Quad/Graphics

SUSSEX, WI—About 100 employees, mostly in administrative positions throughout Quad/Graphics’ Wisconsin workforce, were let go due to the economy’s impact on the printer. According to Claire Ho, marketing communications director for Quad, the length of the economic slump necessitated the move. “The downturn in the economy appears to be longer than anyone previously anticipated, and so we’re being proactive in how we address what’s happening in the economy and our industry,” Ho says. “The reductions were tough, but necessary, and we opted to do them all on one day to minimize disruption to employees and the business. Now, we can be focused on serving

TSK Names HBSI as U.S. Distributor PLAINFIELD, IN—TSK (Tokyo Shuppan Machinery) and TSK America announce the appointment of Hines Bindery Systems (HBSI), based here, as the exclusive U.S. and Canadian distributor of TSK’s line of perfect binders, gathering machines, tipping systems and three-knife trimmers. The firm’s “flagship” adhesive binders are the TMA-18, TMA-21 and TMA-24, rated at up to 10,000 books per hour. TSK also provides proprietary sensors, monitors and quality-control devices for its gatherers and binders, and for retrofitting to existing systems. According to TSK officials, HBSI was selected as the company’s exclusive distributor in the United States and Canada due to its

SUSSEX, WI—About 100 employees, mostly in administrative positions throughout Quad/Graphics’ Wisconsin workforce, are being let go due to the economy’s impact on the printer. According to Claire Ho, marketing communications director for Quad, the length of the economic slump necessitated the move. “The downturn in the economy appears to be longer than anyone previously anticipated, and so we’re being proactive in how we address what’s happening in the economy and our industry,” Ho said. “The reductions were tough, but necessary, and we opted to do them all on one day to minimize disruption to employees and the business. Now we can be focused on

SUSSEX, WI—Quad/Graphics and its Warsaw-based holding Winkowski are investing $35 million into the latter’s operations to obtain, among other things, press conveying, stacking and palletizing systems, multiple press cover production systems and several polywrapping machines. The company, which has operated under Quad’s majority ownership since last December, will be called QuadWinkowski. Tom Frankowski, a 29-year…

SUSSEX, WI—Quad/Graphics is investing $25 million to bolster its direct mail services division, QuadDirect. The outlay includes new digital and offset presses, high-speed envelope inserters and commingling machinery, as well as significant upgrades to its Pewaukee, WI, plant. The facility will be transformed into a state-of-the-art, direct mail production facility, including a digital pressroom. QuadDirect’s gain is a loss for its West Allis, WI, facility. The printer scrapped plans for a 192,000-square-foot addition at West Allis, after studies revealed it would cost more than originally estimated due to soil conditions that would require additional foundation work for the building, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.

NEW YORK—The ex-forklift operator at Quad/Graphics escaped a prison sentence when he was sentenced to probation after cooperating with the government in its investigation into a $6.7 million insider trading case that involved stolen stock tips from a magazine printed by the Sussex, WI-based printer. A federal judge here gave Juan Renteria two years of probation, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Renteria’s cooperation helped the government prosecute “more culpable defendants,” according to Judge Richard Howell, the paper reported. Renteria, who was ordered to forfeit $5,000 in illegal profits, provided pre-published copies of BusinessWeek magazine from Quad’s Hartford, WI, plant to individuals who traded

SUSSEX, WI—Quad/Graphics is investing $25 million to bolster its direct mail services division, QuadDirect. The outlay includes new digital and offset presses, high-speed envelope inserters and commingling machinery, as well as significant upgrades to its Pewaukee, WI, plant. The facility will be transformed into a state-of-the-art direct mail production facility, including a digital pressroom.At the…

Standard Acquires Veitch READING, PA—Standard Offset Printing has purchased Veitch Printing and Veitch Digital Partners for an undisclosed amount of cash, according to the Lancaster (PA) Intelligencer Journal. The deal creates a company with a potential for annual sales of $25 to $30 million. NewPage Going Public MIAMISBURG, OH—Coated paper manufacturer NewPage Group is planning an initial public offering, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The Associated Press reports that the offering price may be as much as $805 million. Some NewPage stockholders will sell shares as part of the IPO. Impact Obtains ZipSort MINNEAPOLIS—Direct mail marketing specialist Impact

THE YEAR was 1958. A 14-year-old named Bobby Fischer wins the U.S. Chess Championship. Willie O’Ree is the first African-American to play in the National Hockey League. The U.S. Air Force loses a hydrogen bomb off the coast of Savannah, GA, and it’s never found. Poet Ezra Pound is ordered to be released from an insane asylum, and “that book by Nabokov” (“Lolita”) is published in the United States. And, in Philadelphia, a 34-year-old man named Irvin Borowsky published the first issue of Printing Impressions. The industry, this magazine—indeed, our nation and world—have undergone dramatic transformations over the last 50 years. Our publication, just

SCHAUMBURG, IL—Building on the decision last year by the PIA/GATF and Web Offset Association (WOA) to merge an annual event geared toward sheetfed offset printers into their venerable WOA conference and rename it Offset and Beyond, the program covered even more topics beyond lithography this year. These included new features for the more than 600 attendees, including a Saturday jump-start series, a “green printers” showcase and a student outreach program. In addition, new all-day targeted sessions were hosted by Tom Quinn, director of fulfillment services at the Mailing & Fulfillment Service Association, and by Julie Shaffer, director of the Digital Printing Council, on the