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Headquartered in Cypress Calif., Redi-Tag Corporation’s newest product, Redi-Bind, is an effective tool for organizing paperwork. The Redi-Bind three-ring binding system is great for work in progress, filing and organizing stacked paper and documents. Each Redi-Bind holds up to 50 sheets of three-hole-punched paper, and easily snaps open and closes to add or remove sheets. The product is a lightweight, convenient and cost-cutting alternative to a full binder. Two five-color assortments are available. The presentation series includes frost, black, navy, maroon and forest green binder systems, while the organization series includes red, blue, green, yellow and orange binder systems. For more information, call

Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) 4-state customer bar code greatly increases the amount of information carried within a bar code, yet uses less space, providing greater data capacity. The new bar code integrates the delivery information of the zip-plus-four and delivery point with a detailed tracking number in a single, height-modulated bar code featuring four distinct vertical bar types—full, tracker, ascender and descender. The 31-digit 4-state customer bar code (65 bars) is slightly longer than the 11-digit POSTNET (62 bars), and offers mailers certain flexibility in choosing the height and width of the bar code. Effective Sept. 2006, mailers

Maggio Data Forms, Hauppauge, N.Y., announced the appointment of Uri Mittler to its sales team. He serves New York City, Northern New Jersey and greater Philadelphia. Mittler has more than 25 years of experience in printing and business forms, and has worked as a distributor in the field. Maggio Data Form’s product line includes laser cut sheets, continuous forms, unit sets, cross-web gluing, MICR encoded checks, jumbo rolls and five-color printing. For more information, visit www.maggio.com.

Rank: 1 Company: WorkflowOne, Dayton, Ohio Sales $(000): 1,000,000 Principal Officer(s): Greg Mosher, Chairman, CEO Locations: 150 Rank: 2 Company: Proforma, Cleveland Sales $(000): 293,000 Principal Officer(s): Greg Muzzillo, Founder, Co-CEO; Vera Muzzillo, Co-CEO Locations: 650 Rank: 3 Company: American Solutions for Business, Glenwood, Minn. Sales $(000): 239,776 Principal Officer(s): Larry Zavadil, President Locations: 410 Rank: 4 Company: GBS, North Canton, Ohio Sales $(000): 90,143 Principal Officer(s): Eugene Calabria, President, CEO Locations: 12 Rank: 5 Company: Merrill Corp., Monroe, Wash. Sales $(000): 83,950 Principal Officer(s): Mark Rossi, President Locations: 6 Rank: 6 Company: The Shamrock Companies, Westlake, Ohio Sales

THE GOOD NEWS is, United States printing shipments grew at a robust pace over the first quarter of the year, up 4.2 percent ahead of last year’s first quarter, and total U.S. printing industry production could reach more than $170 billion for 2006, reported Ronnie H. Davis, Ph.D., vice president and chief economist for the Printing Industries of America/Graphic Arts Technical Foundation (PIA/GATF), Sewickley, Pa. Printers’ prices were also up an average of 2.2 percent from year-ago levels—the highest rate since before the 2001 to 2002 recession—indicating a strong print market is providing printers some pricing leverage. The bad news is, operating costs such as

Reynolds and Reynolds, Dayton, Ohio, and Houston-based Universal Computer Systems (UCS) announced a merger between the two companies. Fin O’Neill will be Reynolds and Reynolds’ chief executive officer, and Reynolds and Reynolds will continue to have headquarters in Dayton. The combined company will still be named The Reynolds and Reynolds Company, with the products and services of both Reynolds and Reynolds and UCS marketed under the Reynolds and Reynolds brand. The UCS brand will be discontinued. For more information, call (937) 485-8107.

Rank: 1 Company: WorkflowOne, Dayton, Ohio Commercial Print Sales $(000): 135,000 Total Sales $(000): 1,000,000 Rank: 2 Company: Webb/Mason, Hunt Valley, Md. Commercial Print Sales $(000): 44,208 Total Sales $(000): 65,012 Rank: 3 Company: American Solutions for Business, Glenwood, Minn. Commercial Print Sales $(000): 23,978 Total Sales $(000): 239,776 Rank: 4 Company: The Shamrock Companies, Westlake, Ohio Commercial Print Sales $(000): 21,957 Total Sales $(000): 75,715 Rank: 5 Company: Jerome Group, Maryland Heights, Mo. Commercial Print Sales $(000): 18,604 Total Sales $(000): 44,295 Rank: 6 Company: Brown & Partners, Blue Bell, Pa. Commercial Print Sales $(000): 18,197 Total Sales

Rank: 1 Company: WorkflowOne, Dayton, Ohio Forms Sales $(000): 338,000 Total Sales $(000): 1,000,000 Rank: 2 Company: American Solutions for Business, Glenwood, Minn. Forms Sales $(000): 66,178 Total Sales $(000): 239,776 Rank: 3 Company :Data Supplies, Duluth, Ga. Forms Sales $(000): 28,678 Total Sales $(000): 73,533 Rank: 4 Company: Fiserv Direct Source, New Berlin, Wis. Forms Sales $(000): 19,600 Total Sales $(000): 35,000 Rank: 5 Company: Great American Business Products, Houston Forms Sales $(000): 19,563 Total Sales $(000): 35,570 Rank: 6 Company: GBS, North Canton, Ohio Forms Sales $(000): 18,930 Total Sales $(000): 90,143 Rank: 7 Company: Merrill

Dayton, Ohio-based WorkflowOne’s newly launched digital solutions business unit provides a dedicated network of equipment, services and personnel required to meet the company’s growing demand for digital and variable data printing, mailing and electronic communications solutions. It will also offer a virtual one-stop-shop for customers who want to take advantage of the latest technological solutions for marketing and transactional communications. Tom Dailey, formerly general manager of the company’s billing solutions group, was named general manager of digital solutions, reporting to Michael Zawalski, president and CEO of WorkflowOne. The business unit will unify the resources of WorkflowOne’s former billing solutions production facilities in

Minneapolis-based Capture Business Card announced FormStore, St. Louis, will provide wholesale fulfillment services for Capture Card customers, allowing resellers to ensure high-quality printed business cards and quick turnaround for outsourced orders. FormStore’s extensive print facilities will manage the “no touch” web-based workflow needs of Capture Card’s print provider customers. Capture Business Cards is the sole supplier of Capture Card and Capture Card Plus, unique business card substrates that are revolutionizing the business form market. While Capture Business Cards supplies their unique paper to the graphic arts market, they also provide marketing and sales support to companies who choose to resell their products. A