IPMA, Ricoh Team up to Empower In-plants

Just days before the In-Plant Printing and Mailing Association (IPMA) conference begins in Denver, Ricoh USA has announced that it will serve as the event’s first Diamond Sponsor, partnering with IPMA to provide tours of the company’s nearby facilities, as well as educational sessions and networking events.

This move will give attendees a hands-on look at the innovative print technologies housed in Ricoh’s nearby Customer Innovation Center, where they will also have an opportunity to engage with Ricoh’s team of experts to discuss their specific business needs and concerns. Along with the Customer Innovation Center visit, learning sessions will be available to help attendees uncover new ways to improve operations and grow their business. Sessions that afternoon will cover topics like the role of Print M.I.S. in today’s in-plant; partnering with Marketing to increase your relevance; accelerating your ROI; production inkjet; Web-to-print; variable data printing; and retooling for digital.

After an early lunch on Tuesday, June 21, a bus will transport attendees to the Customer Innovation Center. In addition to educational tour stops and  refreshments, the visit will include several options for informative sessions, including seminars and demonstrations. To help ensure each attendee has sufficient opportunity to learn and connect with their colleagues, the visits will be split into two groups — one for early afternoon, one later — which will reunite at the end of the day for a Boulder Restaurant Crawl, providing various networking opportunities as well as a variety of meal options.

“IPMA is a vital organization in our industry, and its team produces a unique event for in-plant printers across numerous verticals, all over the country,” said John Fulena, Vice President, Production Printing Business Group, Ricoh USA, Inc. “Trade events such as these help us to keep open lines of dialogue with organizations in the business segments we serve, so we can make sure we are not only aware of the challenges they face, but also that we are working with them, in ways they see as valuable, to address those challenges.”