Xitron Strengthens Its Support and Engineering

A Xitron product story

Edited by the Printingtalk editorial team Jan 20, 2006

Xitron has added extra personnel to its support services and engineering departments.

Xitron has added extra personnel to its support services and engineering departments.

Bryan Drewry, has joined Xitron as a support specialist, and Douglas Boenke as a systems engineer.

They will be based at Xitron's headquarters in Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA).

Drewry comes to Xitron after more than 20 years in production, including the past six years with Print-Tech, a US commercial printer and Xitron customer, where he served as the pre-press manager.

Prior to Print-Tech, Drewry was a pre-press technician, pre-press manager and service bureau manager with several Michigan-based firms.

His expertise extends to a range of pre-press software products and output devices, including digital proofers, on-demand systems, film imagesetters and CTP systems.

He worked with Xitron's Navigator and Xenith products during his tenure in production.

Boenke has 20 years' experience as a systems engineer in embedded processing, peripheral device control, user interfaces and small to mid-size operating systems.

Much of Boenke's career was spent with Saline, Michigan-based American Broadband, an engineering research and development company.

Bret Farrah, Xitron's vice president for support services, said: "Xitron has made a commitment to our dealers and end-users to provide world-class service and support.

Adding a specialist with extensive and recent production experience is part of our initiative to approach issues from the customer's point of view." And Steve Phillips, Xitron's vice president of hardware engineering, added: "To meet our customers' growing demands for more advanced systems it was necessary to increase our engineering staff.".