CIP4 Announces Print Automation Features to be Shown at Ipex 2010

The Print Automation Live! program expands on what attendees may learn about in the Print Automation Pavilion to the entire Ipex show. “Many printers find it hard to visualize a fully automated printing environment,” says Mark Wilton of Wilton & Partners Consulting Inc. and CIP4’s Education and Marketing Officer. “The purpose of the Print Automation Live! program is to allow printers to follow a job from its inception through to finishing to see exactly what steps, labor, and time are saved along the way, and also how automated print production systems work together to improve the printer’s control over their own operations.” Any exhibitor can host a Print Automation Live! site in its booth, and many will need to coordinate with partners to show an end-to-end production line. Furthermore, some Print Automation Live! sites may demonstrate multiple workflows with various combinations of equipment. “We are very excited about this program,” says Trevor Crawford, event director of Ipex 2010. “Print automation isn’t something that is just simply bought, it involves planning on the printer’s part and coordination among supporting vendors. The Print Automation Live! program makes this very important technology concept tangible, and will be highly beneficial to Ipex 2010 attendees, as well as exhibitors.”