CHICAGO—RR Donnelley and KBA AG, of Wuerzburg, Germany, announced an agreement to develop, manufacture and sell next-generation inkjet printing solutions for the packaging, securities, commercial and newspaper segments. Under the terms of the agreement, RR Donnelley will license its Apollo and other piezoelectric imaging technologies to KBA, which will incorporate them into its press offerings.
Donnelley will license its Apollo and other piezoelectric imaging technologies to KBA, which will incorporate them into its press offerings. The companies will develop, manufacture and sell inkjet printing solutions for the packaging, securities, commercial and newspaper segments. “It’s more than a sales and service agreement for existing technology,” said Helge Hansen, CEO of KBA.
Differences in the inkjet imaging systems now being employed can have an impact—to varying degrees and relative to each other—on head cost, failure rate and cleaning/maintenance requirements; substrate flexibility; print resolution; color saturation; print width; and more. It doesn't quite rise to the level of an apples to oranges comparison, but the technology has very distinct flavors.
An RR Donnelley plant here has given 60 days' closure notice to its employees, a move that will leave 177 workers without jobs, according to the Greeley Tribune. The workers were told of the decision during a Feb. 9 meeting, and the plant is expected to permanently close its doors on April 11.
There's been a flurry of announcements recently regarding sales, distribution and pooled R&D resource agreements between several of the leading lithographic and digital press manufacturers. And, as the dance partners pair up, the mammoth Drupa 2012 exhibition in Germany will likely serve as the "dress-up ball" where these technology collaborations between traditional offset and digital press manufacturers culminate in a rousing crescendo of new developments.
Donnelley will print, bind and drop ship 100 percent of Woman’s World’s production and will also serve the publisher’s printing and related needs for Life & Style Weekly magazines distributed throughout the Southeast region. Both titles are produced weekly.
RR Donnelley will produce L.L.Bean’s full-line and specialty catalogs, including its outdoors/sporting and home titles, as well as produce package inserts that ship with ordered products. It will also provide list processing and co-binding services and draw on the organization’s logistics resources to deliver co-mail services.
RR Donnelley Norwest will close its Greeley (CO) printing plant within 60 days, putting 177 workers out of a job, according to a company statement and current and former employees. The employees were notified of the shutdown during a mandatory meeting Wednesday morning at the plant, 259 30th St. in southeast Greeley.
“The corporate people came in and the HR people were there, and they handed out the severance packages,” said a man who has a relative who works at the plant. Because of the sensitivity of the subject, he asked not to be identified.
GREELEY, CO—An RR Donnelley plant here has given 60 days’ closure notice to its employees, a move that will leave 177 workers without jobs, according to the Greeley Tribune. The workers were told of the decision during a meeting Wednesday morning.
NPC (News Printing), the pride of Claysburg, PA, can also stake its claim as king of the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) hill for the second straight year after being named the top winner in the GPO Top 50 list of print suppliers. (Only the Top 10 appear below.)
