“I’m about as energized as I’ve ever been. I’ve had about a year of bottled up energy, so I’m ready to unleash,” Jeff Jacobson said in a 1:1 phone interview yesterday with In-plant Impressions' sister brand Printing Impressions.
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Quad and LSC decided that the added delay, uncertainty, and legal costs would have eroded many of the expected benefits of the merger.
What had been a smaller, focused event for Ricoh's continuous-feed inkjet press user base, INTERACT 2019 marked the second year that the user conference was expanded to include Ricoh cut-sheet digital toner, wide-format printing, and software customers.
The Coalition for a 21st Century Postal Service, which represents the printing and mailing industries, wants Congress to retain the 2006 Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act that determines and sets price caps on the Postal Regulatory Commission’s rate-setting process for the U.S Postal Service.
Capable of printing 3,600 sheets/hr., Fujifilm is heralding it as the fastest full-color, B2-format inkjet press currently available.
The German antitrust authority struck down a proposed deal that would have had Heidelberg taking over MBO Group.
He joined the former GATF in Pittsburgh as Assistant Education Director in 1965 and was Director of Special Programs from 1986-1996.
CEO Bill Muir said trying to keep up with Wall Street’s quarterly report-sales-growth cadence made it difficult to manage the business.
After 105 years at its current site in downtown Washington, the agency is evaluating a 100-acre parcel in Prince George’s County, Md.
Steven Kaczorowski admitted to helping the mail service provider owner defraud the USPS out of more than $1.5 million in postage.
Press manufacturers, postpress equipment suppliers and software, consumables and substrate companies all came together in Lucerne, Switzerland, recently to showcase automated end-to-end digital production workflows. Among the attendees were more than 100 U.S.-based printers, representing a virtual Who’s Who of leading printing companies.
The study provides a key roadmap of the market verticals where printers should — and should not be — directing their sales efforts.
The 20th annual conference featured nearly 200 educational sessions, many new product demos and peer-to-peer networking opportunities.
In-plants that hire temporary workers during busy seasons take heed. A Pennsylvania trade binder that used a staffing agency learned too late that the agency underpaid the temps and kept the excess money. Now the bindery has to pay a hefty fine.
Sussex, Wis.-based Quad/Graphics is acquiring LSC Communications, of Chicago, to create a combined $8.1 billion, publicly-held company. The deal is the result of a whopping $1.4 billion all-stock transaction, which includes the refinancing of LSC Communications' debt.
