Xerox Corp.

There have been some notable developments in the digital production landscape for folding cartons, but overall the landscape has not changed significantly in the past year and a half.

At its 2013 Annual Conference in Orlando, FL, NPES The Association for Suppliers of Printing, Publishing and Converting Technologies elected a new chairman, two new directors and re-elected several returning directors.

Fueling customer speed, quality and efficiency, EFI will present its award-winning products at PRINT 13. EFI won eight honors in the Must See 'Em competition, more than any other entrant.

In the world of packaging, labels lead in the adoption of digital with rapid growth in both electrophotography and inkjet. While the main force behind this is the proliferation of SKUs, driven by the brands, there are many other factors that are enabling this growth.

Digital print has taken hold in several areas in commercial print and book publishing, driven by the need to maximize the return on the investment (ROI) in print. However, packaging print, book printing, and commercial printing are all very different.

PODi, the Digital Printing Initiative, announced today that Xeikon, an innovator in digital printing technology, has become a member and joins the ranks of industry leaders focused on the adoption of digital technology applied to labels & packaging.

InfoTrends recently surveyed converters of labels, folding cartons, and flexible packaging in North America, ultimately to ask a few overarching questions: What do converters want when it comes to print technology? What are their pain points? How can digital printing presses help? Our survey, of course, asked many other questions, but those are the key ones.

Ursula Burns, chairman and CEO of Xerox, has been chosen as the recipient of the 2013 Prism Award by the The Advisory Board of the NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies Graphic Communications Management and Technology graduate program. Burns selected EFI CEO Guy Gecht as her Prism Luncheon Chair.

NPES has elected four new directors and has re-elected several returning directors to the NPES Board during its business meeting on November 12 at the organization's 2012 Annual Conference in Indian Wells, CA.

News on suppliers to the packaging printing industry, including items on Brandtjen & Kluge, Girl Scout Cookies and Anthem Worldwide, Heidelberg, EFI and Online Print Solutions (OPS), Schober USA, Trelleborg, Siegwerk Canada and USA (CUSA), Anderson & Vreeland, Channeled Resources Group, Davis-Standard, Harris & Bruno, Elsner Engineering, UEI Group and Southern Lithoplate, Inc.