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Commercial printing industry supplier company and personnel news from Printing Impressions’ September 2012 edition.

EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ—The National Association for Printing Leadership (NAPL) has named John Saxton, president and CEO of The Sheridan Group, as the 52nd Walter E. Soderstrom Award recipient. Saxton will be honored at NAPL’s annual Soderstrom Society dinner on Oct. 6 at the Mid America Club in Chicago, one night before the start of Graph Expo.

Apex Color, a member of Strategic Print Alliance, has added a Konica Minolta bizhub PRESS C8000 color press and bizhub PRO 1200 black-and-white printer to its equipment list. Both machines feature an inline booklet maker, pamphlet maker, punch and stapler and have full variable-data printing capability.

The Marsid M&M Group, a leading provider of printing, graphics, mailing and fulfillment services, is proud to announce its acquisition of Konica Minolta’s flagship full-color digital press, the bizhub PRESS C8000. The new addition further solidifies the company’s commitment to the digital printing market and customer demands for short-run and variable-data printing.

Konica Minolta's new KMI inkjet press supports commercial printers in producing high-quality print jobs, that are not suitable for offset printing, and processes formats up to size B2 and a speed of 3,300 sph.

Commercial printing industry supplier company and personnel news from Printing Impressions’ May 2012 edition.

Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., a leading provider of advanced imaging and networking technologies for the desktop to the print shop, today announced Gavin Jordan-Smith has joined the company as vice president solutions and production planning, Business Intelligence Services.

All Covered, a division of Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. (Konica Minolta) focused on delivering high-performance IT services to small- and medium-sized businesses, is pleased to announce that Covisia Solutions, a managed IT services company based in Waltham, MA, has joined All Covered. With the addition of Covisia Solutions, All Covered expands its presence with a broad and talented group of professionals along with a diverse list of clients.

AliGraphics, a full-service printing and graphics company, has added 8,000 square feet to its current facility, bringing its total plant size to 13,000 square feet. The expansion was designed to accommodate more production equipment and provide additional office space.

Konica Minolta will supply to Komori the bizhub PRESS series, centered on the bizhub PRESS C8000 digital printing system, for sale in the four regions of Japan, the United States, Europe and China. Additionally, beginning in May 2012, Konica Minolta will supply Komori with the product series on an OEM basis in those four regions.