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The votes are in. The YouTube community has chosen three winners from the top ten entries in the video competition "Be unbeatable. Be a Speedmaster." based on the number of likes. Spanish print shop Cevagraf SCCL came first with 664 likes, closely followed by Kawagraf Embalagens Brazil in second place with 597 likes.

Commercial Printing Industry News Briefs from Printing Impressions’ July 2014 edition, including Sheridan Books, Evolution Impressions, Heidelberg, Gallus, InnerWorkings, Pacemaker Press, Ennis Inc., Zoo Printing and Graphic Packaging.

When it comes to variable data work, digital printers are the ones doing touchdown dances. And on the long-run end of the spectrum, offset printing still reigns supreme. But in the realm of short-run, static work, where digital and offset both frolic, there is harmony in the versatility of being able to use one production process or the other.

Nestled between O'Hare International Airport and Chicago in Harwood Heights, IL, FCL Graphics has been pumping out printed products for more than 40 years—and at the same address, no less (although it has expanded). Even amidst an uncertain future for print, the company's roots have remained firm. But its success has been centered around its ability to bend and grow with the market. These days, it's almost essential that a printer offer a menu of ancillary services in order to thrive. FCL does just that.

Commercial printing industry supplier company and personnel news from Printing Impressions’ July 2014 edition, featuring SunDance Marketing Solutions, Taylor Graphics, Photo Cru, The McClung Cos., American Greetings, MBM Packaging Labs and Prisma.

As part of an agreement with Heidelberg USA, Mac Papers is now the exclusive distributor in the Southeastern United States for Heidelberg’s Saphira line, including plates, computer-to-plate technology and coatings. The deal continues the expansion of Mac Papers’ wide-format and graphics division and underscores the company’s commitment to becoming the premier partner for the commercial print industry’s needs.

Heidelberg supplies a comprehensive range of UV options, fulfilling the need for integrated solutions designed to promote maximum curing with the minimum amount of energy necessary to satisfy the requirements of the application.

PORTLAND, OR—Wright Business Graphics (WBG) has acquired substantially all of the assets of Sunset Press, headquartered in Kent, WA.

Initiated in September 2013 with a goal of attaining a 30 percent performance increase, Heidelberg's Performance Plus program has enabled Contemporary Graphic Solutions of Pennsauken, NJ, to sustain significant increase in productivity per month on the company’s Speedmaster XL 105 6+L.

HEIDELBERG, GERMANY—Heidelberg has achieved its key goal of making an annual profit. The net profit for financial year 2013/2014 was € 4 million (previous year: € -117 million). The next step is to secure the Group's sustained profitability in the years ahead by expanding growth segments, implementing portfolio measures and introducing structural cost projects.