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This week’s edition of IPP Online brings you the hot news that Canon has made an offer to acquire Netherlands’ based digital equipment and press manufacturer Océ. The offer by Canon to buy all the shares of Océ is expected to go through sometime next year.

Kodak has signed on to become the first sponsor for the IPP XII Conference on Marketing Strategies for Direct Mail, Transpromo and Digital Printing being held in Mumbai on 19 December 2009. To get an idea of the issues that will be discussed at the IPP XII conference, please have a look at our article on Mega Calibre since this is a company that is not only in the direct mail and transpromo business but has a clear idea on where it is headed and what are the challenges it faces.

From what we can understand it is absolutely crucial not only for digital printers to understand transpromo but also to cr eate a platform from where they can create awareness of the possibilities and directly influence the potential end user verticals and their ad agencies, media planners and marketing communication professionals. These are the people who we need to get into the IPP XII conference. You can find out more about this event and also register for it at www.ippstar.org.

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Till next week, Naresh Khanna editor@ippgroup.in