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Quad/Graphics, Inc. announced its participation at the retail industry’s foremost digital marketing conference, Shop.org, which will be held at the Los Angeles Convention Center on September, 25-27, 2017. The $4 billion company helps brand owners in a variety of industries, including retail, publishing and healthcare, market their products, services and content more efficiently and effectively. To do this, Quad/Graphics leverages its strong print foundation in combination with its deep expertise in workflow re-engineering and optimization, content management and personalized, multi-channel marketing. Quad/Graphics, in partnership with award-winning digital marketing agency Rise Interactive, uses consumer behavioral data to create personalized, multi-channel strategies that drive a greater return on marketing investment. This partnership is one example of the strategic alignments Quad/Graphics seeks to evolve its offerings and drive continued value across its customer base. Click Read More below for additional detail.

KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. (KGL), the leader in transformative content solutions, has been named a Benetech Global Certified AccessibleTM (GCA) vendor. A global social enterprise nonprofit, Benetech focuses on providing equitable opportunities for all learners and issues this certification to vendors who produce files that meet a full range of accessibility features required to support the needs of all readers, including those with disabilities and learning differences. Benetech’s GCA certification program is the first-ever, third-party EPUB certification program to verify eBook accessibility. As an approved vendor, KGL has demonstrated success consistently producing files in accordance with Benetech’s GCA certification standard, meeting the EPUB Accessibility 1.0 Conformance and Discovery specification and exceeding a publishing standard level of WCAG 2.0 AA.

Taylor Corp. acquired its first production inkjet press in 2009, and it has been a proponent of the technology ever since. But, given that the company — ranked sixth on the 2019 Printing Impressions 400 list of the industry’s leading print service providers — consists of 80 subsidiaries operating in 25 states and nine countries, any technology naturally would need time to make its influence felt throughout an organization of such vast size. Inkjet technology gained a higher profile within the Taylor family when a business unit of one of its companies recently became the first printing site in the world to install an AccurioJet KM-1e sheetfed color production inkjet press from Konica Minolta. The press, an enhanced version of Konica Minolta’s successful AccurioJet KM-1 platform, is expected to broaden the range of what the business unit and its parent company can produce, achieving new levels of quality and cost efficiency for both. The B2+ format, LED-UV AccurioJet KM-1e went into full operation at FolderWorks, a division of Navitor, at Navitor’s North Mankato, Minn., headquarters in March.