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West Canadian News Archive
Irene Price assumes the role of President of West Canadian
March, 2005
George Brookman is pleased to announce that Irene Price will assume the role of President of West Canadian Industries Group effective April 1st, 2005. Irene has been with West Canadian since 1985 and has been a major factor in the growth of the company. She has held the role of Executive Vice-President for the past nine years.
Mr. Brookman will remain actively involved in the business but will be spending an increasing amount of time on his duties with the Calgary Stampede
West Canadian operates Digital Print Services in Calgary, Edmonton and Ft. McMurray
Commonwealth Legal is Canada's largest national litigation support service
Vistek West is a major Camera & Photofinishing retailer in Calgary.
West Canadian is a proud sponsor of the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation Run for the Cure
October, 2005
West Canadian would like to thank everyone for supporting the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation Run for the Cure on Sunday October 3, 2004. With over 170,000 participants Canada wide, this year's event was a huge success raising over $19.2 million for breast cancer research and awareness programs.
Calgary's race took place at Eau Claire market with 12,500 registered participants and raised $1.3 million. West Canadian was there to take complimentary team photos, pass out balloons and distribute cookies. We would like to share some of the photos taken that day.
West Canadian Promotional Videos
View our three new promotional videos promoting our services. Document scanning, Personalized print and Outsourcing.
West Canadian, Kodak Take 50-Year Friendship to New Heights...
After decades as a customer, West Canadian Becomes an Authorized Reseller of KODAK Products.
September 29, 2004
ROCHESTER, NY, and CALGARY, AB, August, 2004 - Eastman Kodak Company announced today that West Canadian, a leading Alberta-based digital imaging centre, has become an authorized reseller for Kodak's document imaging products.
Founded in 1952 as West Canadian Graphic Industries Ltd., a service bureau in Calgary, West Canadian has owned and operated KODAK Micrographic Equipment from the start, and when digital imaging systems evolved, the company chose to own and operate Kodak's high speed production scanners and document archive writers.
"For our high volume scanning operations, we have always preferred KODAK High Speed Scanners," said Irene Price, executive vice-president, West Canadian. "Their document handling is excellent, which is very key to a service bureau, as is the image quality. When we saw the new KODAK i600 Scanners launched this year at AIIM, we were totally impressed and decided it was time not just to buy one of those for our operation, but to give our clients all of the options available - a well rounded mix of products to suit what's best for their application and need."
"We are always pleased to welcome an enthusiastic new reseller," said Roger Cunningham, Operations and Channel Development Manger, at Kodak Canada in Toronto. "In this circumstance, it's even more exciting because West Canadian speaks with the knowing and confident voice of a longtime customer who processes more than 50,000 pages per day. Not only will they put our equipment in their catalog - they'll bring customers right into their shop to see our scanners operate first hand. 'Innovation you can count on' - live and in person."
Today, West Canadian offers a complete range of digital reproduction services including graphic and web design, large format digital printing, microfilm and scanning, imaging equipment sales and repair. As well as being an owner and reseller of Kodak's document imaging equipment, West Canadian's Print Services group is also proud to offer Print On Demand service from a newly installed NEXPRESS 2100 Digital Production Colour Press - product of NexPress Solutions, a Kodak Company.
We feel we're more rounded from a production standpoint, with Kodak's high speed scanners," Price concludes. "We want to show our customers what they can do with Kodak's document imaging equipment, too."
About Eastman Kodak Company and info imaging
Kodak is the leader in helping people take, share, print and view images - for memories, for information, for entertainment. The company is a major participant in infoimaging, a $385 billion industry composed of devices (digital cameras and flat-panel displays), infrastructure (online networks and delivery systems for images) and services & media (software, film and paper enabling people to access, analyze and print images). With sales of $13.3 billion in 2003, the company comprises several businesses: Health, supplying the healthcare industry with traditional and digital image capture and output products and services; Graphic Communications Group, offering on-demand color printing and networking publishing systems consisting of three wholly owned subsidiaries: Encad, Inc., NexPress Solutions, and Kodak Versamark; Commercial Imaging, offering image capture, output and storage products and services to businesses and government; Display & Components, which designs and manufactures state-of-the-art organic light-emitting diode displays as well as other specialty materials, and delivers imaging sensors to original equipment manufacturers; and Digital & Film Imaging Systems, providing consumers, professionals and cinematographers with digital and traditional products and services.
For more information, visit www.kodak.com/go/docimaging online.
Kodak and NexPress are trademarks of Eastman Kodak Company.
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West Canadian is Growing Again
This time by opening an Edmonton location. The new West Canadian store will open for business on January 2004.
The Edmonton location will offer the same services as the Calgary store does including CAD printing & plotting, documents scanning, digital colour printing, large colour posters and banners and litigation copying and scanning.
The Edmonton store will be opened Monday to Friday from 7:00 am until 11:00 pm.
For more information phone (780) 424-1000.
Free Desktop Access to Million Dollar Printing Technology
It's the best of both worlds. Businesses of any size now have free 24 hour desktop access to the world's best in digital printing technology with West Canadian Industries' new Heidelberg Nexpress 2100.
George Brookman adds press to high-end print operation
George Brookman, owner of West Canadian Graphics, stands besides his new $1 million Heidelberg NexPress digital press, which is capable of producing 2100 pages per hour and is the only one of its kind in Calgary. Read the recent article from the Calgary Herald.
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WC Installs NexPress 2100 Digital Colour Press
West Canadian a $15 million company with over 150 employees has installed a NexPress 2100 Digital Colour Press. Remarked Tim Flaman, Vice-President, Sales and Marketing at WC, The NexPress delivers the quality, registration, and substrates expected from our most demanding customers...."
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