Harvey Levenson

Ricoh’s Production Printing Business Group has donated a Pro C900S digital color production printing system to California Polytechnic State University’s Graphic Communication Department. The announcement was made on the first day of the PRINT 09 trade show in Chicago. At the press conference, Dr. Harvey Levenson, head of Cal Poly’s Graphic Communication Department, noted that Ricoh’s short-run color technology is part of what students are already learning at the San Luis Obispo, Calif.-based school.

Kansa Technology has installed a Kansa 320 Inserter in Cal Poly’s Graphic Communication Department, providing students with the latest technology in newspaper inserters and related material-handling equipment.

The Kansa inserter supports the university’s Goss International Web Printing Laboratory, which houses a Goss Community four-high publication press. In addition to teaching web publication printing, the Graphic Communication Department runs an experiential student-run and managed printing and publishing operation, University Graphic Systems. This enterprise allows students to produce the Mustang Daily.

Eight leading national corporations and Cal Poly’s College of Liberal Arts have signed on as initial sponsors of the university’s Sustainability Conference, “The Business of Green Media,” set for Jan. 24. “Sustainability is a very important issue and will be so for the foreseeable future,” says Harvey Levenson, head of the Graphic Communication Department at Cal Poly. The conference is intended to provide thought-provoking information about the challenges of sustainability and climate change and to deliver practical steps that can be taken immediately. It will feature GPO Public Printer Robert C. Tapella, who will speak at a Sustainability Banquet at the end of

SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA—11/12/07—Several international companies sensitive to the issues of sustainability have stepped up to do something about it. Kodak, Mohawk Papers, Quebecor World, and Xerox are initial sponsors of the upcoming sustainability conference at Cal Poly, titled “The Business of Green Media.” The conference, set for Jan. 24, will bring together leaders in the production of sustainable media. Sessions will focus on the business challenges and opportunities that face the graphic arts community and those involved in media production. This includes printers, publishers, packaging companies, advertising agencies, graphic designers, Web and Internet site developers, and equipment manufacturers and supply vendors, and educators. A reception

Day-Long Seminar in New York Will Feature Presentations by Leading Experts on the Most Advanced Virtual Proofing Systems and Applications NEW YORK, NY and SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA, March 21, 2007 — In their first joint bi-coastal effort, the New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies (NYU-SCPS) Master of Arts Program in Graphic Communications Management and Technology, and the Graphic Communication Institute at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, California, will host a day-long seminar on virtual proofing (VP) in New York City on Tuesday, April 17th. Starting at 8:00 a.m., the Virtual Proofing Seminar sessions will be held in the Public Assembly Room

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