- Kirkwood Holdings has bought digital printer Nu Graphics for an undisclosed sum as part of a strategy to boost its digital footprint.
- ProLabel has installed an entry-level Xeikon 3030 as the US flexo industry continues its shift toward digital labels.
- Danaher Corporation has made a cash offer for X-Rite, owner of design industry color provider Pantone, with the deal for the colour management specialist broadly welcomed by shareholders and senior executives.
- Flint Group North America has blamed rising raw material costs, including crude oil, for price hikes across a range of its sheetfed and web offset ink, varnish and press wash products.
- Heidelberg USA announced this week that it is bringing several new digital presses to the North American market, with the goal of providing traditional offset commercial printers with entry-level options for entering the market.
- Ripon, WI-based Ripon Printer has acquired the presses and other assets of New Berlin, WI-based Sells Printing as it looks to expand its capabilities in printed catalogs, publications, manuals, and soft-cover educational products.
- Manroland US web and sheetfed divisions will share some backend functions for the time being in an effort to get up and running quickly following their sale to separate companies.
- Durham, NC-based PBM Graphics announced the install of a Mark Andy Performance Series P7 flexographic press as it looks to build on its packaging, labeling and collectible trading card business.
- Ferrostaal is rolling out several Ryobi state-of-the-art sheetfed printing presses across North America , taking advantage of the pre-drupa hype among US commercial printers to showcase equipment as well as the company's advances in LED-UV curing and specialty casting and foiling.
- OKI Data Americas has added two new Canadian distributors - Ontario-based Northern Graphic Solutions and Winnipeg's Canadian Printing Equipment - as it looks build out its reseller network for its growing line of proColor high definition color printers.
- Quad/Graphics has become the latest major US printer to unveil a cross-media strategy, following the formation of Quad/Graphics Media Solutions, which it said would help customers better leverage emerging mobile and digital platforms.
- Phoenix-based graphic printing, fine art reproduction and themed-environment firm Image Craft this week acquired Denver-based Qube Visual, a 30-year printer producing everything from POP and trade show signage to ads and other visuals in Denver's Pepsi Center sports/entertainment arena.
- Montreal-based Transcontinental will be closing two of the six printing facilities it acquired in an asset swap with Quad/Graphics announced last year, but only formalized a few weeks ago.
- HP has moved to reassure printers of its ongoing commitment to the commercial print sector following yesterday's announcement of the merger of its commercial print and PC divisions.
- Kodak has signed a partnership deal that makes Chicago-area printing equipment reseller Graphic Innovators an authorized sales agent for Prosper printheads to complement its direct sales force.
- Stamford, CT-based Pitney Bowes this week unveiled a host of enhancements to its IntelliJet Printing Systems, including higher print speed options for the HP inkjet-based technology aimed at high-volume transactional mailers.
- San Diego-based inkjet manufacturer Memjet is targeting Drupa to showcase the versatility of its core waterfall printheads, which can jet more than 700m drops of ink a second, across a broad range of OEM partners and applications.
- Thanks in part of a surge in short-run printing, Andover, MA-based post-press and paper handling equipment reseller Standard Finishing Systems this week announced several new installs of Hunkeler and Horizon solutions for the print-on-demand markets.
- To boost scale in the competitive Houston commercial printing market, local companies Ideal Printers and PrintMailers announced this week they are merging to form Seebridge Media.
- Looking to build out a national network focused on data management as well as printing, Milwaukee, WI-based First Edge Solutions has acquired Print1 Direct, an Atlanta-based provider of POD, direct marketing, and document output services.
