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Premier Print Holdings, Operating as Premier Graphics, in Liquidation

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, ...

Disrupting the Power of Print

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

A version of this post is going out to subscribers of the Economics and Research Center newsletter. (What? You don't subscribe? Well then, be sure to sign up here.) It contains excerpts from the forthcoming book Disrupting the Future by Dr. Joe Webb and myself. Watch for the announcement of ...

Pazazz Printing to Restructure

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Pazazz Printing has filed a Notice of Intention to restructure the company under Canada's Companies Creditors Arrangement Act. President Warren Werbitt says, “Pazazz file a Notice of Intention to preserve and maximize the value of the business.” WhatTheyThink spoke with Warren this afternoon and he was upbeat and is making ...

Punch Graphix Hosts Trade-Media Open House

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

A Xeikon 8000 digital press in operation at the world headquarters of Punch Graphics in Belgium. Seeking a higher profile for Xeikon digital presses and its other print market technologies, Punch Graphix today opened the doors of its international headquarters in Liel, Belgium, to a contingent of more than 70 print ...

Briefings in Brussels Give Technical Preview of IPEX 2010 (continued)

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Today’s briefings continued with a presentation by Kodak, which operates a technical center nearby the conference site. John O’Grady, Kodak’s managing director for Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, spoke of the company’s comprehensive portfolio of solutions, both digital and analog, for the printing, publishing, and packaging markets. Chris Payne, director ...

Briefings in Brussels Give Technical Preview of IPEX 2010

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Four exhibitors at IPEX—Atlantic Zeiser, EskoArtwork/Enfocus, Kodak, and Punch Graphics—are giving previews of their show plans at a combined media briefing taking place today and tomorrow at a conference center near Brussels, Belgium. Among those presenting today are Atlantic Zeiser and EskoArtwork/Enfocus. In this morning’s lead-off presentation, Oliver C. Mehler, CEO, ...

Printing Trade Show Postponement Is Said to Provoke “Kiwi Outrage”

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

The U.S. isn’t the only country where some soul-searching—and some hand-wringing—is being done about the future of graphic arts trade shows. Print21online, an online journal for the printing industry in Australia and New Zealand, reports “Kiwi outrage” over the postponement of Printech, New Zealand’s quadrennial printing trade show, from 2010 to ...