ACROSS the nation

MARYLAND

PRINCE FREDERICK—A business delegation comprising more than 20 Chinese direct mail industry representatives recently visited DirecMail.com's facility here as part of a business exchange program focusing on the U.S. direct mail industry.

MASSACHUSETTS

BOSTON—ABnote North America is relocating secure plastic card production, which includes government identification and financial payment cards, from Mt. Pleasant, TN, to its existing commercial card facility here.

DANVERS—Shawmut Printing, a full-service commercial printer, recently installed its fourth Komori press, a five-color Lithrone S40 (LS540) with advanced interface software, to address the company's increased demand for high-quality, more sophisticated applications.

LOWELL—DS Graphics recently added an HP Indigo 7000 digital press and HP SmartStream Production Pro print server.

NEVADA

LAS VEGAS—Creel Printing is installing QTMS iQ Web and iQ Paper systems on its two Goss Sunday presses. QTMS will be integrated into Creel's existing MIS through the QTMS application programming interface. QTMS will help the printer better manage its paper costs and reduce overruns, both planned and unplanned.

NEW JERSEY

PENNSAUKEN—As part of Xerox's "Let's Say Thanks" program, CRW Graphics printed 50,000 postcards on Xerox iGen3 digital production presses at its facility here. The program is a free and easy way for the public to send messages to U.S. military personnel stationed overseas.

PENNSYLVANIA

INDIANA—The Indiana Gazette has ordered two angle bar/slitter/realigner assemblies from Manugraph DGM for its existing Goss Urbanite press. The assemblies allow the newspaper to produce three-wide webs for six pages of broadsheet per web, at web widths up to 36˝ wide.

RHODE ISLAND

EAST PROVIDENCE—The PrintSource Group, located in a 25,000-square-foot facility here, has installed a six-color Komori Lithrone 28 (LS628) press with an in-line aqueous coater.

SOUTH CAROLINA

YORK—Seeking to increase its capabilities, Ambassador Packaging, a folding carton printer located here, recently purchased a six-color, 41˝ KBA Rapida 106 with coater.

SOUTH DAKOTA

SIOUX FALLS—Bell Inc., an independently owned folding carton company, and the world's largest supplier of paperboard envelopes, has purchased a Heidelberg Suprasetter 162 VLF CTP system to support its new VLF press. Both the press and the platesetting device are scheduled to be installed in April 2010.

TENNESSEE

MEMPHIS—Seeking to improve productivity and streamline communication among multiple sites, A S Hospitality has purchased an EFI Pace print management solution. The printing and graphics communications provider serves more than 20,000 hotel properties and cruise lines.

TEXAS

DALLAS—Direct Mail Partners expects to consolidate printer footprint and reduce its overall monthly operational expenses by more than $10,000 by upgrading to Océ VarioPrint 6320 Ultra cutsheet printers.

VIRGINIA

ALEXANDRIA—DigiLink, a full-service prepress, print, finishing and mailing company, has installed a six-color Komori LS640 press to accommodate longer run, higher page count projects. The shop also added a Screen 8600S platesetter along with EFI's Digital StoreFront. PI

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