VANCOUVER—Longtime industry member Dell Fraser died on July 17 at the age of 82.

Fraser started his career at Hazeldine Press and then Smith Lithograph, which became Smith Grant Mann in Richmond, B.C.

TORONTO—Symcor is installing a second Océ Jetstream 1500 colour inkjet system this summer to support its thriving transpromo business.

BURLINGTON, ONT.—Bar coding and data collections solutions provider Total Solutions in partnership with Primera Technology recently hosted an open house.


Mike Atkins, Regional sales manager from Primera Technology and
George Shaw, Total Solutions Inc.

TORONTO—In its July report ZenithOptimedia upgraded its forecast for global ad growth this year from 2.2% to 3.5%. This is the third upgrade in a row for the report, following six consecutive downgrades in recent years.


Canadian adspend by medium 2009

MONTRÉAL—Datachrome, a printer which specializes in the retail clothing market has recently installed a Fujifilm Acuity Advance ColorGate RIP solution.


Fujifilm account manager Daniel Montpetit, Datachrome
pre-press manager Dennis O'Shea, operator Jonatham Lim

WINNIPEG—NorQuest College recently received $896,750 for its Centre for Excellence in Print Media from Western Economic Diversification.


Seated: Dr. Jodi Abbott, president NorQuest College, Wendy Kinsella, 
Board Chair NorQuest, Minister of State Lynne Yellich Standing:
Josh Ramsbottom, Coordinator Centre for  Excellence Print Media 
NorQuest College

TORONTO—Following a two-year trial period in the U.S., Hewlett Packard is taking its print-on-demand magazine business MagCloud worldwide.

DELTA, B.C.—Direct marketing and fulfillment services company Contac Services Inc. has installed a Roland 504 and Roland 706 press from Manroland.

MONTREAL—The Postmedia Network Canada Corp. owned Montreal Gazette has announced it will stop publishing its Sunday print edition in August and move to a web-only version of the paper that day.

MORTSEL, BELGIUM—Early this morning Agfa Graphics announced it had agreed to buy the assets of Harold M. Pitman Co., a large distributor in the U.S. of prepress, industrial inkjet, pressroom and packaging printing products.
According to Agfa, the deal will increase its revenue in the U.S. to more than US$500 million. It will also swell its payroll by more than 500 employees and boost its footprint by more than 16 location throughout the country.