GRAPH EXPO & CONVERTING EXPO 2004 PREPRESS & PREMEDIA -- Exhib

BY MARK SMITH

Technology Editor

Among the more notable, prepress-related developments at Graph Expo and Converting Expo 2004 were several things that didn't happen.

It was a simple matter of timing that kept Presstek Inc. from having anything new to report regarding its bid to acquire the business and assets of the A.B.Dick Co., according to Ed Marino, president and CEO. A.B.Dick's future continued to be in the hands of the Bankruptcy Court since it had filed for Chapter 11 protection. Marino still expected a favorable decision to be rendered by the end of October, since no other formal bids had been entered as of the show's opening day.