Printer News

Xerox Downsizes in Oregon
May 7, 2013

About 300 people will lose their jobs as Xerox eliminates two Oregon call centers.

The Norwalk, Connecticut-based document management company disclosed through a notice filed under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act that it is closing its customer care centers in Coos Bay and North Bend.

Family Business Owners Hope to Rebuild After Fire
May 7, 2013

Fox 8 viewer recorded thick, black smoke billowing from the A-A Blueprint company in Springfield Township (OH) on Gilchrist Road late Friday afternoon. The company’s vice president, who was not inside the plant at the time, said he could see the smoke for miles.

“We were in Norton on the Kenmore Boulevard leg and we could see giant clouds of black smoke and I was just hoping and praying that it wasn’t our building and sure enough it was,” said VP Josh Scalia.

Seattle Digital Printer RPI Buys Atlanta Company DPI
May 7, 2013

RPI, a digital-image printing company in Seattle, is announcing Wednesday its purchase of DPI in Atlanta for an undisclosed amount.

DPI specializes in personalized web-to-print products for large companies and has 27 employees. RPI chief executive Rick Bellamy said the purchase will expand RPI's reach to the East Coast, reduce shipping costs and waits and expand its personalized-print products.

Started as a family-owned commercial printer in 1979, RPI creates the personalized-photo books and greeting cards consumers order online from photo sharing and printing companies.

The small but rapidly growing market for digital-photo merchandise is worth an estimated $2 billion.

Former Vertis Workers Denied Severance End Plant-gate Picketing
May 7, 2013

Former Vertis Communications employees denied severance when they were summarily terminated earlier this year have called a halt to picketing outside the plant gates of the Eagle Street facility.

But they haven’t given up the fight to get at least some of the $2.7 million they say is owed to them.

In an attempt to put pressure on the company to pay them what they believed they were owed, the employees set up an information picket outside the plant gates, where they held vigil every day, even when temperatures dipped well below zero.

Unjust Pre-funding of Benefits is Killing the Postal Service
April 30, 2013

The recent U.S. Postal Service financial report for the first three months of fiscal 2013, said that in operational terms the Postal Service had a $100M profit delivering the mail—six days a week. It earned revenues of $17.7B selling stamps and services and had expenses of $17.6B. But the quarter's $1.4B pre-funding cost led to a reported "loss" of $1.3B.

There is much support for rectifying this situation, including from the postmaster general, the postal unions, many industry observers and, most importantly, from hundreds of members of Congress from both parties.

The Washington Examiner has entered this discussion.

Vistaprint Q3 Profit Surges, Raises Guidance
April 30, 2013

Vistaprint N.V., a leading online provider of professional marketing products and services to micro businesses and the home, announced financial results for the three month period ended March 31, 2013, the third quarter of its 2013 fiscal year.

Standard Register Continues Upward Performance Trend in Q1
April 30, 2013

Dayton, Ohio-based Standard Register announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2013. The company reported revenue of $141.6 million and a net loss of $2.0 million or $0.07 per share. The results compare to first quarter 2012 revenue of $157.6 million and a net loss of $5.1 million or $0.18 per share.