Shorts

Print media promoter the Print Council named Martin Maloney executive director. He retains his post as head of marketing firm Broadford & Maloney.

Graphics of the Americas will co-sponsor Xplor's 2005 conference, Nov. 6–10 in Orlando, marking Xplor's move East. Xplor also runs a conference in Miami Beach, Feb. 4–6.

Sappi paper mills in ME, MI and MN now conform to Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) requirements.

Superior Printing Ink broke ground for a 12,000-sq.ft. varnish plant in Hamden, CT (below).

Anderson Lithograph is Sappi's 2004 "International Printer of the Year." The Los Angeles company also won the North American honors.

Hi-Liter Graphics, Burlington, WI, acquired Inland Press, a Menomonee Falls book printer, forming a 180-employee, $29-million firm.

Mountain Products, Houston, renamed itself Mountain Commercial Graphics.

Presstek completed its previously announced plan to acquire AB Dick.

Bowne & Co. is selling Bowne Business Solutions to Williams Lea, a European business-process outsourcing specialist, for $180 million cash.

Colter & Peterson and MBO America announced a cooperative agreement to co-distribute Wohlenberg paper cutters and cutting systems for the U.S. market.

Italian Converflex/Grafitalia shows are rescheduled to May 9–13, 2006 (from Oct. 11–15, 2005), and the GEC commercial printing show is permanently cancelled, says manager Centrexpo SpA, Milan.

Cal Poly appointed Kevin Cooper, a former RR Donnelley executive, to assistant professor in its Graphic Communication Dept.