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Radius Solutions - Booth #4754

PECAS Vision II, is the latest release of ERP software. PECAS Vision, offers a low risk option for anyone in search of a print or packaging management information system. This new product supports a modern N Tier architecture, and scales easily across multiple operations, countries and languages. What's more, with PECAS Vision II, customers can improve their performance in the following functional areas:

- Estimating : allows for accurate and fast estimate production, as it's custom engineered to fit the sophisticated requirements of the commercial print and packaging industry.

- Order Handling: when it comes to Order Handling, PECAS makes entering an order as simple as picking up the original sales estimate. And, quantity changes can be accommodated without the need to manually re-estimate.

- Raw Material Control: PECAS' integrated Raw Materials module ensures that each customer will stay in control of the complete procurement cycle - from requisition to issuing a job.

- Scheduling and Data Collection: The Scheduling module features a highly intuitive electronic planning board. Customers can manipulate the plan by dragging tasks with the mouse, or using the Automatic Scheduler to create optimized plans. Planners can also utilize "what if" capabilities to test various scenarios before publishing the plan to the entire plant. www.radiussolutions.com

Rampage Systems, Inc. - Booth #5018

New from Rampage Systems is Version 9 featuring PDF-NORM and ROOM workflows , Mac OSX Client software, JDF-based imposition, Rampage Segundo for hybrid stochastic screening, and new trapping functions for varnishes, bump colors, and mitered traps for up to 32 separations.

- Also shown will be Rampage Remote , a $16,000 system for Internet-based proofing and collaboration, which is seamlessly integrated with Rampage or Brisque workflows. Remote has no usage fees and allows print buyers to securely check job status, proof content, measure color, check ruleup, annotate, hard copy proof, etc.

- Rampage will also show CEGway , which enables Brisque to work with plating and proofing systems from leading manufacturers including Fuji , Epson, Tekgraf, and others. www.rampageinc.com

RealTimeImage - Booth #5137

RealTimeImage (RTI), the standard for online proofing and approval management showcases its 2003 GATF Intertech Award-winning RealTimeProof technology. GATF bestowed the distinguished award in recognition of RealTimeImage's innovative online proofing technology found in its RealTimeProof Express solution. "It will enable the industry's transition to soft proofing, not only for content proofing but also for contract color proofing," noted a GATF InterTech Award judge.

- RealTimeProof Express is based on RTI's revolutionary, high-resolution Internet imaging platform featuring the highest industry standard for color managed, web-based proofing, approval, and collaboration workflows. RealTimeProof Express, the hybrid ASP/local system, combines the workflow management efficiencies of the RealTimeProof.com ASP with a local, high-resolution streaming server. RealTimeProof Express is most suitable for high production volumes or multi-site companies looking for local, secure, image streaming with centralized administration.

- RTI will also showcases its complete family of RealTimeProof online proofing featuring new color management advancements, localization and OSX compatibility and other new features. According to RTI, consequently, even less iterations of hard copy color proofs need to be generated, distributed, and waited on by clients, agencies, prepress shops, printers, and publishers.

- RealTimeImage powers online proofing solutions for WAM!NET, Kodak Polychrome Graphics, AGT, QuebecorWorld/Acme, RR Donnelley, Sandy Alexander, IPC/MailWell & many more. Look for partnership updates including news on RealTimeImage's latest collaboration with EFI – this time pairing RealTimeImage with Best ink jet proofing solutions. www.RealTimeImage.com and/or www.RealTimeProof.com

Rochester Institute of Technology / Printing Industry Center - Booth #5421

Dedicated to the study of business environment influences in the printing industry brought on by new technologies and societal changes, the RIT Printing Industry Center addresses the printing industry's concerns through the following activities.

- Research: RIT was designated a Sloan Foundation Industry Center in 2001 and is supported by fifteen leading companies—a testament to RIT's commitment to growth in the printing industry. Expert faculty researchers in printing and business build and carry out the multidisciplinary research initiatives adopted by the Center, including: Industry Definition and Strategic Analysis, Processes, Productivity and Profitability, Cross-media Migration and Integration, Digital Color Printing.

- Education: With over 50 years as the leading institution for graphic arts education, the School of Print Media at RIT provides future industry leaders with undergraduate and graduate programs focused on pertinent industry technology and issues.

- Industry Education Programs (IEP) provides education for the industry in traditional and digital technologies using world-renowned instructors, comprehensive press labs, and state-of-the-art imaging facilities. Programs customized to a company's specific needs are delivered on campus or at the company facility.

- Evaluation Services: Leveraging RIT's intellectual resources and comprehensive collection of full-scale contemporary printing equipment, the Printing Applications Laboratory (PAL) provides industry with the most comprehensive facility for applied research services, including printing, paper and material evaluations, product audits and development, competitive benchmarking, and process improvement.

www.rit.edu

Roll Systems - Booths Xerox 1016, CP Bourg #3602, Xeikon #1540, GBR #437

Roll Systems is exhibiting with several of our partners at Graph Expo:

- In the Xerox booth, Roll's DocuSheeter DT roll feed system with grain rotator option is a key part of Xerox's Manual+Book Factory. DocuSheeter feeds rolls of 60,000 sheets to the Xerox DocuTech 6180, for 10 hours or more between loads, increasing printer and labor productivity. CP Bourg finishing modules complete the solution, producing manuals or books in-line.

- Roll joins with CP Bourg and Xerox again in the Bourg booth, exhibiting a Signature Stacker handling output from the Bourg BPRF module. The Signature Stacker stacks folded signatures and offsets book blocks. The finished book blocks are immediately available, making the Signature Stacker ideal for off-line/near-line bindery operation.

- The Digital Color Unwinder is feeding a Xeikon DCP 500/D in the Xeikon booth. Roll's Digital Color Unwinder feeds jumbo rolls to the Xeikon color printer, generating substantial paper savings, a reduction in paper waste, and a boost in productivity.

- In the GBR booth, Roll's Inserter Unwinder is feeding the MB Select, an on-line special system for creation of service manuals with pull-out technical sheets. For more information call 781-229-2266. www.rollsystems.com

Show Theme: Printing Freedom that Runs the Gamut

Printing Freedom is realizing flexibility and potential in your digital printing investments. It means escaping the boundaries of limited functionality. The wide array of digital print possibilities will show printing freedom that runs the gamut at Graph Expo 2003

Main Booth #1056

VersaMark® Vantage™ – Roll to Roll – 5 Printheads with the S400 Galaxy Controller

The VersaMark® Vantage™ is an integrated digital printing system capable of producing 100 percent variable data in black, spot color or CMYK process color, depending on the configuration. The VersaMark Vantage makes variable data color printing affordable for everyone. Its low price and smaller footprint give VersaMark Vantage broad appeal to transactional document and commercial printers with lower volumes and smaller facilities. It allows printers with monthly print volumes as low as three million images per month to realize a positive ROI printing Business Color™.

Dijit® Passport™ 4300 UV – It is an integrated industrial printing system that features a full 2.5” print width incorporating piezo drop on demand technology UV curable ink and UV dryer. It has printing resolution of 300x300 dpi, print speeds up to 330 fpm, and the ability to print on an extremely wide variety of substrates which makes its ideal for packaging and plastic card applications.

Dijit® 6240 on a Kepes Mail Base – The Dijit® 6240 is a 4.27 inch digital printing system that features resolutions of 240 x 240 dpi at speeds up to 1,000 feet per minutue. The Dijit 6240 printing systems is fully featured and modular. Each model accommodates a variety of software applications to assist in job layout, setup and font selection and each features a wide variety of ink colors for the widest possible selection in color matching. It is ideal for personalization, graphics, addressing, barcoding, numbering and logos.

Mailing & Fulfillment Booth # 3673

Dijit® Passport™ 4300 with 2 printheads, black and red along with a Dijit® Liberty™ 7122 on Kepes Mail Base with tip on Read and Print with an Axode Camera System.

These systems will demonstrate printers optimized for high-speed addressing, barcoding, numbering, and personalization with graphics and logo printing capabilities. These 1-inch to 2.5 inch print arrays offer true production speeds at low operating costs. A printer can mount these printers on a mail base or add value to current equipment – like presses, folders, bindery lines, inserters, and collators – by integrating these modular digital printers inline with printing converting, and finishing systems.

StaffingTools.com - Booth #4962

StaffingTools.com, the leading provider of affordable Prepress Training Solutions for companies such as Applied Graphics Technology, Bowne of Canada, Ltd., and Transcontinental Canada; showcases its latest course offerings including: Font Management in OS X; Creo Preps; Enfocus PitStop Server; Pantone Hit The Spots; and coming soon, Acrobat 6; QuarkXPress 6 and Masking in Photoshop 7.

- StaffingTools.com courses include pre-tests, customized training curriculums, post-tests and certificates of completion. Students learn at their own pace, anytime 24/7 without travel expenses or lost production time. The courses include unlimited access to retest and retrain for a full 365 days a year.

- StaffingTools.com offers a hosted Learning Management System (LMS) that requires no additional hardware or software purchases so companies can ensure that its employees are completing courses on time and with the test scores that they want them to achieve.

- The company's extensive Prepress and Graphic Arts Library of 35+ unique training and testing courses comprises the world's most popular programs - e.g., Photoshop, Quark, PitStop, Preps -- and soon, OS X fundamentals. For more information visit StaffingTools.com at Graph Expo booth #4962 or visit www.staffingtools.com

Standard Finishing - Booth #3430

Standard Finishing System's reputation has been built on high-quality, high-production print finishing products and service excellence. Standard specializes in high-production floor model equipment, and is proud to offer a comprehensive line of collators, perfect binders, bookletmakers, saddlestitchers, folders, and cutters, designed to meet the most demanding finishing requirements.

- In response to the special needs of the expanding digital print-on-demand Marketplace, SFS also provides a complete range of in-line, off-line, and automated off-line finishing products including sheet feeders, unwinders, cutters, and rewinders. SFS also offers other finishing products such as counters, drills, joggers and spine-tapers.

- For the first time at Graph Expo, Standard will show the Standard Horizon StitchLiner 5500 , bridging the production gap between existing flat sheet collating/booklet making systems and conventional high-volume saddlestitching lines. Offset or digitally printed flat-sheet signatures are fed from the Standard Horizon SpeedVAC collator to produce saddlestitched booklets with full bleed trimming, at up to 11,000 two-up booklets/hour.

- The Standard Horizon BQ-270 Perfect Binde r will be showcased. The BQ-270 features high-quality production perfect binding with fully-automated operation and push-button simplicity, and is designed for single-person production up to 500 books/hour. Features include an intelligent touch-screen console, automatic air-suction cover feeding with in-line scoring, and job programming. www.standardfinishing.com

Stora Enso North America - Booth #2870

Stora Enso North America, a division of the northern Europe-based Stora Enso Group, is a leading producer of coated and supercalendered paper for the printing and publishing industries. Stora Enso North America employs 6500 people in 27 locations in Canada and the United States and delivers 2.8 million tons of paper products annually to North America . Exhibiting in booth # 2870, Stora Enso will be presenting a full line of coated and uncoated papers, highlighting:

- Centura is a 100% Premium, coated paper. But what makes a paper premium? It's more than a brightness number or unprinted sheet of paper. Find out what makes Centura, 100% Premium. Talk to a Stora Enso representative about the benefits of Centura's four finishes: Gloss, Silk, Dull and Matte - and don't settle for less than 100%.

- Stora Enso Digital Papers offers a full line of coated and uncoated papers designed for today's digital technology. 4CC Color Copy and Futura Laser will be two of the Digital Papers showcased in live demos at our booth on a Canon color copier. Discover which paper is right for your application and made for your machine. For more information, call 888-807-8672 or visit www.storaenso.com/na