Category Archive: Printing Industry

GED buys Romania’s largest printing company

Spain-based private equity firm GED acquired 92% of Infopress, the largest provider of printing services in Romania, for an estimated €12 million, the legal adviser in the deal, Biris Goran announced.

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EDS has selected DiMS!

After an intensive and extensive search for an MIS/ERP system, Euro-Druckservice (EDS) has selected DiMS! organizing print to implement their world leading DiMS! MIS/ERP system in all of their heatset locations. DiMS! won over EDS based on its clean, superior architectural design and the credible customer references the system brings with it.

via worldgraphicarts.com

Andreas Bernhardt – CEO @ EDS

Andreas Bernhardt

Euro-Druckservice GmbH (EDS) has now a new CEO. Andreas Bernhardt took over on Thursday the top job at the Passau company.

In recent years Andreas Bernhardt has gained extensive management experience, including as CEO of Alcatel SEL AG, as Executive Vice President at Siemens COM and partner of the personnel advisory company Boyden Interim Management.

via druck-medien.net

Big Budget vs. Big Index

big budget vs. big index

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Flexography

Flexography (often abbreviated to flexo) is a form of printing process which utilizes a flexible relief plate. It is basically an updated version of letterpress that can be used for printing on almost any type of substrate including plastic, metallic films, cellophane, and paper. It is widely used for printing on the non-porous substrates required for various types of food packaging (it is also well suited for printing large areas of solid color).

Manroland GB transfers post-press to Friedhelm International

Printing press manufacturer manroland Great Britain, and Friedheim International, a leading supplier of finishing, converting and packaging machinery, have today announced the transfer of the UK sales and service representation for guillotine and binding systems manufacturer, Wohlenberg, and Baumann handling equipment, from manroland GB to Friedheim International. Read more ….

Printing & Prepress Basics

… this article will discuss offset lithography printing specifically, which is the more standard means of producing most any printed work in mass quantities. Read more …

Society doesn’t need newspapers

Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable, a great post by Clay Shirky.

How To: Build your own letterpress

A tutorial written by Steven LECKART @ BoingBoing

Can good design save the newspaper?

Jacek Utko is an extraordinary Polish newspaper designer whose redesigns for papers in Eastern Europe not only win awards, but increase circulation by up to 100%. Watch his talk @ TED …