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Virtual Press Clips: Print Firms in the News

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

Since 2003, the Monaghan family has been using a children’s book they created to raise money for the fight against sarcoma—a deadly form of cancer that took the life of the life of Brian J. Monaghan, age 34, in 2002. He and his father, John Monaghan, were co-owners of International ...

InterACT 2010 Conference highlight for In-plants

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

InterACT 2010; Social Media Do Not Change Marketing Basics The synergistic and integrated use of traditional print, online, social, and mobile media was the theme of the newest conference InterACT held in Rosemont, Illinois near O’Hara airport August 10-11. This was very much of a series of basic “how to” presentations and ...

Report Says Social Media is a “Time Suck”

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

As I write this, I have my laptop on my lap and I am listening to the TV and writing this story. Next to me Sherri is harvesting her crops in FarmVille. We jokingly debate whose habit is more of a waste of time. She says that watching TV is ...

Lawsuit Hits Print Company Exec Pursuing U.S. Senate Seat in Wisconsin

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

Running a small print services company is tough. Running for high public office against a richer opponent is tougher. Now imagine trying to do both under pressure from a civil lawsuit by an unhappy business partner. That, according to press reports, is the can of worms confronting Dave Westlake, a co-owner ...

JAQK Cellars: Wine from A “Press” in More Ways than One

Friday, August 6th, 2010

Joel Templin, Craig MacLean, and Katie Jain, founding partners, JAQK Cellars; David Dees, national sales manager. Last night, in a tasting at a wine boutique on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, the creators of a new line of premium wines from the Napa Valley made their first bid for attention ...

RISO/Kodak Deal Adds New Dimension to Inkjet

Friday, August 6th, 2010

Today, RISO announced that it had expanded its relationship with Kodak to offer customers the RISO ComColor cut-sheet inkjet printer as a complementary solution to its high-speed production VERSAMARK line.  The ComColor has been somewhat in a class of its own in the world of inkjet, at 150 ppm and with a ...

Printing Industries Alliance Declares “Major Victory” for NYS Printers as State Budget Passes with Critical Tax Exemption Retained

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

New York State’s budget was 125 days late when it finally was passed on Tuesday, but it contained something that printers throughout the state considered well worth waiting for: their continued exemption from the sales and use tax on printed and mailed promotional materials. Printing Industries Alliance (PIA) said that ...