ACROSS the nation

maine

AUGUSTA—J.S. McCarthy Printers has opened a 20,000-square-foot distribution facility. The order fulfillment system is Web-based, allowing customers to ship orders and track inventory 24/7.

PORTLAND—Spectrum Printing & Graphics has relocated into a 35,000-square-foot facility designed to accommodate a new eight-color, 40˝ Mitsubishi Diamond 3000R perfecting press.

maryland

Annapolis Junction—Millennium Marketing Solutions (formerly Millennium Printing and Graphics), has relocated to its newly constructed, 18,000-square-foot building. As part of the expansion plan for its design, printing, Web and promotional products business, Millennium occupies one-half of the building and is offering for lease the remaining space of 9,000 square feet.

BALTIMORE—A Recmi fully automatic stacker/bundler, from IMC America, is being installed in-line with a new Timsons press at book printer Victor Graphics. The installation will commence this fall and will be operational by year's end.

Upper Marlboro—Prince George's County launched an innovative campaign with business and nonprofit partners to increase recycling of magazines and catalogs. This partnership, which includes the National Recycling Coalition, Time Inc., International Paper and Recycle America Alliance, will be a model for magazine and catalog recycling in cities across America. Designed to inform residents that magazines and catalogs can easily be included with other paper recycling, the "Recycling Magazines is Excellent" campaign, or "ReMix" will help divert magazines from the landfill.

massachusetts

BRAINTREE—The Sir Speedy location here produced a company record 1.1 million color copies in March, using both a Xerox iGen3 and Xerox DocuColor 2060.

michigan

DEXTER—Thomson-Shore is said to be the first book manufacturer to join the Green Press Initiative, a nonprofit program of social and environmental entrepreneurs dedicated to increasing the use of recycled paper within the book industry.

MIDLAND—McKay Press has successfully completed its audit to become CGMP compliant, a rigorous quality control standard that is an extension of ISO 9001:2000.

minnesota

SAINT PAUL—An eight-color KBA Rapida 105 sheetfed perfector has been installed at Print Craft. The press features a perfector between the fourth and fifth unit, as well as in-line coating.