WINNIPEG—

 PrintPro Digital & Offset Printing has installed  the first Xerox Iridesse™ Production Press in Canada.Iridesse is equipped with six toner stations, can print metallic gold or silver dry ink, CMYK and clear dry ink in a single pass. PrintPro plans to use Iridesse as its primary digital colour press to serve its customers. The firm produces a wide range of applications including marketing collateral, flyers, postcards, tags, direct mail, catalogs, guides, manuals and annual reports.

VANCOUVER—

  Cansel has  announce  the creation of COBALT Graphics Distribution, a new independent company focused on the graphics communications market. COBALT will operate as a national distributor of wide format, flexographic and offset products to the printing market in Canada. Cansel is combining Ernest Green & Son with the graphic arts divisions of 7 other acquisitions they  have made over the last 8 years.

MISSISAUGA—

ROCHESTER, NY—

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 It is with great sorrow that Koenig & Bauer  announces the untimely passing of Tim McKeon, Senior Vice President of Service and Operations, Sheetfed Division, after a brief illness.  Tim was a loyal member of the Koenig & Bauer family for almost 40 years having started his career as a field service mechanic/technician with Royal Zenith, a predecessor company of Koenig & Bauer. 

TORONTO—

MISSISSAUGA— 

One of Canada's largest privately held paper companies has gotten involved  in the political side of the current tariff war with the US. Kruger has come out with a marketing campaign " We Buy on Guard from Thee!". They sight a wave of red and white purchasing is sweeping the nation as Canadian consumers look to put their money where their flag is.

MONTREAL—

ROCHESTER—

Kodak is looking at the possibility of selling off it's flexible-packaging division. The division sell flexo plates and equipment for the label packaging segment of the printing industry. The division does about $145 million in sales and generates $31 million in profit.

LEXINGTON, MA—

Vistaprint is building a new $55 million plant in Dallas, Texas. The Plant will be 322,000 square feet. It  will employe about 600 people with 150 white collar jobs and 450 manufacturing jobs. The City of Dallas is giving Vistaprint $1.7 tax incentives. Including $300,000 in job training.