Former Printing Employee Gets Year in Jail

MODESTO, CA—A printing company's former office manager will be spending the next year in jail after pleading no contest earlier this week to embezzlement and identity theft charges. Prosecutors said that Jessica Sue Hoover, 25, stole $76,000 from Gowans Printing...

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Vertis Communications Closes Another Facility

SAN ANTONIO, TX—Vertis Communications, of Baltimore, is consolidating some operations, which is prompting the closure of its San Antonio advertising insert printing facility, the San Antonio Business Journal reported. The move impacts approximately 90 employees. The company is said to...

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Four Resign from Quebecor World Board

MONTREAL—Four members who also serve on the board of directors for Quebecor Inc. and Quebecor Media have resigned their board posts with Quebecor World. Pierre Karl Peladeau, Erik Peladeau, Jean Neveu and Jean La Couture have determined that "as a...

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Printing Gaffe Exposes Personal Information

BATON ROUGE, LA—A printing job mailed out by the Louisiana Department of Revenue accidentally exposed the personal information of nearly 300 taxpayers to other people with tax debts, according to the Associated Press. The department said letters that were mailed...

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Detroit Newspapers Reducing Home Delivery

DETROIT—The newspaper community took another hit with the announcement that the city's two dailies will reduce home delivery to three days a week, printing smaller editions on non-delivery days and, gulp, encouraging people to get information online....

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Wilkens Named to Agfa NA Exec Position

RIDGEFIELD PARK, NJ—Agfa Graphics announced that Peter Wilkens, Agfa's current vice president of sales and marketing, has been appointed regional president of North American business effective January 1, 2009. Wilkens will replace Thomas Saggiomo, who is leaving to become president...

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Former In-plant Exec in Trouble Over Ethics Case

ATHENS, OH—A former Ohio University in-plant director has been indicted by a grand jury on charges in connection with more than $100,000 worth of university contracts awarded to businesses owned by his wife. David Kasler has been charged with two...

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Happy Holidays and See You in 2009!

The editors of Printing Impressions magazine would like to wish you and yours a happy and safe holiday season, as well as a prosperous New Year. PI Weekly will return on January 9, 2009....

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Print Suppliers Weigh In on Print Volumes in 2009

Print Buyers Online.com recently asked our print supplier members, “What are your projections regarding client orders for the first and second quarter of 2009?” While our initial polling showed that print suppliers are evenly split over whether their client orders...

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Vertis Communications Closing Plants
Dec 12, 2008

RRD Combines MN Plants; Purchases Grafikom Assets
Dec 12, 2008

Struggling Serigraph Plans to Lay Off About 50
Dec 12, 2008

Ex-Agfa Exec Saggiomo Takes Helm of DG3
Dec 12, 2008

Paper Company Sues Printer Over Nonpayment
Dec 12, 2008

AbitibiBowater Capacity Reduction Impacts 1,100
Dec 12, 2008