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Jacksonville, Florida-based Apex Color, a member of Strategic Print Alliance and PSDA, has added Konica Minolta's C8000 Bizhub and 1200 B&W to its equipment list. 

Velocity Print Solutions has formed a new Educational Solutions Group, Velocity EDU Solutions. Velocity EDU Solutions is dedicated to assisting educational institutions in achieving their goals in Admissions Search and Alumni Development.

George Orwell was onto something. Maybe not with the dystopian society, giant-faces-on-video-screens stuff, but with the whole "Big Brother is watching you" thing. 

Headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, Cenveo, Inc. announced results for the three months ended March 31, 2012.

Durham, North Carolina-based Bell and Howell, a leading provider of solutions and services for paper-based and digital messaging, announced a relationship with Window Book and endorsement of its Mail.dat management software for sorting customers using the NetSort® solution. Window Book, based in Cambridge, Mass., is a leading provider of mailing and shipping software.

Industries across the board have built quite a collection of buzzwords over the last few years.

Harwood Heights, Illinois-based FCL Graphics Incorporated, a leading printer of marketing and direct mail materials, announced its latest investment in a newly installed high-speed Heidelberg stitching line with six model TAS signature feeders with the Optigraf signature recognition system.

Ideal Printers and PrintMailers, Inc., two of Houston’s largest mail and print service companies, announced a merger that will combine their complementary portfolio of cross-media production services. The new company, Seebridge Media, will occupy the existing PrintMailers Inc. 112,000 sq. ft. location in Houston and offer an expanded range of fully integrated production services.

In the mid 1880s, when pioneers were just beginning to test the concept of direct mail, the French journalist Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr wrote‚ "plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose," which roughly translates to "the more things change, the more they stay the same."

The U.S. Postal Service ended the first three months of its 2012 fiscal year (Oct. 1 – Dec. 31, 2011) with a net loss of $3.3 billion. Management expects large losses to continue until the Postal Service has implemented its network re-design and down-sizing and has restructured its healthcare program.