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Heidelberg reorganizes, Relm Holdings intends to buy digital printing firm, DesignBay buys Design Crowd, Fry Communications, new emission trading system for California, consumer mag publishers launch online newsstand, Nook production upped, Waldo Hunt dies, USPS green Website, Goss CEO on Shanghai Electric's ownership investment and today's quote.
Graphic Arts Monthly Wires -- Graphic Arts Online, November 30, 2009
Jürgen Rautert leaves Heidelberg after nearly 20 years.
Heidelberg says goodbye to Dr. Jürgen Rautert (left), who developed its Dymatrix and Speedmaster XL 105, as it adopts a new corporate structure.
Legal printing firm Relm Holdings Inc., Wilmington, DE, intends to acquire 100% of the equity interests in an electronic document management company with facilities in western Nevada.
DesignBay, an online graphic design crowdsourcing company, acquired and merged with US freelance design website DesignCrowd; the new entity boasts over 12,000 graphic designers and studios from around the world. For more>>
Fry Communications, Mechanicsburg, PA, reported its ReADy Ad Portal 2.1, processed its 200,000th ad. The system is used today by 200 publications, and another 300 new titles already slated to come under contract in 2010. For more>>
The California Air Resources Board will create a trading system by 2010 to limit green house gases. The move by the pace-setting state starts in 2012 with 600 stationary emitters of gases, with big implications for printing and paper firms everywhere.
Magazine publishers Time, Inc., Hearst, Conde Nast and Meredith will launch an online magazine “newsstand,” establishing uniform formats for computer, iPhone, PDA and e-Readers, reports NY Times.
Barnes and Noble’s Nook e-reader has proved so popular in online sales that the bookstore chain will have real samples in only a few brick and mortar stores. It is upping production for the e-Ink based Nook reader that offers more than 1 million books, plus newspapers and magazines in e-formats.
Died: Waldo Hunt, on Nov. 7, age 88, founder of Graphics International Inc. (later sold to greeting card printing giant Hallmark), and who’s inventive designs lead to a resurgence in pop-up books from the 1960s through the 1990s.
The latest issue of Goss's Web Offset customer magazine features president and CEO Jochen Meissner explaining the benefits of Shanghai Electric's ownership investment in the pressmaker, along with customer profiles and technology updates. For more>>
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