Quad/Graphics

These apps are made available online at the Apple store, where Quad/Graphics clients can provide them for free or set their own sale price.

Commercial printing industry news briefs, including items on RR Donnelley, Worldcolor, IWCO Direct, Cenveo and more.

Quad/Graphics said sales slipped 2.8% to $403.6 million from a year earlier, while the three-month loss nearly doubled to $8.5 million from $4.5 million.

The thermal inkjet unit uses HP Scalable Printing Technology to integate four-color digital printing into traditional offset web press lines.

MONTREAL—The Canadian Minister of Industry has granted approval under the Investment Canada Act for the proposed acquisition of Worldcolor by Quad/Graphics, of Sussex, WI. The deal, which will be effected by plan of arrangement under the Canada Business Corporations Act, is subject to customary closing conditions for transactions of this type, including receipt of court and shareholder approvals.

Brown Printing announced that it has reached a five-year agreement with Hearst Magazines to produce and distribute five of the publisher's magazine titles: Food Network Magazine Esquire, Marie Claire, Popular Mechanics and Town&Country.

MENOMONEE FALLS, WI—Following the rejection of a company proposal to reduce wages, Arandell Corp. informed its 600 union workers that it was going to implement a 21 percent pay cut, television station TMJ4 in Milwaukee reported. A company spokesperson told the station that it had negotiated to the point of reaching an impasse.

The system executes precision 4-side trims and strip cuts without human intervention, reducing manpower and dramatically increasing efficiency.

Commercial printing industry news briefs, including items on Quad/Graphics, Worldcolor and Smith Litho.

HGI Co., a Burlington, WI-based commercial printer, and Quad/Graphics, one of the world's largest catalog, magazine, retail insert and direct mail printers, have entered into a strategic partnership.