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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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