Printer News

According to the watchdog group Verified Voting, roughly 70 percent of all voters this year will be casting paper ballots. This has less to do with a distrust of electronic voting and more about the cost. Most states with electronic voting systems have equipment that is over a decade old, and these localities simply don't have the funding for an upgrade.

In a rare public accounting of its mass surveillance program, the United States Postal Service reported that it approved nearly 50,000 requests last year from law enforcement agencies and its own internal inspection unit to secretly monitor the mail of Americans for use in criminal and national security investigations.

The number of requests, contained in a 2014 audit of the surveillance program by the Postal Service's inspector general, shows that the surveillance program is more extensive than previously disclosed and that oversight protecting Americans from potential abuses is lax.

Deluxe Corporation, a leader in providing small businesses and financial institutions with products and services to drive customer revenue, announced its financial results for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, 2014.

Printing Industries of America's Center for Print Economic & Market Research announced an agreement with Profectus Inc., a national consulting firm that helps printing and packaging organizations improve their business, to offer CostRatesAdvisor.com, Budgeted Hourly Rates Software at a special price for Printing Industries of America members.

Cenveo Inc. recently announced the opening of two state-of-the-art envelope showcase, production and distribution facilities in Mount Pleasant, Pa., and Chicopee, Mass.

AMSP/NAPL/NAQP Chairman Tom Duchene yesterday announced a transition of executive leadership at the combined association. Effective Jan. 12, 2015, J. Kenneth Garner will become association chief executive officer, succeeding Joseph P. Truncale, Ph.D., CAE.

Circle Graphics, the world's largest producer of grand-format digital graphics, recently announced the acquisition of Mammoth Media, a grand-format printing company with a focus on the transit market. 

Hundreds of mill workers from across the state will find themselves without jobs at the beginning of the holiday season after Verso Paper's sudden announcement Wednesday that it will close its paper mill in Bucksport effective Dec. 1.

More than 500 employees will be out of work in the third mill closure in Maine this year, dealing a severe blow to the town of 5,000 people, which derives 47 percent of its tax revenues from the Verso mill.

"The Bucksport mill unfortunately has not been profitable for a number of years," said Dave Paterson, Verso's president and CEO.

Despite business increasingly moving online, businesses and consumers alike still depend on paper, especially in various packaging and shipping markets. The bad news for businesses, however, is that the prices of paper and packaging products are on an upward trend as input costs rise for upstream suppliers and consumer shopping trends drive demand for shipping materials and services.

Pitney Bowes Inc., Stamford, Conn., has expanded its business relationship with Incepture Print Solutions, a growing Florida-based print and mail fulfillment organization that has been producing customer communications using a Pitney Bowes' White Paper Factory since 2012.