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Agfa-Gevaert Acquires dotrix

MORTSEL, BELGIUM—Agfa-Gevaert Group announced it has acquired the assets and staff of dotrix NV, a Belgian-based manufacturer of digital color printing solutions, from Barco NV for around six million Euros. Dotrix, which generated roughly five million Euros in sales for 2003, will allow Agfa to take a position in digital printing markets and gain larger access to industrial printing niches such as decoration, packaging and security printing, according to Albert Follens, a member of Agfa's board of management and general manager of graphic systems.