April 1, 2008

Feature Articles

Networked solutions

Apr 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Denise Kapel

The PrintCity Alliance hosted a pre-Drupa media summit in picturesque Tegernsee, Germany, this February. The group announced its new theme and plans for...

How low can you go?

Apr 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Katherine O'Brien & Debora Toth

Makereadies have been drastically reduced over the past few years. Thanks to ink presets, automatic plate changing and other innovations, it's possible...

Big boxes

Apr 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Katherine O'Brien

Welcome to the future, said Bernhard Schreier, Heidelberg CEO, greeting journalists at the vendor's new packaging showroom in Wiesloch, Germany. The future...

Productivity push

Apr 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Katherine O'Brien

Komori (Rolling Meadows, IL) Drupa display will include eight offset presses ranging in size from the small format Spica 529P to the System 38S 16-page...

Crossing the finish line

Apr 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By AP staff

Just over a year ago, Spiral of Ohio, based in Cleveland, OH, and Action Bindery of Norcross, GA, near Atlanta, rebranded themselves as Finish Line Binderies....

No going back

Apr 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Denise Kapel

Not many people want to deal with a startup company anymore, says Gary Crescenze, president and CEO of Delmarva Printing (Salisbury, MD). But when another...

Columns

Making the green scene

Apr 1, 2008 12:00 PM, Katherine O'Brien KOB@americanprinter.com

Two years ago, I invited AMERICAN PRINTER readers to share their stories of environmental stewardship. Mercer Color (Coldwater, OH) was among the first...

Birth of a salesman

Apr 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By M. Richard Vinocur

After I sold some directory ads as an editor, the bosses asked me to move over to sales full time. I was reluctant, but several other editors suggested...

Customers, in-plants & other competitors

Apr 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Dick Gorelick

Competition isn't necessarily confined to other commercial printers. This is a complicated subject. It's impossible to do justice to this scenario in...

All is fair in love, war and printing

Apr 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Steve Johnson

Amazon.com has announced that any books printed on demand must be printed by Amazon itself if the book is to be made available via the Amazon Web site....

Making hickeys an endangered species

Apr 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Raymond J. Prince

How many hickeys are allowed in a printed piece? For today's buyer, the answer is easy: none. Years ago, there were internal company standards for dark...

inREGISTER

Apr 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Katherine O'Brien

Editor's Picks features selected highlights from AMERICAN PRINTER's InRegister newsletter. InRegister is published on alternating...

Industry News

President Bush visits ColorCraft of Virginia

Apr 2, 2008 10:31 AM

President George W. Bush toured and gave brief remarks at PIA/GATF member company ColorCraft of Virginia in Sterling, VA, this week. Bush highlighted the effect that the recently passed economic stimulus package would have on ColorCraft and its employees....

100 Words or Less: How does an MIS facilitate obtaining all of the operational information needed to run a print business?

Apr 1, 2008 12:00 PM

A print MIS such as Avanti's acts as the information hub of the shop automatically sending and receiving data from different software applications and...

Trelleborg acquires MacDermid Offset Printing Blankets

Mar 27, 2008 9:39 AM

Through its Trelleborg Engineered Systems business area, Swedish Trelleborg has entered into an agreement to acquire the operations of MacDermid Offset Printing Blankets (Denver), part of MacDermid Inc...

Presstek mourns founder Williams

Apr 1, 2008 12:00 PM

Presstek Inc. (Hudson, NH) extends condolences to the family and friends of Dick Williams, of Plaistow, NH, who died this week at the age of 73, after...

UPM, Time to receive conservation award

Feb 27, 2008 5:26 PM

Kathy Abusow, president and CEO of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative, has presented the first-ever SFI Leadership in Conservation Award to ...

Pace partners with LithoTechnics

Feb 27, 2008 5:05 PM

Pace Systems Group, Inc. (Jacksonville Beach, FL) has partnered with LithoTechnics to integrate their respective products...

And the winners are printers A & C

Apr 1, 2008 12:00 PM, Michael Casey

The buyers were given 14 choices, but five floated to the top and great customer service was way out in front as the No. 1 reason. Who says there is a...

Tidbits

Apr 1, 2008 12:00 PM

H.S. Boyd Co. has been appointed the exclusive agent in the United States for the Inline Offset Cutting (IOC) system by Kocher and Beck. Thomas G. Chubb,...

April 2008 People News: Printing

Apr 1, 2008 12:00 PM

Edmund Young has been named vice president of field sales for Heidelberg (Kennesaw, GA). David Padgett has been promoted to environmental, health and...