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Commercial printing industry supplier company and personnel news from Printing Impressions’ April 2012 edition.

Attendees of the 2012 International Sign Expo looking for ways to increase their product offerings and increase profit potential should stop at the Agfa Graphics booth (#1036). The Agfa Graphics "Application Zone," at the 2012 International Sign Expo, will offer a comprehensive showcase of real-world applications that creatively demonstrate unusual inkjet output.

DALLAS—To help solve customer challenges, FedEx Office is accelerating investment in its infrastructure by adding additional commercial production equipment. The company is deploying new grand-format inkjet printing devices to its centralized production centers across the country for producing rigid signs, banners, posters, point-of-purchase materials, oversized prints and more. Also, it is expanding its workforce by hiring more team members.

FedEx Office is deploying new Agfa Graphics’ Jeti 3020 grand-format inkjet printing devices and, effective March 1, it will serve as Boeing’s primary print provider, producing critical operations, sales and large/grand-format printed materials. The printers will be installed at its centralized production centers across the country.

The Print Industries Market Information and Research Organization (PRIMIR) recently announced the officers and members of its 2012 Executive Committee. Eric Frank, vice president of marketing, KBA North America, was elected as the organization's chairman. A graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Frank has more than 25 years of printing industry experience and is active in a number of industry associations.

Who could have imagined only three years ago you’d be able to access all relevant management information from your printshop by using an app on a smartphone? Or, allow your clients to view, annotate and approve jobs on their iPads?

Twenty of the printing industry’s foremost suppliers have signed on as sponsors for the upcoming Vision 3 Summit to be held Feb. 19-22, 2012, at the Marco Island Marriot in Marco Island, FL. The second-annual executive leadership conference has the theme “Focus Your Vision on Transformation and Growth.”

COSTA MESA, CA—Digital and sheetfed offset printer Primary Color has purchased a new Agfa/Thieme M-Press Tiger, a hybrid configuration that combines four-color digital inkjet printing with an in-line silkscreen unit. It is reportedly the only hybrid machine in North America with an optional in-line screen printing unit that can print primers, varnish, spot color or gold, silver and white inks, as well as thermal scratch-’n-sniff inks, with no loss in productivity.

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