AFP Consortium Appoints New President
Master Inventor and principal software engineer Dennis Carney of Ricoh brings nearly 30 years of printing industry experience and standards expertise to the role
BOULDER, CO—(April 8, 2025) – The Advanced Function Presentation (AFP) Consortium, an international consortium of print industry stakeholders working together to further enhance the AFP document architecture, has named Consortium secretary and treasurer Dennis Carney of Ricoh as the organization’s new president. The Consortium’s former president, Jack Condon of Ricoh, has stepped down from the role in anticipation of his retirement.
“In my eight years as President of the AFP Consortium, I have been both honored and humbled to lead such a remarkable group of people, industry experts all focused on continuing to improve the AFP architecture for AFP customers around the world,” Mr. Condon said. “I am delighted that our board chose Dennis to lead the Consortium going forward. He brings his years of AFP experience and his passion for this great architecture to the leadership role. Dennis’ attention to detail and expert knowledge will serve the AFP Consortium well in the years ahead.”
"Given the excellence of the previous presidents of this organization, I am very honored to be accepting this role,” Mr. Carney said. “In particular, I thank Jack very much for all I have learned from him, and I hope I can live up to his exemplary accomplishments as president; he made the job look easy, and I know quite well that it is not.”
A principal software engineer at Ricoh, Mr. Carney has spent nearly 30 years in the printing industry, working in the printing groups of organizations that originated AFP: IBM, InfoPrint Solutions Company, and Ricoh. He has actively participated across all areas of the AFP Consortium since its formal inception in 2009. His work on industry standards within the Consortium, the CIP4 Organization, and the Printer Working Group includes ownership of all eight AFP architectures and co- and primary authorship of many standards. He is an IBM- and Ricoh-recognized Master Inventor with 24 U.S. patents and was awarded the CIP4 Fellow award in 2023.
Mr. Condon dedicated his career to working with AFP and associated printer technologies, after being part of the team that originally developed the platform in the early 1980s. During his career, he has held various positions within AFP product development, professional services, marketing, and management.
Mr. Carney will retain his responsibility as Consortium secretary and treasurer in his new appointment.
For more information, visit https://www.afpconsortium.org.
About AFP and the AFP Consortium
Advanced Function Presentation (AFP) is a document architecture that offers performance, manageability, and integrity benefits meeting the needs of large volume, variable data applications. AFP technology has historically been leveraged for the production of mission critical documents such as bills, statements, and policies and contains methods for job ticketing, effective server-based resource management, and the powerful Intelligent Printer Data Stream (IPDS) for total output integrity. In addition to being a rich, self-contained native document language, AFP is also a powerful container architecture capable of bringing full resource and production management capabilities to bear on encapsulated formats such as PDF and TIFF.
The AFP Consortium is an international open standards body consisting of over 30 companies committed to the continued development of the AFP architecture. Since 2004, the organization has developed open standards for accurate and consistent ICC-based color management, high-speed complex text, page group recovery within high-volume production, the IS/3 interchange set for compliance, and metadata support for AFP Archive and future applications, such as accessibility features. The AFP Consortium will continue in its role to grow and maintain the complete set of AFP architecture.
To see a full list of the AFP Consortium's members and learn more about the organization, visit the website: https://www.afpconsortium.org/.
BOULDER, CO—(April 8, 2025) – The Advanced Function Presentation (AFP) Consortium, an international consortium of print industry stakeholders working together to further enhance the AFP document architecture, has named Consortium secretary and treasurer Dennis Carney of Ricoh as the organization’s new president. The Consortium’s former president, Jack Condon of Ricoh, has stepped down from the role in anticipation of his retirement.
“In my eight years as President of the AFP Consortium, I have been both honored and humbled to lead such a remarkable group of people, industry experts all focused on continuing to improve the AFP architecture for AFP customers around the world,” Mr. Condon said. “I am delighted that our board chose Dennis to lead the Consortium going forward. He brings his years of AFP experience and his passion for this great architecture to the leadership role. Dennis’ attention to detail and expert knowledge will serve the AFP Consortium well in the years ahead.”
"Given the excellence of the previous presidents of this organization, I am very honored to be accepting this role,” Mr. Carney said. “In particular, I thank Jack very much for all I have learned from him, and I hope I can live up to his exemplary accomplishments as president; he made the job look easy, and I know quite well that it is not.”
A principal software engineer at Ricoh, Mr. Carney has spent nearly 30 years in the printing industry, working in the printing groups of organizations that originated AFP: IBM, InfoPrint Solutions Company, and Ricoh. He has actively participated across all areas of the AFP Consortium since its formal inception in 2009. His work on industry standards within the Consortium, the CIP4 Organization, and the Printer Working Group includes ownership of all eight AFP architectures and co- and primary authorship of many standards. He is an IBM- and Ricoh-recognized Master Inventor with 24 U.S. patents and was awarded the CIP4 Fellow award in 2023.
Mr. Condon dedicated his career to working with AFP and associated printer technologies, after being part of the team that originally developed the platform in the early 1980s. During his career, he has held various positions within AFP product development, professional services, marketing, and management.
Mr. Carney will retain his responsibility as Consortium secretary and treasurer in his new appointment.
For more information, visit https://www.afpconsortium.org.
About AFP and the AFP Consortium
Advanced Function Presentation (AFP) is a document architecture that offers performance, manageability, and integrity benefits meeting the needs of large volume, variable data applications. AFP technology has historically been leveraged for the production of mission critical documents such as bills, statements, and policies and contains methods for job ticketing, effective server-based resource management, and the powerful Intelligent Printer Data Stream (IPDS) for total output integrity. In addition to being a rich, self-contained native document language, AFP is also a powerful container architecture capable of bringing full resource and production management capabilities to bear on encapsulated formats such as PDF and TIFF.
The AFP Consortium is an international open standards body consisting of over 30 companies committed to the continued development of the AFP architecture. Since 2004, the organization has developed open standards for accurate and consistent ICC-based color management, high-speed complex text, page group recovery within high-volume production, the IS/3 interchange set for compliance, and metadata support for AFP Archive and future applications, such as accessibility features. The AFP Consortium will continue in its role to grow and maintain the complete set of AFP architecture.
To see a full list of the AFP Consortium's members and learn more about the organization, visit the website: https://www.afpconsortium.org/.
