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Imprinta, the international trade fair for premedia and cross-media publishing, will next take place in 2006, not 2003 as originally planned. The event, last staged in 1997, will be held in Düsseldorf, Germany.

International Paper will close and put up for sale by the fourth quarter its Hudson River coated paper mill in Corinth, N.Y. (annual output: about 100,000 tons of coated groundwood and freesheet grades, plus some specialty products). As a result, 290 jobs will be eliminated.

Goss International, Westmont, Ill.-based manufacturer of web offset presses, last month appointed Bob Brown, formerly head of Heidelberg Web Systems, to serve as chief executive officer, and 40-year industry veteran Edward R. Padilla to the post of chairman.

Nordson UV Limited, a unit of Nordson Corporation, Amherst, Ohio, has named Martin Petersen national sales manager and Ed McGhee industrial sales manager.

Frank Woods has retired as president of Woods Lithographics, Phoenix, a high-end commercial shop that he founded with his wife, Barbara, in 1978. Their son, Steve, takes over as president.

Steven C. Schuster was recently named president of Konica Graphic Imaging International Inc., Glen Cove, N.Y., responsible for the company's graphic arts activities in North and South America.

On August 1, Jon Guy will take over as chief executive of Gallus Inc., Philadelphia, replacing Ferdinand Rüesch Jr., who has been appointed board president of Gallus Group, St. Gallen, Switzerland. Also, Klaus Bachstein was named chief executive of the group.