Offset, Digital Vendors Select Dance Partners –Michelson

To me, an even more intriguing agreement was the March 1 announcement that 
RR Donnelley—North America's largest printing concern, with 2010 global sales that surpassed $10 billion—has licensed its Apollo piezoelectric digital inkjet printing technology to web and sheetfed offset press manufacturer KBA, which will be integrated into digital press offerings that KBA plans to debut at Drupa. According to Tom Quinlan, 
RR Donnelley president and CEO, the coupling combines R&D resources totalling nearly 1,000 engineers and imaging scientists. The new press designs will be geared toward the packaging, commercial, securities and newspaper segments, and will reportedly also enable RR Donnelley to expand its capabilities into new print markets. No further details of this new cooperative agreement were available at press time.