Monday, November 30th, 2009
Today I spoke with Camilla Jenkins, Vice President of Corporate Communications for Fujifilm about the company’s recent announcement of the creation of FUJIFILM North America Corporation, which will merge FUJIFILM U.S.A., Inc. and FUJIFILM Graphic Systems U.S.A. Inc effective January 1, 2010. FUJIFILM Canada Inc. will become a subsidiary of ...Thursday, November 26th, 2009
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen has announced a decision to restructure the company effective April 1, 2010. The new corporate structure will create three divisions: Heidelberg Equipment, Heidelberg Services, and Heidelberg Financial Services. Heidelberg has been hit hard by the economic downturn which has reduced demand for offset presses in its core markets. Before ...Monday, November 23rd, 2009
Reading the Presstek press release about Lasertel brought to mind a few questions. Here they are, and Presstek’s responses are included: WTT: Over what period of time do you estimate that $2 million in lasers will be consumed? Presstek: It represents only one type of the MEPS [Editor’s note: ...Thursday, November 19th, 2009
Océ management conducted a well-attended press teleconference today to provide further details of its acquisition by Canon. Jan Hol, who was interviewed earlier by WhatTheyThink, was on the line from Europe, and North America was represented by Mal Baboyian, president, production printing systems, Océ North America, and Joe Skrzypczak President and CEO of Océ North America. Océ ...Thursday, November 19th, 2009
Citing evolving customer preferences J.C. Penney plans to stop printing its "big book" catalogs. The press release from the company states, Increasingly, catalog shopping has converged with online and in-store shopping as customers view catalogs as “look books” and inspiration sources for their in-store and online purchases. In response to ...Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
The ISO Technical Committee overseeing graphic technology standards (ISO TC 130) has put out a call for experts for a new task force investigating Carbon footprinting in the printing and publishing industry. The task force was formed at a meeting held on October 26th in Beijing. The task force will be ...Monday, November 16th, 2009
Kodak issued a statement two weeks ago saying “Prinergy is alive and well and fully supported by Kodak” after a blog post at Prepress Pilgrim painted a gloomy picture of mass layoffs and product abandonment. DJ's update Ten Reasons Why Prinergy is Still Dead was simply spreading fear, uncertainty and ...
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