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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Ferag Polystream Live in Liverpool for Four Months Ferag's first PolyStream packaging line went into production at Prinovis Liverpool last fall as part of field-testing. Foil-wrapping plays a key role at the large rotogravure printer, especially in relation to magazines and supplements produced for News International. Forty million foil-wrapped bundles are shipped each month from the facility. - February 08, 2010
New Flexo Plate Analyzer from Sibress Sibress, Vahrn, Italy, has introduced FlexoControl, a convenient analyzer for end-to-end quality assurance and analyses of flexo platemaking parameters. FlexoControl was developed for fast, precise measuring of plates and film. The portable analyzer measures all halftones on flexo plates with resolutions of 80 to 216 lpi. - February 08, 2010
WRH Marketing do Brasil Names Indingaro CEO WRH Marketing do Brasil, headquartered in São Paulo, has named Brazilian printing industry expert Massimo Indingaro as CEO. WRH Marketing do Brasil also covers the entire Latin American market. The Ferag AG affiliate has had its own branch office in Brazil since last fall. - February 05, 2010
Number of North American Eco-friendly Papers Up by 157% The number of leading environmental printing and writing papers made in North America more than doubled, from 97 to 228, in the past 18 months, according to information released today by Canopy, a Canadian non-profit organization working to improve the environmental performance of paper and wood companies. - February 04, 2010
Managing Editor Inc. Releases vjoon K4 Version 6 Publishing Software developer Managing Editor Inc. has released version 6 of vjoon's K4 cross-media publishing platform. Version 6 features increased support for cross-media input and output, task-based workflow, more options for remote users, and enhanced flexibility in its architecture. - February 03, 2010
French Group's Plants Rely on Ferag Technology Using Ferag technology, France's Groupe Riccobono has configured its new printing centers -- Midi Print, Ouest Print and Paris Offset Print -- so that an immediate response is possible to any customer demands, including late conversions from large to small formats using in-line trimmers. - February 03, 2010
Goss Sells, Supports Akiyama Presses in North America Goss International has integrated within its U.S. operations Tokyo-based Akiyama International Co.'s North American organization, assuming responsibility for sales and support of Akiyama products, including Jprint sheetfed presses, in the United States and Canada. - February 02, 2010
Glunz & Jensen Outlines its Role for CTP in Singapore Glunz & Jensen signed an agreement with Singapore Press Holdings Ltd. through Agfa Graphics to upgrade the complete prepress production at SPH Print Centre in Singapore with 10 automated lines of online computer-to-plate processors, punch/benders and central stacking systems. - February 02, 2010
EPG Named Exclusive Distributor of Colortronix Systems Essex Products Group, maker of KeyColor integrated ink control systems, was named exclusive worldwide distributor of job-presetting and color-scanner interface systems from Colortronix LLC. The agreement expands EPG's ability to serve printers who use other manufacturers' ink-control systems or color-measurement equipment. - February 02, 2010
'N.Y. Times' Regionals Using Tecnavia to Create e-Editions Tecnavia Press Inc. signed an agreement whereby NewsMemory electronic editions of the New York Times Regional Media Group newspapers will be made available to the public. The roll-out will include nine of the g;roup's 14 dailies, with the remaining properties to follow. - February 01, 2010
Goss International Promotes Navarre to Senior VP Goss International has promoted Jacques Navarre to senior vice president of sales, marketing and product management. Navarre, who has more than 30 years' experience in the printing industry, most recently heading Goss sales in Europe, where Jean Segura succeeds him. Dick Schultz remains senior vice president of global sales. - February 01, 2010
Kodak Expands Plate Production in China In response to the growing plate demand in the Asia-Pacific region, Kodak is opening a second production line for its printing plate plant in Xiamen, southeastern China. While the expansion will further serve customers in region, the second manufacturing line will produce CTP plates for other regions with certain plates. - February 01, 2010
Big News International Site to Trial Q.I. Press Controls' IDS Q.I. Press Controls received an order from News International printing division Newsprinters, Broxbourne, England, where one manroland Colorman XXL press line will be equipped with Q.I. Press Controls' Intelligent Density System for closed-loop color-density control, in order to evaluate the benefits. - January 29, 2010
Atex CMS Supports iPad, Kindle Ates announced that its content management system supports publication to e-readers and tablet devices, including Apple's iPad and Amazon's Kindle. Media companies can utilize existing Atex system to exploit these technologies to publish content without custom development or additional operating costs. - January 29, 2010
Agfa Upgrades Prepress in Singapore in Big CTP Sale Agfa Graphics will upgrade all prepress production at Singapore Press Holdings' Print Centre, installing 10 high-speed Polaris XCV-S platesetters with automated Glunz & Jensen punch-benders and online central stacking system, making it one of the largest newspaper CTP sites. The deal includes a two-year supply of N92v violet plates. - January 29, 2010
Three Lee Enterprises Sites Upgrade Harland Simon Systems Harland Simon has been upgrading its press-control and Prima management systems at Lee Enterprises' Northwest Indiana Times, Munster, Quad City Times, Davenport, Iowa, and North County Times, Escondido, Calif. The first two sites were completed last month, and Escondido will be completed early next month. - January 29, 2010
Moreland Named President of Manugraph DGM Manugraph DGM has named a new president, promoted three other executives, and consolidated its parts operations in Pennsylvania. - January 28, 2010
Harland Simon Updates Systems at Plants in Italy Italy's Centro Stampa Poligrafici has placed orders with Harland Simon, Milton Keynes, England, to update the Prima system hardware and software for the Goss HT/Uniliner presses at its production facilities in Bologna and in Florence. - January 28, 2010
Fleck Returns to GMI on AVT Sales Team Advanced Vision Technology, supplier of automatic optical inspection and quality-assurance systems for printers, has appointed William Fleck to the AVT/GMI sales team, with responsibility for all AVT products, including those for newspapers, from Illinois and Wisconsin Washington state and British Columbia. Fleck previously had been with GMI. - January 27, 2010
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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