ACROSS the nation
MASSACHUSETTS
AGAWAM—Millennium Press has installed a six-color Komori Lithrone 28 press.
ALLSTON—Servigraphics, based here, has agreed to donate profits over a six-month period to the Dianne DeVanna Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect in Braintree.
WOBURN—Trade finishing and bindery services provider Seaboard Bindery has installed a new Brandtjen & Kluge in-line folder/gluer.
MICHIGAN
ROSEVILLE—Colortech Graphics was honored with the best of show award at the 2002 Gallery of Superb Printing, sponsored by the Detroit Club of Printing House Craftsmen, for its contribution of the "Pontiac Firebird 35th Anniversary" advertising campaign.
MINNESOTA
MINNEAPOLIS—Park Printing has become the site of the 100th installation of the Agfa Xcalibur Very Large Format (VLF) platesetter.
SAINT PAUL—GML Inc., a diversified printing and converting firm, has acquired the specialty converting division of Advanced Converting Technologies. Advanced Converting specializes in slitting and rewinding films and foils, laminating and diecutting.
MISSOURI
SAINT LOUIS—Color Associates has launched its own creative group. It will support Color Associates' packaging, catalog, publishing and corporate direct groups, and specializes in packaging design, catalog design, publishing multimedia development and digital photography.
John Stark Printing, based in Saint Louis, has opened a sales office in Chicago. James Cosgrove has been named accounts manager of the new office.
NEVADA
LAS VEGAS—At the Web Offset Association's (WOA) 50th annual conference, held here in May, Thomas Brinkman Sr., founder of Metroweb Corp. of Erlanger, KY, and Edward Barr, chairman of Fort Lee, NJ-based Sun Chemical, were presented with the Vision Award.
Craig Miller, Sue Miller and Christy Jeppeson, owners of Las Vegas-based Pictographics, have been named Las Vegas' Small Business Persons of the Year. Pictographics is a large-format digital printing and graphics service bureau. The company plans to move into a newly constructed, 20,000-square-foot facility in October.
NEW JERSEY
LAKEWOOD—Eagle Graphics has purchased a five-color Sakurai 572EDII automated half-size press.
