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Lewis Creative Technologies Uses Two Xerox iGen3 Digital Presses to Print 1 Million Web-to-Print, Customized Color Jobs Monthly.


"The iGen3 presses enable us to create high-value applications to solve our clients' specific business needs"

RICHMOND, Va. & ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Lewis Creative Technologies has grown its digital color volume, powered by two Xerox (NYSE NYSE

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: XRX XRX Xerox Corporation (stock symbol) ) Corporation iGen3([R]) Digital Production Presses, to more than 1 million prints monthly, producing everything from personalized per·son·al·ize  
tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es
1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner.

2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify.
 new member booklets to application forms and surveys.

The commercial print provider uses its Xerox iGen3 color presses, driven by Xerox FreeFlow([R]) DocuSP([R]) Color Servers, to keep up with increased customer demand for automated Web-to-print applications for customized online order fulfillment Order fulfillment (in BE also: order fulfilment) is in the most general sense the complete process from point of sales inquiry to delivery of a product to the customer. Sometimes Order fulfillment . Examples include customer retention and loyalty applications and full-service surveys for its customers in the insurance, financial, consumer, educational and medical industries.

Global Safe Haven 1. Designated area(s) to which noncombatants of the United States Government's responsibility and commercial vehicles and materiel may be evacuated during a domestic or other valid emergency.
2.
 Network (GSHN), for example, depends on personalized communications to increase its membership. The organization, which works to inform young travelers about safe travel practices, uses Lewis Creative Technologies' print services to create highly-targeted new membership packages. Through an online registration process, GSHN prints booklet covers personalized with the recipients' names and contact information and membership cards are printed on custom Xerox DocuCards([R]). Designed to be waterproof, tear-proof and durable, Xerox DocuCards are used to create membership cards, identification cards and loyalty cards where durability and professional looking images are important.

"The transition to digital is necessary for print providers to survive in today's competitive market, which is why we chose to install Xerox iGen3 presses," said Chris Lewis Chris Lewis may refer to:
  • Chris Lewis (tennis), a retired professional tennis player;
  • Chris Lewis (Australian rules footballer), an Aboriginal Australian rules footballer with the West Coast Eagles;
, president, Lewis Creative Technologies. "The iGen3 presses enable us to create high-value applications to solve our clients' specific business needs, especially at short-run lengths. It wouldn't be economically feasible to produce these applications without digital technology, and in fact we've achieved double-digit revenue growth since implementing digital capabilities."

Lewis Creative Technologies uses the XMPie Personal Effect[TM] suite for nearly all of its personalized and one-to-one applications as well as XMPie APIs for custom interface and application development. The company also plans to use XMPie's UImage[TM] technology on its upcoming projects to help integrate image personalization Custom tailoring information to the individual. On the Web, personalization means returning a page that has been customized for the user, taking into consideration that person's habits and preferences.  with variable data printing. XMPie is a standalone stand·a·lone  
adj.
Self-contained and usually independently operating: a standalone computer terminal. 
 software unit of Xerox.

Each Xerox iGen3 press is equipped with the extra large paper option (14.33" x 22.5") to allow more jobs to run on each sheet. Lewis Creative Technologies also uses the OPEN New Opportunities with Digital Printing Kit from Xerox's ProfitAccelerator[TM] Digital Business Resources Collection to help its salespeople sales·peo·ple  
pl.n.
Persons who are employed to sell merchandise in a store or in a designated territory.
 educate customers about the possibilities afforded by digital technology. The kit features nine Xerox cross-channel communications programs Software that manages the transmission of data between computers, typically via modem and the serial port. Such programs were very popular for connecting to BBSs before the Internet took off.  and highlights the benefits of digital direct-mail campaigns - from simple personalization to more sophisticated cross-media programs.

A Xerox Premier Partner, Lewis Creative Technologies entered digital printing in 2001 with the purchase of a Xerox DocuColor([R]) 2045 Digital Color Press to complement its traditional offset business.

About Lewis Creative Technologies

Lewis Creative Technologies is a commercial print provider with 60 employees and a 90,000 square foot facility in Richmond. Current offerings include sheet-fed offset printing, color digital printing with full variable imaging, print-on-demand, automated workflow, graphic design, composition, Web-to-print, and complete mailing and fulfillment ful·fill also ful·fil  
tr.v. ful·filled, ful·fill·ing, ful·fills also ful·fils
1. To bring into actuality; effect: fulfilled their promises.

2.
 services. It was the first commercial printing company in central Virginia to install a Xerox iGen3 press and the only printing company in central Virginia to operate two of Xerox's flagship digital color production presses.

Customer Contact:

For more information about the Xerox iGen3 Digital Production Press, call 800-ASK-XEROX or visit www.xerox.com/tr/iGen3.

For more information about Lewis Creative Technologies, visit www.lewisct.com.

NOTE TO EDITORS: For more information on Xerox, visit www.xerox.com/news. XEROX([R]), FreeFlow([R]), DocuCards([R]), DocuSP([R]), ProfitAccelerator([TM]) and iGen3[R]are trademarks of XEROX CORPORATION (company) XEROX Corporation -

http://xerox.com/.

See also XEROX PARC, XEROX Network Services.
. DocuColor is used under license.
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