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Western Graphics Installs Two Xerox iGen3 Digital Color Presses in Less Than a Year; Commercial Printer Registers Record Revenue Growth since Installing First iGen3 Press.


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: XRX XRX Xerox Corporation (stock symbol) ) iGen3(R) 110 Digital Production Press, Western Graphics Inc. recently installed a second digital color press to meet growing customer requirements for short-run, quick-turnaround, high-quality, full-color print jobs.

Since the first Xerox iGen3 press installation in April 2005, the full-service commercial printer has experienced record revenue growth and has expanded into new markets such as financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject.
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, manufacturing and retail.

"When deciding where to make our next investment - offset or another digital press - there was no question another iGen3 press was the best bet. That's where we see the business growing the fastest," said Tim Keran, president, Western Graphics Inc. "The Xerox iGen3 press expands our digital business and drives sales for all our services, including offset."

The company currently prints more than 500,000 pages a month on its initial iGen3 press, and, in the next 90 days, it expects to print an additional 500,000 pages a month on the second digital press. Digital print jobs currently account for more than 30 percent of overall printed volume, and Keran expects those numbers to increase.

Western Graphics was impressed by the advanced technology in the iGen3 press as well as its history and success with Xerox black-and-white digital production printers. Keran said the company purchased the iGen3 presses for their superior image quality and ability to print on a variety of sheet sizes and weights.

Among the innovative applications the company is printing on its Xerox iGen3 presses are highly targeted, personalized per·son·al·ize  
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Western Graphics uses Xerox's FreeFlow(R) Variable Information Suite - part of the Xerox FreeFlow Digital Workflow In print publishing, using the computer to lay out text and illustrations prior to creating film negatives for every page or going directly to plate. Prior to digital workflow, the typesetting and pre-press stages were far more time consuming and labor-intensive.  Collection - for merging data into its personalized digital jobs at high speeds. The company also uses Xerox FreeFlow Print Manager so it can easily integrate the digital workflow between its monochrome and color digital equipment, supported by the Xerox FreeFlow DocuSP(R) print controller on all of its digital presses.

Many of the company's corporate customers use WestNet, Western Graphics' online ordering system. One manufacturing customer links its internal dealership collateral Web site to WestNet to produce personalized postcards, posters and sell sheets. This system is designed to work seamlessly with the Xerox iGen3 press.

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 Keran, Xerox's partnership is invaluable not only to Western Graphics but also for the competitive advantage it brings when dealing with its customers.

Western Graphics also chose Xerox for its customer business development tools, part of the ProfitAccelerator(TM) Digital Resources Collection. Among the tools used are the uPublisher Digital Learning Simulator, giving companies the knowledge and skills needed to succeed in the digital book publishing book publishing. The term publishing means, in the broadest sense, making something publicly known. Usually it refers to the issuing of printed materials, such as books, magazines, periodicals, and the like.  market. Another marketing tool, the Vertical Market Kit, helps printers demonstrate the impact of full-color digital technology.

The company is using another Xerox resource to help it reach new markets and get an edge on the competition; it is a member of the Xerox Graphic Arts graphic arts: see aquatint; drawing; drypoint; engraving; etching; illustration; linoleum block printing; lithography; mezzotint; niello; pastel; poster; silk-screen printing; silhouette; silverpoint; sketch; stencil; woodcut and wood engraving.  Premier Partners Program, a global network of leading digital print service providers. The program provides an online forum where graphic communication professionals can network, share information and gain access to industry experts to help them introduce new applications and services.

The commercial printer also has five Xerox digital black-and-white systems - two DocuTech(R) 135 Production Publishers, two DocuTech 6180 Production Publishers and a Xerox 4110 Copier/Printer - together producing more than 4.3 million pages a month.

About Western Graphics

A Xerox customer since 1993, Western Graphics is a 75-employee sole-proprietorship offering prepress, digital and offset printing, fulfillment, warehousing and distribution services. The company was designated a "Best Workplace in the Americas 2005" by the graphic arts trade association PIA/GATF for exemplary human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees.  practices and was most recently named a winner of the Management Plus Award by the National Association for Printing Leadership.

Customer Contacts:

For more information about the Xerox iGen3 110 press, visit www.xerox.com/iGen3 or call 800-ASK-XEROX.

For more information about Western Graphics, Inc., visit www.western-graphics.com or call 800-667-7616.

NOTE TO EDITORS: For more information about Xerox and to receive its RSS (Really Simple Syndication) A syndication format that was developed by Netscape in 1999 and became very popular for aggregating updates to blogs and the news sites. RSS has also stood for "Rich Site Summary" and "RDF Site Summary.  news feeds, visit www.xerox.com/news. XEROX(R), iGen3(R), DocuTech(R), Profit Accelerator(TM), FreeFlow(R) and DocuSP(R) are trademarks of XEROX CORPORATION.
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