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An Ink Saving Typeface?

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

Dutch marketing and communications company Spranq has developed a typeface they claim can save up to 20 percent of ink costs by reducing the amount of ink used on a page. Here's what it looks like: the developers say: The Ecofont is developed by SPRANQ, based on a hunch of Colin Willems. We ...

A combined 3,300 positions eliminated at UPM, Stora Enso

Monday, September 15th, 2008

FOLIO has the story on the elimination of a combined 3,300 positions at UPM and Stora Enso. UPM plans to cut 1,600 jobs between 2009 and 2010 as part of a reorganization. Stora Enso announced plans for a reorganization which it said would eliminate 1,700 positions.

NewPage Planning IPO

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

NewPage Group Inc has filed a registration statement with the SEC yesterday proposing initial public offering of its common stock: NewPage Group Inc. is the parent company of NewPage Corporation. NewPage Corporation, headquartered in Miamisburg, Ohio, is the largest coated paper manufacturer in North America, based on production capacity, with more ...

California Bad Dreamin’: Panelists at WOA “Offset and Beyond 2008” Urge Printers To Get Ready for Low-VOC Solvents

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Coming, maybe, to your state: air-quality rules mandating the use of press solvents containing no more than 100 grams of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) per liter. Coming, perhaps, to your pressroom: problems you didn’t anticipate with s-l-o-w press washups, funky residues, and strange chemical side effects such as “tearing” (as in ...

“Poor Richard” Looking for More Paper Variety

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Richard Dannenberg, owner of the AlphaGraphics in Macon, Georgia wrote a blog post yesterday on the diminishing variety of papers offered by paper manufactures and distributors. Dannenberg recalls an order from a customer who wanted to use “Old Money,” a line of stationery, made from recycled U.S. dollar bills produced by ...

The Paperless Home

Monday, February 11th, 2008

Is the use of paper used within our homes on the decline? Today's New York Times article Pushing Paper Out the Door provides a some clues to the diminishing use of paper in the home: Going paperless was a conscious decision by the Uhliks. But many families may be closer to ...

International Trade Commission Rejects Tariffs on Chinese Paper

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

The United States International Trade Commission (ITC), the quasi-judicial independent federal agency responsible for investigating matters of trade has determined coated free sheet paper from China, Indonesia, and Korea does not injure U.S. Industry. In a new release, the ITC states, "U.S. industry is neither materially injured nor threatened with ...