Quad/Graphics

The TouchRegister module can be added on to QuadTech's Web Viewing System to enhance print quality and productivity. The system enables fast and accurate register setting for CI flexo presses.

Quad/Graphics Inc. announced that company co-founder and long-time board member Betty Ewens Quadracci died Dec. 9 at her home in Wisconsin. Recognized as the matriarch of Quad/Graphics, Mrs. Quadracci co-founded the company in 1971 with her late husband, Harry V. Quadracci.

SUSSEX, WI—Quad/Graphics Inc., a global printer and media channel integrator, has elected Dr. Kathryn Quadracci Flores, M.D., to its board of directors, effective Dec. 13. Dr. Flores filled the board seat formerly occupied by her mother, Betty Ewens Quadracci, who died Dec. 9 at age 75.

Tempt In-Store Productions, a Quad/Graphics co., will be installing the world’s largest sheetfed press, a KBA Rapida 205 superlarge-format press, at its New Berlin, WI, facility, next year. "This new KBA press will allow Tempt to provide a new level of options for retailers and marketers seeking the broadest range of in-store marketing solutions from a single-source supplier," said Joel Quadracci, Quad/Graphics chairman, president and CEO.

Dr. Kathryn Quadracci Flores, M.D., has been elected to Quad/Graphics' board of directors. Dr. Flores fills the board seat formerly occupied by her mother, Betty Ewens Quadracci, who died Monday, Dec. 9, at age 75.

SUSSEX, WI—Quad/Graphics Inc. announced that company co-founder and long-time board member Betty Ewens Quadracci died Monday at her home in Wisconsin surrounded by family and close friends. She was 75 years old.

Betty Ewens Quadracci, who co-founded Quad/Graphics Inc., along with her late husband, Harry V. Quadracci, in 1971, has passed away at the age of 75. "As a co-founder of this company, Betty shared Harry’s passion for creating a company like no other," Joel Quadracci noted. "Truly, Betty is a big reason why Quad/Graphics is here today."

MILWAUKEE—Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) is a driving force behind an amendment to the postal reform bill that would temper large postal rate increases for bulk mailers, the Milwaukee Business Journal reported.

Catalogers and magazine publishers in 2013 faced many of the same challenges as the prior year of finding the right mix of media to deliver information and build their brands. In addition, economic uncertainty and pending postal increases were thrown into the pot to create a stew of questions.

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is certainly not doing the direct mail space any favors, requesting an exigent rate increase of 4.3 percent. With postage taking up the better part of 60 percent from the direct mail marketing spend, there's less and less meat on the bone. But the USPS has its own problems, and thus far nothing Postmaster Patrick Donahoe has done could spur Congress into addressing the issue of postal reform.