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NEW YORK CITY—Printing Industries Alliance (PIA) will hold its 2008 Franklin Event on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 (5:30-9:30 pm, note new extended closing time) at Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers, New York City. Delivering the news to a room of more than 50 top industry executives at Manhattan’s famed Friars Club on May 15th, PIA President Tim Freeman noted that more than 500 CEOs and senior executives from the printing, advertising, publishing and graphic arts related sectors are expected to attend. Last year’s gala was standing room only. “Our entire Board of Directors congratulates this year’s honorees,” said PIA Vice Chairman Ted Hansen

DUSSELDORF, GERMANY—May 15, 2008—Press-sense today announced that their Business Flow Automation (BFA) technology and solutions have been warmly received by the print industry’s major players and will be displayed on at least nine different stands at the upcoming Drupa 2008 trade show. Drupa visitors will be able to see Press-sense technology on the following stands (in alphabetical order) • Drupa Innovation and Technology Parc (Hall 7, Stand H7); • Hewlett Packard (Hall 8A Stand B26); • Horizon International (Hall 13, Stand B35); • Kodak Print on Demand Solutions stand in the JDF Parc (Hall 7, Stand J7); • Océ PRISMAweb; (Hall 6, Stand A44);

Kodak’s Graphic Communications Group has made a contribution of $85,000 to the New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity (NOAHH). The contribution provides funding to build a house in an area that was devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Kodak employees and customers were invited to volunteer to help build the new home. Wausau Paper has opened a new East Coast distribution center in Allentown, PA, enabling it to offer overnight and same day delivery service to a geographically broader group of customers across the region. As a result of its acquisition of Stora Enso North America, NewPage Corp. has taken steps to restructure and streamline

ROCHESTER, NY—April 30, 2008— PODi, the Digital Printing Initiative, announces it is accepting speaker submissions for the 2009 PODi AppForum. The annual event is January 19-21 in Las Vegas at The Rio Casino and Resort. Each year, hundreds of print service providers, marketing practitioners and other professionals attend the AppForum to take advantage of its unique educational and networking opportunities. All selected presenters receive one free registration to the 2009 PODi AppForum, so they can also take advantage of the educational sessions. “A major attraction of the AppForum is the user-focused nature of the sessions. Our attendees count on learning new ideas and innovative

Over 600 delegates from 28 countries were present at the IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe event last week in Dresden - the industries largest event on the topic. The event featured the IDTechEx Printed Electronics Awards in recognition of outstanding achievement. The awards were given at the gala dinner on April 7th. The categories and winners are: 1) Technical Development Device Award Winner: LG Displays 2) Technical Development Manufacturing Award Winner: Hewlett Packard and PowerFilm Solar 3) Technical Development Materials Award Winner: Ciba 4) Best New Product Development Award Winner: PolyIC 5) Best Commercialization Award Winner: GSI Technologies 6) Printed Electronics Europe champion: Wolfgang Mildner,

PALO ALTO, CA—April 10, 2008—HP today announced the 2008 HP Indigo Progressive Print Competition, which will showcase the high-end color and image quality capabilities of its industry-leading HP Indigo commercial presses and liquid HP ElectroInk. The contest is open to all HP Indigo commercial press users and will include best-of-category prizes for marketing collateral, photo specialty, direct marketing and publishing applications, as well as an “other” category for special, innovative and inspirational entries. First-, second-, and third-prize winners in each category will be announced at HP’s Gala Dinner for commercial customers at drupa on June 3, and many contest entries will be on display

On Demand Not Quite as In Demand BOSTON—The calendar read March, but many of the exhibitors at the On Demand Exposition were already feeling the gravitational pull of the Drupa 2008 international print show still to come in late May. Some went so far as to scale down their booths, but the more prevalent impact was a dearth of new product introductions. This year, major announcements are being made at special pre-Drupa media events or being saved for Düsseldorf, Germany. One exception was Canon U.S.A., which introduced the imagePRESS C6000VP and C6000 digital color press models as lower volume, more affordable versions of the

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL—HP began its pre-Drupa Press and Analyst Summit here March 9-12, hosting more than 100 journalists, analysts, partners and customers to an unveiling of several new technologies and products. In HP’s most extensive graphic arts push to date, the pre-Drupa rollout included the introduction of the HP Ink-jet Web Press, Latex Inks, SmartStream Digital Workflow Portfolio and three new Indigo digital presses. These latest offerings—which span high-speed ink-jet production and liquid electrophotographic printing, as well as wide-format printing—will debut (excluding the web press) at Drupa in HP’s mega booth in Hall 8A. Causing quite a stir among the debuted products was

IN ARIZONA, only one commercial sheetfed printer has a reputation for being “traditionally innovative,” and that’s Phoenix-based O’Neil Printing. Claiming that this business philosophy has made all the difference for the company’s success in the last century, the staff at O’Neil has never lost touch with the basic foundation that William “Bucky” O’Neil set into motion in 1908—going above and beyond for his customers and employees, and keeping an ongoing commitment to the innovative use of technology. “When William O’Neil decided to open O’Neil Letter Shop in 1908, there wasn’t much in terms of business in Phoenix at that time,” notes Tony Narducci, president

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL—March 10, 2008—HP today announced a landmark release of graphic arts technologies and products that improve the speed and reduce the cost of digital printing. The rollout – the company’s most extensive graphic arts push to date – supports HP’s Print 2.0 strategy to capture more digital pages from the analog print market and enable printing customers to take advantage of new market segments and business opportunities. Spanning high-speed inkjet production, offset- and photo-quality liquid electrophoto-graphic printing as well as large-format printing, the new offerings will be featured at drupa, the world’s largest printing equipment exhibition, in HP’s booth in