Flagship Press expands with Screen high-speed inkjet 

Flagship Press, Inc. (North Andover, MA) has purchased the Screen (Rolling Meadows, IL) Truepress Jet520 roll-fed inkjet press designed to print full-color images and text using variable data...

Kodak partners with DMA on VDP 

Kodak (Rochester, NY) has entered into a relationship with the Direct Marketing Alliance (Daytona Beach, FL) to assist printers in building their digital print businesses...

LA printer adds Mitsubishi Diamond press 

Digital Room, Inc. and U-Printing Network (Los Angeles), a pioneer in digital printing and online printing, has installed a four-color Mitsubishi (Lincolnshire, IL) Diamond 3000S sheetfed press with aqueous coater...

Sir Speedy of Naperville grows with Canon 

Canon Business Solutions (Burlington, NJ), a subsidiary of Canon USA, announces Sir Speedy of Naperville, IL, has implemented the Canon imagePRESS C7000VP digital color production press to improve its short-run and variable data printing services...

Retired KBA president Bolza-Schuenemann visits U.S. printers  

This May, Dr. Hans Bolza-Schuenemann, retired company president of Koenig & Bauer AG (Wurzburg, Germany; Williston, VT), visited major press installations and significant customers of KBA North America...

Sun Chem to increase global pigment prices 

Citing a dramatic spike in raw material, energy and transportation costs, Sun Chemical Corp.’s (Parsippany, NJ) Performance Pigments Division has announced it will increase global pigment prices on average by 10 to 30 percent effective July 1, 2008...

HP names preferred Indigo substrates  

HP (Palo Alto, CA) has signed preferred media partner agreements with several leading North American and European paper suppliers to expand the capabilities and advantages of HP Indigo digital press solutions...

SFI to host annual conference in September 

The Sustainable Forestry Initiative Inc.'s (SFI) “2008 Annual Conference: From Forest to Store Shelf,” will explore the role of SFI certification in meeting and encouraging market demand throughout the supply chain...

Print 09 show themed ‘myPRINT’ 

PRINT 09 will bring printing industry professionals from around the world to Chicago from September 11-16, 2009....

Quad/Graphics to invest $25M in direct mail services 

Quad/Graphics (Sussex, WI) is investing $25 million to strengthen and expand its direct mail services through its QuadDirect division...

KBA moves HQ to Dallas 

Ifolor AG inks first order for multiple Xerox iGen4s 

Xerox Corporation (Rochester, NY) announces Ifolor AG, a photo and print lab based in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland, has agreed to purchase multiple Xerox iGen4 digital presses...

Mohawk joins Climate Leaders in reporting emissions 

Mohawk Fine Papers Inc. (Cohoes, NY) has successfully completed EPA base year reporting requirements for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Climate Leaders program....

IWCO Direct receives USPS and safety awards  

IWCO Direct (Chanhassen, MN) has received a “Corporate Business Achievement Award” from the U.S. Postal Service. In addition, the firm has been recognized as an “Industry Safety Leader” by the Envelope Manufacturers Association (EMA). ...

E&M is first in U.S. to install Rilecart DP-4500 

E&M Bindery & Finishing (Clifton, NJ) recently became the first U.S. company to install an inline, fully automatic punching and wire-o book-binding Rilecart DP-4500 line....

Book printer chooses DI press for covers 

Presstek, Inc. (Hudson, NH) announces Canadian book printer Friesens Corp. has chosen the Presstek 52DI digital offset press to print covers for its Book and Yearbook divisions....

Quebecor World to sell European operations to HHBV 

Quebecor World Inc. (Montreal) has signed a definitive purchase agreement providing for the sale of Quebecor World’s European operations to Hombergh/De Pundert Group (HHBV), a Netherlands-based investment group...

Domtar launches new website for printers, designers 

Targeted to designers and printers, Domtar’s new website, www.makingpaperfun.com, provides an easy-to-use paper reference with educational materials designed to be intriguing, inspirational and resourceful...

Pantone approves two Oce production color printers  

Oce’s (Trumbull, CT) VarioStream 9240 and ColorStream 10000 color production printing systems, supported by Océ Prisma workflow software, have been approved for use of PMS colors and the Pantone Goe system colors...

EFI debuts new version of Fiery Central Workflow  

EFI debuted the latest version of EFI Fiery Central at drupa 2008. The modular PDF-based production workflow, management and makeready solution was displayed on the Canon stand and the EFI stand. ...

Sun Chem partners with Fogra 

Sun Chemical has signed a partnership contract with Fogra, the graphic technology research association based in Munich, Germany, to contribute to the association’s activities in the certification of offset print shops according to Process Standard Offset (PSO)....

CIP4 awards 2008 CIPPI winners 

During drupa, the International Cooperation for the Integration of the Processes in Prepress, Press and Postpress (CIP4) Organization announced the winners of the 2008 CIP4 International Print Production Innovation (CIPPI) Awards...

Electrostatic and UV innovations 

Eltex (Rhein, Germany) specializes in electrostatic systems for higher product quality in the printing and finishing processes...

Grand format photorealistic flatbed printing 

Gandinnovations (Mississauga, Ontario) will launch the grand format NanoJet UV flatbed digital printer at Drupa. It is specifically designed to produce photo-realistic quality outputs...

New midrange stitcher from Muller Martini 

Muller Martini (Hauppauge, NY) will be presenting a new machine family for the midrange performance segment: the Primera saddlestitcher...

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