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Binding and finishing news from Printing Impressions' September 2010 edition, including items on Napco, UniGraphic and Binding Industries Association.

Commercial Printing News from Printing Impressions' September 2010 edition, including items on Olympus Press and Lawrence Printing.

Heidelberg customers report practical experience with Prinect Inspection Control corroborates the InterTech judges’ findings and demonstrates the labor-saving applications of this breakthrough technology.

Thirty nationally-recognized companies are sponsoring the Printing Industries Alliance’s upcoming 2010 Franklin Event to date. More than 500 senior executives from the printing, advertising, publishing and graphic sectors are expected to attend the popular annual gala scheduled for Wednesday, September 29.

"Functional" here means properties that enhance the print medium, such as new decorative, visual, electrical and electronic functional characteristics. Research work is currently devoted to new applications and includes effects with structural coating and special optical effects in 3D.

OFFENBACH, GERMANY—While some pundits believe now is the appropriate time and financial atmosphere for a merger between two or more of the printing industry's major offset press manufacturers, the participants involved aren't buying into that philosophy. Well, at least not all of them are game.

Struggling printing press maker Heidelberger set out a future as an independent manufacturer, backed by the firepower of a 420 million euro rights issue and the prospects of recovery from improving currency trends.

In Tuesday's Handelsblatt newspaper, Koenig & Bauer CEO Helge Hansen publicly wooed manroland while ruling out any interest in a deal with the larger, heavily indebted Heidelberger.

Incoming orders in the first quarter totaled EUR 786 million, boosted by the high level of orders placed at the Ipex trade show and encouraging business developments, especially in China and Brazil.

PITTSBURGH—August 04, 2010—Detailed information has been released about the six technologies recently selected to receive a 2010 InterTech Technology Award from Printing Industries of America.An independent panel of judges deliberated over technology nominations which ranged from software solutions to press consumables and printing systems. Great strides in technology were demonstrated in inkjet, Web-to-print, plate processing,…

Druckerei Kern reports far shorter makeready times, only half the waste, stable production speeds, quiet, smooth sheet travel, and extremely high net speed.