Commercial Printing Industry : Year in Review

Also around this time Koenig & Bauer AG (KBA) mourned the loss of longtime president Dr. Hans-Bernhard Bolza-Schunemann, who died at the age of 84. He had more than 250 patents to his credit and played a large role in numerous technological advances for the press manufacturer.

Vistaprint’s controversial third-party membership discount programs received the seal of approval by the U.S. court of appeals, which affirmed a lower court’s 2009 dismissal against the online printer and two of its third-party merchants. The lawsuit alleged that Vistaprint violated the Electronic Funds Transfer Act, among others, in conjunction with third-party membership discount programs that Vistaprint offered customers on its Website. But, the court sided with Vistaprint in finding that the site’s pages and discount programs were clearly written and not deceptive.