Eight vendors to sponsor DocuWorld 1998
Xerox (Rochester, NY) has announced the eight sponsors of its 1998 DocuWorld initiative, which offers application-focused educational programs on networked digital printing. Adobe (San Jose), Colorbus (recently acquired by Atlanta-based Colorstar), Electronics for Imaging (EFI, San Mateo), INSCI (Westborough, MA), Moore Corporation (Toronto), Rochester Software Associates (RSA, Rochester, NY), Splash Technology (Sunnyvale, CA) and Sun Microsystems (Palo Alto, CA) will each play a major role in presenting more than 50 DocuWorld events in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America from May to December. "DocuWorld is the premier event of its type," said Dr. E. Ted Prince, INSCI chairman and CEO. DocuWorld's focus on the future of printing and its integration with software systems and the Internet "is precisely where INSCI plays." The DocuWorld initiative, which attracted 68,000 attendees last year, "empowers our users, from business professionals in the enterprise to graphic artists, to create impactful content using digital documents," added Eric Bean, director of product management for Adobe's Printing and Systems Division. "DocuWorld has been a great means for us to get direct customer feedback and first-time exposure in regions where we previously never had a presence," offered Colorbus CEO Thomas White. Four events will anchor the DocuWorld series: in Toronto and San Francisco May 12, 13 and 14; in São Paulo May 13 and 14; and concurrent with IPEX '98 in Birmingham, U.K. from Sept. 22 though 30.