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Xplor International
Xplor International is the international trade association specifically focused on the issues of ‘transaction documents’.
‘Transaction documents’ refers to the printing or electronic presentation of documents that consist of a mixture of fixed and variable data. Common examples of transaction documents are
- bills
- statements (bank, credit card, financial services, etc.)
- insurance policies
- notices
- correspondence, etc.
Nearly every household in North America and other developed regions around the world receives dozens if not hundreds of such documents a year. These documents traditionally are delivered through the postal services in each country, but a small (in comparison) but growing number of such documents are also now delivered through the World Wide Web.
Because transaction printing is so heavily dependent on the amount and quality of the variable data on the documents, the ‘transaction document’ industry has evolved somewhat separately from the more traditional commercial printing and Graphic arts industries – although as time goes on, the same technologies (especially on the hardware side) are being shared by all. This ‘convergence’ has been the topic of discussion in the industries for a number of years.
Founding and Initial Mission
Because of the difference in emphasis on variable data, Xplor International was founded in 1980 as a trade association specifically for transaction document applications. Originally a user group for the Xerox 9700 laser printer – the first high speed, cut sheet, duplex laser printer – Xplor International reshaped its mission in the early 1980s to address the entire transaction document industry. Hardware companies like IBM, Siemens (later Océ), Hewlett Packard, Pitney Bowes, Böwe Bell + Howell, etc., and software companies like Image Sciences (later Docucorp International), Document Sciences, Cincom, GMC, Exstream, Xenos, Crawford Technologies, etc. supported Xplor in order to promote a venue for the issues that are unique to the creation of transaction documents.
Mission Shift
In the 1990s, Xplor began to shift from solely document “printing” to document “printing and presentation”, as more and more transaction documents came to be presented on the Web.
Xplor Membership
Xplor’s membership of users and vendors is world-wide, with approximately 45% of the membership in the early 2000s being outside the US.[1]
Xplor International Conference and Exhibit
Xplor had an annual conference and exhibit which provided the bulk of its revenue; however, the last such conference and exhibit was in 2004 in Dallas, Texas. Because of a number of issues including the dot.com bust in 2000 and 2001, the fact that the 2001 Conference and Exhibit was only 7 weeks after 9/11, and the slow recognition that the industry trend was to have far fewer hardware-intensive exhibit events because of the extreme expense to the vendors, Xplor canceled its 2005 Conference and Exhibit.[2] Xplor co-located its 2006 and 2007 conferences with Graphics of the Americas (GOA) in Miami, and co-located its conference with AIIM/OnDemand in Boston in 2008.
Xplor Document University
Xplor is currently promoting its vision of the ‘Xplor Document University’, a series of programs focused on the education of the industry professional, as opposed to the traditional trade show. The EDP (Electronic Document Professional) designation is a core part of the Xplor mission, and the EDP Commission is currently working on expanding the scope of the professional designation process to provide more value to the transaction document industry.
Associations in Related Fields
AIIM International, the association for electronic content management
ARMA, the association for records management professionals
EDSF, the Electronic Document Systems Foundation (a charitable foundation providing scholarships and research in the various printing-allied fields)