Printer News

Plockmatic International AB has acquired Morgana Systems Ltd. of the UK. The acquisition dramatically expands the two companies’ distribution capacity and product line.

All day we're bombarded by the lightning-fast flash of alphabet in emails, texts and electronic messages.

Who stops to linger over the unique shapes of letters—their grace and vintage, flourishes and quirks that have kept them around, in some cases, for generations?

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 Dec. 31, 2012, the second quarter of its 2013 fiscal year.

Rochester, New York-based Eastman Kodak Company has completed a transaction for the sale and licensing of its digital imaging patents for net proceeds of $527 million.

Avery Dennison Corporation has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Office and Consumer Products (OCP) and Designed and Engineered Solutions (DES) businesses to CCL Industries Inc. for $500 million in cash.

Plymouth, Massachusetts-based Flint Group recently launched an offset UV ink series designed to excel on today’s high-speed presses.

Headquartered in Stamford, Conn., Cenveo Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cenveo Inc., has obtained a $50 million unsecured term loan due 2017 from Macquarie Capital.

A printing business that's been in operation in Englewood Cliffs for 90 years plans to close this year, citing a stagnant economy and faltering industry chipping away at profits for more than a decade.

Handford Brown Co. Inc. has been running since Jay Handford Brown founded the money envelope and stationery manufacturing plant in 1923.

But now William MacPhail, the grandson of Brown's wife who has been running the company since 1960, plans to stop its machines by the end of the year, not only because of his age—he is 77—but because of changing technology and the challenging economic climate.

Chicago-based printing giant RR Donnelley will close its printing facility at W6545 Quality Drive in Greenville before the end of April.

The company said in a WARN notice filed with the state Department of Workforce Development last week that the move will affect 47 jobs.

A Dutch architect is thinking a little bigger about 3-D printing than the tiny-to-midsize trinkets we've seen so far.

He wants to print a house. And a pretty offbeat and innovative one at that.

"Landscape House" is the brainchild of architect Janjaap Ruijssenaars. He describes it as "one surface folded in an endless Mobius band," or sort of a giant figure 8. According to its creator, walking through its continuous looping design will seamlessly merge indoors and outdoors.

The house would cost between $5 million and $6 million, and there's already been interest expressed by museums and private individuals.