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Platinum Sponsor:

GMC Software Technology helps businesses implement high impact, personalized communications programs that increase customer satisfaction and loyalty, drive new customer acquisition, improve productivity and cut costs. Its award-winning PrintNet software is an easy to implement, end-to-end solution that provides full data integration and processing, design and composition, collaboration and approval, distributed output management and process automation for highly targeted print and electronic communications. GMC offers exceptionally reliable technologies and services based on worldwide ISO 9001:2000 certification and CMMI development methodology. It serves thousands of users worldwide, many customers are producing in excess of 100 million personalized documents per month — including direct mail, statements, bills, policies, catalogs, correspondence and transpromo materials. www.gmc.net.

As a global leader in information technology, HP applies new thinking and ideas to help remove complexity and simplify technology experiences. We strive to continuously improve the way our customers live and work through sophisticated technology that is easy to use and manage. HP's quality engineering and reliable service and support gives all of our customers from individual consumers to the largest enterprises greater freedom to focus on their priorities and confidence to reach their goals. Because ultimately we know that each time we create a truly valuable experience, we are helping people achieve results that really count. more information is available at www.hp.com.

Kodak is a leading provider of innovative solutions for conventional, digital and blended print production environments. Kodak’s Graphic Communications Group, one of Kodak’s strategic business units, provides technologies, products and services that help print providers streamline processes, optimize efficiencies and broaden services. The most expansive portfolio for the graphic communications market includes solutions for digital printing, workflow, prepress, high volume and wide format inkjet printing, and document imaging. With the largest global sales force, an experienced worldwide service network and extensive industry expertise, Kodak is the right partner to help customers grow their businesses. For more information, visit www.graphics.kodak.com.

Océ is a leading provider of digital document management technology and services. Our reliable solutions help print professionals work productively and deliver value to the bottom line. Océ workflow software complements a comprehensive line of both color and black and white print systems. As TransPromo applications become more essential to marketing strategies, Océ helps customers use variable messaging and quality printing to leverage the communications power of their regular mailings. As a result, companies can operate more efficiently, capture more revenue and build stronger customer relationships. To learn more visit www.oce.com.

RISO, Inc., headquartered in Danvers, Massachusetts, is a wholly owned subsidiary of RISO Kagaku Corporation, Japan's leading manufacturer and distributor of production printers, digital duplicators and supplies.  RISO sells high-speed color and monochrome printing solutions throughout the Americas.

RISO’s ComColor® printers provide fast and affordable full color digital printing for everyday communications, at speeds up to 150 pages per minute, even printing duplex! No other full-color sheetfed inkjet printer can print as fast as RISO's ComColor printers. Plus, you’ll print in brilliant full color for almost the same cost per copy as black and white on other printers. They print on a variety of paper stocks and sizes—including envelopes and card stock, in sizes up to 11”x17”.

RISO’s environmentally friendly digital duplicators are helping thousands of organizations to “go green.” RISO’s 600dpi MZ990 is the world's fastest two-color digital duplicator at 150 ppm and offers great quality and low energy usage. Like other RISO digital duplicators, the MZ990 is ENERGY STAR qualified and uses 95% less energy than photocopiers. To learn more, visit www.us.riso.com.

A pioneer in digital printing, Xeikon designs, develops, and delivers high-end digital color printing systems covering the entire spectrum of professional printing applications. Its systems are composed of advanced web-fed presses using led array dry toner electrophotography, cutting-edge workflow software, and peripheral equipment. The Xeikon IPDS Controller combined with the X-800 digital front-end is the benchmark for high-end variable data production and fully automated workflows in any production environment. Based on open standards, Xeikon systems are compatible with any third-party application to form truly integrated end-to-end solutions.

Xeikon systems stand out by their exceptional combination of print quality, speed, reliability, print formats, and flexibility. What is more: Xeikon aims to minimize the environmental impact of its products throughout their entire life span. From concept to operation, Xeikon presses and consumables comply with existing environmental directives and anticipate environment-related product standards and customer needs. Xeikon toner contains no harmful chemicals and Xeikon-printed paper is guaranteed to be recyclable as the toner can be easily removed and disposed of.

Distributed and supported through a worldwide sales and service network, Xeikon solutions have all it takes to turn digital printing into a sustainable and profitable business. Xeikon is a division of Punch Graphix. For more information visit www.xeikon.com.

Xerox Corporation is a $17.6 billion technology and services enterprise that helps businesses deploy smart document management strategies and find better ways to work. Its intent is to constantly lead with innovative technologies, products and solutions that customers can depend upon to improve business results.

Xerox provides the document industry's broadest portfolio of offerings. Digital systems include color and black-and-white printing and publishing systems, digital presses and "book factories," advanced and basic multifunction systems, laser and solid ink network printers, copiers, and fax machines. Xerox's services expertise is unmatched and includes helping businesses develop online document archives, analyzing how employees can most efficiently share documents and knowledge in the office, operating in-house print shops or mailrooms, and building Web-based processes for personalizing direct mail, invoices, brochures and more. Xerox also offers associated software, support and supplies such as toner, paper and ink. To learn more, visit their website www.xerox.com.

Silver Sponsors:

Since 1995, CrawfordTech's award-winning solutions have helped over 500 companies around the world reduce costs associated with mission-critical transactional customer communications. Our products, solutions and expertise help our clients deliver key documents to their customers in the format they need, when they need it.

To find out more about our customers, people, partners, products and solutions visit www.crawfordtech.com.

Focused on helping print and mail specialty service bureaus and vertical market resellers manage high-volume transactional output (HVTO) print streams, DocuLynx offers software and services that let enterprises move away from traditional paper or antiquated distribution methods. By reducing your company’s reliance on paper-based report output, and slow legacy systems, DocuLynx can help you revolutionize the way your business manages documents. For more information, visit www.doculynxinc.com. 

DST Output, a subsidiary of DST Systems Inc., provides integrated print and electronic statement and billing output solutions to many of the country’s largest financial services, communications, insurance, healthcare, and utilities companies. In 2006, DST Output and its affiliates produced more than 2.6 billion customer communications, delivered throughout the United States, Canada and the U.K. via postal service, express delivery and over the Internet. DST Output is the largest third-party First-Class™ mailer in the U.S. and the world's largest inkjet systems printer. To learn more visit www.dstoutput.com.

Pageflex products, from Bitstream Inc., offer more capability for variability than any other product on the market today. From simply personalizing a document to automatically changing the entire look, feel, and length of a document on-the-fly, Pageflex brings flexibility to communications. Thousands of users around the world rely on Pageflex technology to produce personalized communications in print, e-mail, and on the Web. Learn more at www.pageflex.com.

Pitney Bowes Emtex Software is an industry leader in providing the most comprehensive suite of Production Intelligence mailstream solutions to link print and mail workflow. Enabling organizations to deliver high integrity customer communications through an optimized mailstream that includes centralized job and print management, any-to-any transformation, real-time document re-engineering, automation of data collection and reporting, empowering organizations to schedule, route, transform, track and analyze production workflow. For more information, visit www.emtex.com. 

Prinova Inc. provides innovative software, document design, development, and delivery solutions for the large volume document delivery market. With messagepoint™, Prinova's Marketing Message Management solution, marketers are able to rapidly plan, create, target and deliver highly personalized messages to transactional documents and other channels without IT involvement. Prinova’s integrated approach™ to design marries the best of the creative and technical worlds to provide clients faster time to market and reduced development costs. For more information, visit www.prinova.com.

Printable is a leader providing technologies for intelligent marketing built on open-architected web to print systems that enable online corporate storefronts (available in both Software as a Service [SaaS] and server versions) and scalable variable data publishing software that produces powerful personalized marketing campaigns. For more information, visit www.printable.com.

Lanyard Sponsor:

DST Output, a subsidiary of DST Systems Inc., provides integrated print and electronic statement and billing output solutions to many of the country’s largest financial services, communications, insurance, healthcare, and utilities companies. In 2006, DST Output and its affiliates produced more than 2.6 billion customer communications, delivered throughout the United States, Canada and the U.K. via postal service, express delivery and over the Internet. DST Output is the largest third-party First-Class™ mailer in the U.S. and the world's largest inkjet systems printer. To learn more visit www.dstoutput.com.

Printing Sponsor:

Quality Printing Company offers single to eight-color, on-demand and commercial printing. Additional services include personalized & variable data printing, proofing, bindery and direct mail capabilities. Our advanced graphic technologies are the finest in the region and set us apart from our competitors. We offer fast turnaround times and competitive pricing with excellent service by our employees. We invite you to learn about our company and to let us know what we can do for you and your company. Learn more at www.qualprint.com.

Educational Sponsors:

The Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council is dedicated to high-level knowledge exchange, thought leadership and personal relationship building among senior corporate marketing leaders and brand decision-makers across a wide-range of global industries. The CMO Council's 4,000 members control more than $120 billion in aggregated annual marketing expenditures and run complex, distributed marketing and sales operations worldwide. In total, the CMO Council and it's strategic interest communities include over 12,000 global executives across 90 countries in multiple industries, segments and markets. Regional chapters and advisory boards are active in the Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa. The Council's strategic interest groups include the Coalition to Leverage and Optimize Sales Effectiveness (CLOSE), Brand Management Institute, and the Forum to Advance the Mobile Experience (FAME). Learn more at www.cmocouncil.org.

The Direct Marketing Association is the leading global trade association of business and nonprofit organizations using and supporting multichannel direct marketing tools and techniques.

DMA advocates standards for responsible marketing, promotes relevance as the key to reaching consumers with desirable offers, and provides cutting-edge research, education, and networking opportunities to improve results throughout the end-to-end direct marketing process. Founded in 1917, DMA today represents more than 3,400 companies from dozens of vertical industries in the US and 48 other nations, including half of the Fortune 100 companies, as well as nonprofit organizations. Learn more at
www.the-dma.org.

Xplor International, also known as The Electronic Document Systems Association®, is the worldwide association, of users and suppliers of the products and services that create, modify, and deliver customized information using a variety of document technologies. Incorporated in 1981 as a not-for-profit association, it is worldwide network of regions and chapters are directed, organized, and governed by its members.

Xplor International represents thousands of professionals in over 35 countries. Our members engage in the design, production, and distribution of variable data documents, ranging from high volumes of statements, bills, insurance policies, and personalized direct mail to very customized marketing materials.

Xplor is the community of choice for education, information sharing and networking that continually strives to meet the needs of our members and to provide leadership to the evolution of the document systems industry. Learn more at www.xplor.org.

Xplor began as an informal gathering of the early production laser printer users to enable discussions on problems, develop solutions, and share knowledge. More than 25 years later, this opportunity to network is still the most significant benefit Xplor has to offer its members. No other industry group has anything like the depth and breadth of knowledge than that residing in the membership of Xplor. More importantly, it is readily available through conferences, phone calls, and the internet. To learn more about Xplor UK & Ireland visit www.xploruk.org.uk.

Premier Media Sponsor:

Outputlinks serves those who buy, sell, use, manage and provide resources within the high volume transaction output (HVTO) industry. OutputLinks exists to centralize, simplify and accelerate the sales, purchase, research and implementation process in the HVTO industry. To learn more about Outputlinks visit www.outputlinks.com. 

Media Sponsors:

Digital Publishing Solutions (DPS) magazine is dedicated to providing a resource of thought-provoking content, spotlighting present applications and success stories in digital content publishing for business leaders. In each issue you will find editorial dedicated to three major topics surrounding digital documents: Digital Print, Transactional Printing, and Document Strategies. To learn more about Digital Publishing Solutions visit www.dpsmagazine.com. 

e-views is a quarterly journal provided to members and is now available online. The publication title has changed from The VIEW but still offers the same content based on news and developments from the digital document industry. To learn more about e-views visit www.xploruk.org.uk.

IPG is the leading graphic arts magazine written specifically for in-plant reproduction departments. It covers technical and business-related topics, focusing on publishing, prepress, printing, bindery and mailing. Other topics include profiles of successful in-plants, management issues, industry news and the latest graphic arts products. To learn more about In-plant Graphics Magazine visit www.ipgonline.com.

Published monthly, Printing Impressions magazine provides authoritative coverage on industry trends, emerging technologies and the news behind the news in the Graphic Arts industry. We profile successful executives and their companies, giving insightful information on how they have been able to thrive, not just survive, in a highly competitive marketplace. Our regular contributing columnists consist of recognizable industry pundits who provide keen insight and inspiration. Subscriptions are available free to individuals who meet pre-established demographic criteria. To learn more about Printing Impressions Magazine visit www.piworld.com.

The Target Marketing Group of products helps direct marketing professionals market more successfully and profitably. Via magazines, e-mail newsletters, Web sites, webinars, virtual trade shows, conferences, books and more, Target Marketing Group supplies the insight and advice that readers have come to rely on to remain competitive. Target Marketing Group titles include Target Marketing, All About ROI (formerly Catalog Success), eM+C, FundRaising Success, Inside Direct Mail, Denny Hatch's Business Common Sense, Publishing Executive and Book Business.

Target Marketing is the direct marketer's partner, providing strategies and solutions for profitable direct marketing. Target Marketing delivers the answers that help direct marketing professionals market more successfully and profitably. Through case studies, best practices, trend analysis, tips and techniques, and interviews with experts, Target Marketing covers channel/data integration, prospecting, customer retention, operations infrastructure, contact optimization. To learn more about Target Marketing visit www.targetmarketingmag.com.