX Publishing Solutions, gave an overview of
CGX’s services for publishers, including its use of high speed inkjet systems such as
the InfoPrint 5000
• Larry Brewster, Senior Vice President Strategy and Business Development, Ingram
Content Group, updated the audience on Lightning Source’s global activities and
developments in Paris, France, Milton Keynes, U.K., Allentown, PA, and La Vergne,
TN, where it uses multiple Océ continuous-feed printing lines for POD and short-run
printing
• Jac Garner, President & CEO, Webcrafters, Inc., a large, national, family-owned four-
color book manufacturer, discussed the company’s current use of Kodak NexPress
digital presses to produce short-run educational and trade editions, and its plans to
install a Kodak Prosper inkjet press in the fall of 2010
• Walter Silva, Founder, Conceptual Production Development Inc., discussed CPD’s use
of a RISO HC5500 ComColor Express cut-sheet inkjet printer to produce full-color
technical and education books
Afternoon sessions explored recent developments in book distribution enabled by
centralized and point of sale distribute-and-print, and included presentations from:
• Bruce Jacobsen, Executive Vice President of Bridgeport National Bindery discussed
his company’s partnership with CPI/Anthony Rowe to provide distribute-and-print
services to Oxford University Press
• Richard Hollick of Oxford University Press discussed the university’s use of POD and
distributed printing
• Larry Bennett, VP of Digital Print Media at Baker and Taylor addressed the company’s
distributed POD arrangements with R.R. Donnelley
• Bronwen Blaney of the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, MA gave the audience an
overview and update of the bookstore’s use of an Espresso Book Machine (EBM)
which utilizes a Xerox 4112 black-and-white printer to produce text and inkjet to
produce covers for point of sale for producing POD books
• Larry Brewster of Ingram discussed the status of Lightning Source’s arrangement with
Hachette Livre to provide distribute and print services at the publisher/distributor’s
distribution facility near Paris
The 2010 Digital Book Printing Forum was held Tuesday, March 9, 2010, during the
annual Publishing Business Conference & Expo organized by Book Business magazine at the
New York Marriott Marquis in midtown Manhattan. The event was sponsored by leading
players in the market, including Baker & Taylor, Hewlett-Packard, InfoPrint Solutions,
Kodak, Nipson, Océ, RISO, Xerox, and Xeikon.