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FujiFilm North America Reorganization: A Few More Details

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 ...

Yes, They’re Your Father’s Litho Clubs: But Why Aren't They Yours, Too?

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Litho Clubs are alive and...well, hanging in there as gamely as any membership organization can be expected to do in these difficult days. Time hasn’t been kind to the printing industry’s once-thriving communities of small clubs and groups—the ones that operated mostly locally, often with a focus on a particular business ...

“Workplace Gossip? Keep It to Yourself”

Friday, November 27th, 2009

The rumor mill. The grapevine. The drum. Call it what you will, but it’s as much an aspect of working life as job descriptions or performance evaluations. And when workplace gossip is permitted to spiral out of control, it can be one of the nastiest. The subject doesn’t come up much ...

Heidelberg Restructures Revamping Services Division

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 ...

Presstek Sells Lasertel

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: ...

Virtual Press Clips: Print Firms in the News

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

“To be considered knowledgeable in the fields of printing, one needs a working knowledge of most of the following processes: letterpress; lithography; photo-lithography; dry, web, and sheet-fed offset photolithography; rotary and sheet-fed gravure; silk screen; collotype; copper plate or engraved printing; thermography; and as well, a command over the common ...

Canon and Océ: More Details

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 ...