Industry bodies
API Foils dispute resolved
Workers at packaging specialist API Foils have accepted a deal that ends three weeks of strike action over changes to contractual terms and conditions.
Two Sides slams Toshiba's National No-Print Day
Pro-paper and print campaign group Two Sides has called Toshiba's planned National No Print Day flawed and suggested it should be withdrawn.
IPIA conference addresses adaptations for digital era
The theme at this year's IPIA conference, named 'Don't sit down - I've moved your chair', was change.
The European player based in a stable: Imprint Digital
Imprint Digital has found that encouraging clients to submit correct PDFs and shunning the euro helped it compete on the export market
Wohlenberg adds three perfect binders to its product line
Perfect binder producer Wohlenberg has launched three news systems: Quickmax, Vento, Phoenix
QuadDirect upgrades Effingham direct mail facility
Quad/Graphics division QuadDirect this week announced the completion of a multi-million dollar upgrade of its Effingham, IL direct mail facility as it looks to adapt its production to better-targeted...
Xerox turns Drupa leads into sales
Following Drupa 2012, Xerox Global Graphic Communications president Jeff Jacobson has said that the company has started turning leads generated at the show into sales despite the tight economic...
Killer app: Howitt elected for London Mayor campaign job
Howitt, a subsidiary of Innovative Output Solutions, was recently awarded a contract to supply booklets to Londoners in the run-up to the London Mayor elections (3 May).
Typecraft merges with Marketplace Direct
Pittsburgh-based printers, TCP Printing (Typecraft) and Marketplace Direct are to merge as the consolidation wave in the US commercial printing industry moves beyond smaller family-owned firms looking...
Jeppesen migrates aviation chart printing to digital with HP T300
Englewood, COL-based Jeppesen, which makes charts, data and operational tools for the aviation industry, announced the installation of HP T300 Color Inkjet Web press as it transitions its oversize...
RR Donnelley to close Danbury plant
Leading US commercial printer RR Donnelley will close its printing plant in Danbury, CT and lay off 153 workers as it continues to streamline its print capacity.
Whittenburg finds niche in letterpress revival
Springfield, Tennessee-based Whittenburg Inc. is making a growing and lucrative business out of retrofitting older Heidelberg letterpresses to handle die-cutting.