April 21-22, 2005
Holiday Inn Washington Dulles
1000 Sully Road (Route 28)
Sterling, VA 20166
1-703-471-7411
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April 21-22, 2005
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Expand Your Horizons | ||
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Friday, April 22 | |
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| 7:30 - 10:30 | XPLOR Registration - Plantation Ballroom Foyer |
| 7:30 - 8:30 | Continental breakfast - Plantation Ballroom |
| 8:30 - 8:45 | General business and Meeting logistics - Plantation Ballroom
Kathy Rixham, EDP, President, Xplor MidAtlantic Region. General business, including brief Committee Reports, & Announcements. |
| 8:45 - 9:30 | Xplor Keynote
Reinhard Hohensee, Chief AFP Architect - IBM Transaction Color Management, Issues and Challenges The AFP Color Consortium, involving leaders from across the printing industry, is working to bring reliability, data integrity, quality and consistency to high volume color printing environments. Reinhard Hohensee, Chief AFP Architect for IBM Printing Systems, will discuss the activities of the Consortium, first formed at Xplor 2004, as it progresses towards an industry-defined, fully open architecture that addresses the complex functions of color management. The goal, to achieve accurate and consistent output of color across different devices, will benefit the entire printing industry. The presentation will also include a short video containing statements from AFP Consortium Participants. AFP Color Consortium Perspectives Tim Lynn, AFP Consortium Member - Elixir AFP Color Management Viewing Considerations Tim will talk about how Elixir expects to benefit from the architecture, in addition to describing color viewing requirements and the efforts of the Consortium to incorporate viewing into it's definition of Color Management. Question & Answer session. |
| 9:30 - 10:15 | Xplor Speaker session
Rick Schadle, General Manager, Advanced Solutions Operations - Xerox Corporation The Importance of Color Variable Data Printing on Your Business Strategy The presentation makes the case for transactional printers to adopt color variable information printing as the best means to profit, grow and improve strategic relevance in the face of flat page-volume growth and declining margins. The case will be made with industry statistics and actual examples of business and application successes. |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Xplor Case Study
Ed Neumann, Senior Sales Representative, Automated Graphic Systems, Inc. Case Study: Variable Data for Membership Renewals & Membership Cards Use Variable Data to replace old time-consuming renewal order form with pre-populated forms reducing costs, timelines, response rates, and collection of revenue. |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Morning Break - Plantation Ballroom |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Xplor Speaker session
Paul Chirayath, Director of Sales, Anchor Software NCOA Link Opportunities How change of address can help reduce UAA mail for the USPS and generate incremental revenues for your company. |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Xplor Speaker session
Scott Pelletier, Client Executive, Exstream Software, Inc. Color Strategies: Adding Another Level of Personalization to Customer Communications A look at the benefits of a color personalization strategy, along with a few recent statistics and industry case studies. |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Xplor International Update
Paul LeTourneur, Xplor MidAtlantic Representative to the ABOD Updates for membership on ABOD activities and an overview of the upcoming Xplor Miami, Florida Global Conference & Exhibit activities. |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Wrap-up
Xplor Door Prize & Vendor Gift Drawings, and EDP Mentoring Session. |
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Future meeting dates |
Check the Xplor Mid Atlantic Region Web Site for meeting updates
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| Sept. 15-16, 2005 | Xplor Summer Regional Conference - Ocean City, MD | |
| Oct./Nov., 2005 | Xplor International VISION 2005 Conference - Orlando, FL | |
| Feb. 1-5, 2006 | 2006 - Xplor International Global Conference/GOA - Miami, FL | |
| Apr. 20-21, 2006 | Xplor Spring Conference - [location TBD] | |
| Sept. 14-15, 2006 | Xplor Summer Regional Conference - Ocean City, MD | |
"Xplor International is the worldwide association of the users and suppliers of the products and services that create, modify, and deliver customized information using a variety of document technologies." | ||
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[updated: 04/23/2005]