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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

WHILE SERVICE bureaus and data centers will tell you that the concept of TransPromo (putting a marketing message on a statement) has been around for decades, there has been a sudden surge of interest in stepping up its use. During 2006, TransPromo full-color digital output represented only 1.62 billion equivalent images in North America. This is a very small base, but InfoTrends expects this output to experience a CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 91 percent to reach 21.72 billion images by 2010. There are four key drivers that make TransPromo an idea whose time has come: The need for better ways to

FIFTY YEARS would constitute a long career, but it’s just a flash of time for an industry that traces its roots at least back to the introduction of the Gutenberg press, circa the early 1400s. While each generation probably thinks it has seen more changes than any other, this has been a dizzying half century for the printing process. Letterpress has given way to offset and now digital printing. Composition has gone from hot metal and manual paste-up through phototypesetting, color scanning, color electronic prepress systems and desktop publishing, then on to computer-to-plate and Web-to-print. Bindery equipment now boosts more computer power than Apollo

DÜSSELDORF, Germany—May 29, 2008—Xerox Corp. (NYSE: XRX) today unveiled the Xerox iGen4, the most productive and highest-quality cut-sheet digital press in the printing industry. “Building on our hugely successful Xerox iGen3®, the industry’s leading high-speed digital color press, this next generation iGen4 delivers color quality and automation that redefine the standards of printing,” said Anne Mulcahy, Xerox chairman and chief executive officer. “It’s the innovation this industry expects from Xerox – technology that makes print providers more profitable with every color page that comes off the Xerox press.” Commercial printers, photo finishers, book printers, direct-mail houses, and digital service providers depend on

VALHALLA, NY—May 22, 2008—Fujifilm Corp. has developed ground-breaking, next generation inkjet digital printing technology that enables the world’s first high quality, high-speed printing on large sheet sizes (maximum print size: 720mm x 520mm) at high resolutions of 1200 dpi at 4-level gray scale*2 by using a single-pass*1 inkjet printing method. In addition, it achieves quality levels comparable to offset printing for a variety of different types of coated papers. This digital printing technology achieving high-speed, high-quality, and large sheet size is set to revolutionize the printing industry by significantly enhancing the efficiency of the print production process. Furthermore, with its excellent system design and

ROCHESTER, NY—May 21, 2008—Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX) today announced advances in the integration of Xerox FreeFlow Digital Workflow Collection software with two leading offset workflow systems, Prinect, the Print Shop Workflow from Heidelberg and Fujifilm Workflow XMF. These integrations enable print providers to leverage their existing offset workflow to serve as a single, familiar point of control for both digital and computer-to-plate offset print work. Both systems are based on industry-standard PDF print files and JDF (Job Definition Format) platform-independent job tickets, which provide instructions for producing jobs. The longstanding integration of Xerox FreeFlow with Prinect from Heidelberg has been enhanced to enable two-way

ROCHESTER, NY—May 22, 2008—The printing industry’s most productive high-speed digital color press has just taken its image quality, productivity and profitability to a whole new level. Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX) today introduced the Automated Color Quality Suite Press Matching System, for its Xerox iGen3® 90 and 110 Digital Production Presses, offering high performance plus quality that matches offset printing. The new Automated Color Quality Suite enables faster press set up, quicker time to production, greater color stability and automated Pantone-color matching. Routine color maintenance and adjustments associated with running a high-speed digital color press now can be done with greater automation. The Automated

ROCHESTER, NY—May 19, 2008—PODi, the Digital Printing Initiative, today announced PPML Consumer Certification Programs and the first group of certified products for users of PPML (the Personalized Print Markup Language). PPML is the leading open-standard VDP (Variable Data Publishing) language for production digital printing. PPML facilitates creating personalized high-volume print campaigns by service providers, enabling meaningful one-to-one “conversations” for their customers. The addition of PPML Consumer Testing and Certification to the previously announced Producer Certification now provides independent verification that compliant products from different companies will correctly process PPML for the print service provider. Certification is traceable to a single PPML/GA test suite and

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);