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Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Premier Graphics is being sold under a “uniform commercial code sale” by GE Capital, which is foreclosing on the business and liquidating the assets. Premier Graphics consists of five print facilities: The Argus Press (Niles, IL), The Jones Company (Chattanooga, TN), McQuiddy Classic Press (Nashville, TN), Saint Clair Press (Indianapolis, ...
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
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At PMA 2010, the trade event for “everything photo,” Mohawk Fine Papers announced the acquisition of LabPrints, a developer of workflow software and services for professional photographers and photo labs. “Wait,” you say, “a paper company bought a software company?” In search of clarification, I spoke to Bart Robinson, Mohawk's ...
Posted in Printing Industry News, Software | 1 Comment »
Monday, February 15th, 2010
(Editor note: see the update and link at the bottom of this post.)
The 2010 Winter Olympic Games started off with a bang on Friday evening, February 12. From the beginning, printing and the 2010 Olympics have been closely linked!
In January 2003, George Kallas, President of Metropolitan Fine Printers and printer ...
Posted in Community Service, Print Service Provider Spotlight, Printing Industry News | 5 Comments »
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
(Edited for clarification)
On January 7, Reuters reported that Heidelberg is looking for a digital printing partner, according to Handelsblatt, a German business newspaper. Heidelberg is considering both a joint venture and/or a stake purchase in a digital printing company, including Kodak NEXPRESS and others.
Posted in Digital Printing, Printing Industry News | 7 Comments »
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
It’s winter in Sault Saint Marie, MI, along the U.S./Canada international border; what else is there to do but shovel snow?
Word "czars" at Lake Superior State University (LSSU) "unfriended" 15 words and phrases and declared them "shovel-ready" for inclusion on the university's 35th annual List of Words Banished from the ...
Posted in Satire, Social Media | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
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Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
Breaking news!
NEW YORK—According to a report published this week in American Journalism Review, 93 percent of all newspaper sales can now be attributed to kidnappers seeking to prove the day's date in filmed ransom demands.
"Although the vast majority of Americans now get their news from the Internet or television, a ...
Posted in Newspapers, Satire | 10 Comments »