Cenveo Inc., Stamford, Conn., has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all of the operating assets of National Envelope.
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With Citi analyst Kenneth Wong releasing a bullish note projecting the market for 3D printing and related services to triple by 2018, Quantum International Corp. is eyeing big future profits for its investors in the 3D printing market.
The expiration of key patents in 2014 is an indicator that 3D printing is going to explode. 3D printers will soon cost less than a PC, and the challenge of learning how to model things in 3D will dissipate because users will have the ability to copy them using inexpensive, but effective 3D scanners.
RR Donnelley & Sons Company, Chicago, has closed an offering of $400 million aggregate principal amount of 7.000 percent Notes due 2022.
KDM P.O.P. Solutions Group, Cincinnati, announced the hiring of Jason Owens as the business development leader for the ad specialty supplier division. Owens previously worked as an executive with Lamagraphix Designs.
A small printing error is presumably proving very costly for the U.S. government after a currency factory ruined 30 million of the next generation of $100 bills.
Originally slated to go into circulation in 2011, the new bills have experienced a variety of setbacks, the latest of which involves a printing mistake known as "mashing," which is caused by applying too much ink to the paper.
The error has forced the Federal Reserve to return tens of millions of notes back to the Washington, D.C., facility and demand its money back. The returned notes will be destroyed.
Clashes are cropping up as 3-D printers become more affordable and websites such as Thingiverse.com post blueprints to help the machines build everything from toy tanks to replacement toaster parts. The disputes are ushering in a new era in legal skirmishes over high-tech designs, threatening a printing market that’s estimated by Wohlers Associates to surge to $10.8 billion by 2021 from $2.2 billion last year.
A pressroom employee was reaching up “to grab something” and got his hand caught in the presses at the Asbury Park Press printing plant on Willow Brook Road in New Jersey, according to Tom Merkel, assistant pressroom foreman.
Joe Gaire, 52, of Freehold, N.J., suffered a serious injury at 4:45 p.m. Thursday after getting his hand caught between the roller and cylinder of a press that was being set up for printing, Merkel said.
Cenveo Inc., located in Stamford, Conn., announced results for the three and six months ended June 29, 2013.
EFI announced that a federal court has dismissed a patent infringement lawsuit brought by Digitech Image Technologies LLC ostensibly related to digital image processing technology.
RR Donnelley & Sons Company has further expanded its International Logistics Services offering with the opening of a facility in Itasca, Ill. This new location is strategically located near Chicago O'Hare International Airport and extends the company's physical presence, complementing its logistics facilities on the East and West Coasts.