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Saturday, July 4, 2009
PIA, Manroland Collaborate on Research, Training Printing Industries of America, Sewickley, Pa., and press maker manroland, Westmont, Ill., are furthering their partnership to include collaborative research and training activities. - July 01, 2009
KBA North America Names Ulrich Wicke Web Offset Sales VP KBA North America named Ulrich Wicke, KBA Group's former web offset sales manager for the Spanish and South American markets, to the position of vice president of sales and service for the web offset division in North America. Heinz Schmid, web offset sales vice president for 30 years, remains with KBA North America in an advisory capacity. - July 01, 2009
'USA Today' Contract to Expire at Award-winning Printer Gannett notified the Johnson Newspaper Corp. that it will not renew its contract to print USA Today at The Daily News, Batavia, N.Y., after June 30. For reasons of economy rather than quality, it will print copies at its own Rochester Democrat and Chronicle for distribution in Western and Central New York, southern Ontario and northwest Pennsylvania. - June 30, 2009
Snyder Takes the Helm at PAGE Cooperative Effective July 1, PAGE Cooperative General Manager John Snyder will become the newspaper purchasing cooperative's CEO. Outgoing CEO Chuck Berky will remain in an advisory capacity as founder and CEO emeritus for the next 12 months. Snyder's assistant, Technical Services Director Steve Schroeder, will become general manager. - June 29, 2009
Harland Simon at Work in U.S., U.K. Pressrooms Harland Simon, Milton Keynes, England, and Oak Brook, Ill., completed its first Mediaman press controls upgrade last month with no production interruption at The Forum, Fargo, N.D. In England, it also extensively reconfigured controls for Archant's expansion/consolidation and will replace controls for Harmsworth Printing's Derby print site. - June 29, 2009
AdSend Adds Dalim Twist for Preflighting AdSend now offers integrated preflighting utilizing Dalim Twist with its browser-based ad sending and receiving service. Preflighting scans advertisers' PDF files for hundreds of items that might prevent them from printing properly, including missing fonts, RGB, LAB color space, transparencies, spot color in CMYK files and image resolution. - June 29, 2009
Protecmedia Installs Large System for German Group Publishing group Rhein Main (VRM) will be the first in Germany to install Milenium Cross Media, the multi-channel editorial system from Madrid-based Protecmedia, in January 2010. Specifications are completed and version 6.5 implementation is under way to create a media-convergent environment for at least 400 editorial staffers. - June 25, 2009
XChange UK Releases FlightAlert XT for QuarkXPress 8 XChange UK and ThePowerXChange.com have released FlightAlert XT for QuarkXPress 8, combining on-the-fly error checking of XPress documents with a powerful collect-for-output engine. - June 24, 2009
Atex Creates Global Product Management, Marketing Team Atex has formed a new Global Product Management and Marketing team, announced it is using Scrum and agile software development, and started user advisory groups and CEO forums "to develop stronger connections with new and existing Atex customers by engaging them in dialogue about strategies and products." - June 24, 2009
Goss to Install New Universal XL in Italy Italy's Union Printing will take delivery in July of a new-generation Goss Universal press to provide quality coldset printing of supermarket flyers and inserts, as well as editorial publications, at lower costs. The doublewide, one-around Universal XL was developed to meet demand for smaller circulations of high-pagination products. - June 22, 2009
E&P's 'Production All-Stars' Slide Show
Each year, E&P's Production All-Stars honor managers who are tops in op's. Here we present a gallery of winners from our event in Tampa, Fla., on Sept. 24 during the International Newspaper Group's annual conference at the Grand Hyatt Tampa Bay Hotel. We'd like to thank our sponsors, Goss International, AGFA, and Baldwin Technology, for their continued support.
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