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Thursday, December 10th, 2009
Following a “watchdog” article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel written by Daniel Bice claiming that the Institute for Graphics and Imaging (IGI) had all kinds of dire problems and was poorly managed, I contacted Ron Dahl, the executive director, and Joel Quadracci, one of the Board members to find ...
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Monday, December 7th, 2009
Online retailer Zappos.com is adding a printed catalog as part of their customer retention and new customer acquisition strategy reports the New York Times.
The catalog titled Zappos Life is in its 3rd edition, with the first two version labeled “tests.”
Aaron Magness, director for brand marketing and business development at Zappos.com ...
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Friday, December 4th, 2009
UK's daily tabloid newspaper The Sun has released an advertisement touting the printed version over its electronic cousins.
The Sun has been the UK's best handheld for 40 years. Top news, sports, photos, gossip and games in an easy-to-share format. No waiting for pages to load, no contract, no losing reception. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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: ...
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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 ...
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