Mac Byrd

MAYWOOD, NJ—A number of employees from the folded Ramsey Press have joined forces with Dolce Printing. Among the new appointments are Ed Parker, senior account executive; John Manolatos, senior account manager; Eric Dederding, account manager; Steve Cartoon, production manager; Brando Roman, prepress manager; and Mac Byrd, director of sales and marketing.

Commercial printer Alcom, of Harleysville, PA, has hired a new territory manager/solutions provider: John Newswanger, a 21-year veteran of Acorn Press. Warren Dow, president of Trend Offset Printing in Los Alamitos, CA, has been promoted to president and CEO. Dow joined Trend in July 2005, and became president and COO in 2006. Before joining Trend, he served as COO of Southwest Offset Printing. He’s a graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara and is on the board of directors of the Web Offset Association (WOA). The creative agency and technology solutions unit of The CGI Group, CGI Squared Ltd., London, announced the launch of