Next week, May 19–22, O’Neil Data Systems (ODS) will be hosting an HP-sponsored event at their Plano, Tex, facility, which will bring together vendors, customers, and printers from all corners of the digital printing ecosystem to see the company’s high-powered “data-driven publishing” in action, as well as showcase their own contributions to this expanding print market segment.

O’Neil Data Systems was founded in 1974 by William O’Neil, initially as an in-house print facility to produce custom publications for stock market investors. The publications were developed by O’Neil’s research company, founded 10 years earlier. “[O’Neil] got tired of printers because they couldn’t get it done right, so he started his own printing company,” said Jim Lucanish, President of ODS. Ten years later, in 1984, O’Neil launched Investor’s Business Daily, which is still published today, though is separate from ODS.

The company was founded in Los Angeles—and there is an irony in the fact that a company originally set up to serve stock market investors was based 3,000 miles from Wall Street—and in 2012 opened their geographically strategic 235,000-sq.ft. Plano facility to more quickly get materials into the mail stream to both East and West Coasts. The Plano facility boasts the full gamut of digital printing equipment, including the HP T400, HP T200, and Indigo 7500. The company has seamlessly linked the L.A. and Plano facilities, and jobs can be sent to the more strategic location.