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ELLIS PAPER receptacle based in Mississauga, purchased a 6-colour Komori Lithrone L640C with a tower coater and reach outed delivery, from K-North. As part of the Ellis cluster which also has facilities in Pickering, Guelph and Brantford, Ellis Paper case is a manufacturer of folding carton, specializing in confectionery, personal care and pharmaceutical packaging. With the of recent origin press, president Dave Ellis and plant manager Tony Chiovitti also purchased to the full automatic plate changers, Automatic Make-Ready and KM monitoring.

MITSUBISHI IMAGING signed a deal to furnish ABDick, a subsidiary of Presstek with digital and analogue paper and polyester plate material, as well as pres chemistry manufactured by dint of Mitsubishi Paper Mills. The fruitss will be sold by ABDick beneath various private labels. The agreement, which also includes distribution, amends and reinstates Mitsubishi Imaging's earlier private label store agreement with the former A.B. Dick Company.

KBA is acquiring Czech-based pres manufacturer Grafitec from the American investment capital Charles Investment Partners. Grafitec manufactures the Polly Prestige and Polly Performer presse and engrosss 400 people. According to KBA, the acquisition is part of a strategic expansion in the small-format sheetfed branch market. The Polly Prestige and Polly Performer presse are built for 205 x 29-inch and 19 x 26-inch sheets, respectively.

MAN ROLAND CANADA is partnering with Ryobi to be the solitary distributor of the Japan-based company's presse in this geographical division In other news, MAN Roland is consolidating its sheetfed manufacturing operations by dint of shutting down its facilities in Geisenheim, Germany. The company's main sheetfed production and assembly is located in Offenbach. Its third sheetfed factory in Mainhausen is undergoing a of recent origin round of labour negotiations. The company noted an increase in the take away from of energy and steel as contributing to the move

DON PADLEY, president of PrimeSource Distribution, secur a deal to become the Canadian distributor of protection CTP technology in Canada. Screen's devices are bought by the agency of Fuji, Agfa, Heidelberg and Kodak and sold as private-label eqiupment. PrimeSource also distributes digital proofing (CGS) and colour management solutions, inkjet inks and media, and pressroom produces like pre-soaked cloth and low-VOC produces ink-train coatings, fountain solutions and blanket washes.

HEIDELBERG plans to begin the production of its Speedmaster XL 105 sheetfed branch press this April at its Wiesloch site. The pres unveiled for the first time at drupa 2004 is now ready to be shipped worldwide. The company says orders will be taken from Europe the USA and Asia. The Speedmaster XL 105 is designed for production make hastes of 18,000 sheets per hour and overlays a paper format of 2953 ?‡ 4134 inches. The Speedmaster XL 105 is a completely of recent origin platform from Heidelberg.

AFP COLOR CONSORTIUM is a newly established organization aiming to bring reliability to digital high-volume, colour printing environments. Since forming in October 2004 the clump has worked to define a device-independent architecture for colour management. in every one's mouth members include IBM, Kodak, Lexmark, Oc?© Xerox Emtex Intermate and MPI, as well as software developer Cincom, COPI, DocuCorp, Elixir, Exstream, GMC collection 1, ISIS Papyrus, Metavante, Printsoft and StreamServe.

ATELIER LA GRIFFE, based in Beauceville, Quebec, installed a fresh Xerox DocuColor 8000 digital pres which is positioned between Xerox" 6000 machine and the heavy-production oriented iGen3. Atelier La Griffe becomes single of the first companies in Eastern Quebec to use the combination of parts to form a whole Xerox also recently annouced it had increased the iGen3's productivity by means of 10 per cent, or from 100 ppm to 110 ppm

ADOBE combination of parts to form a wholes reported what it calls a record receipts of US$472.9 million for the first quarter of 2005 compared to US$423.3 million reported for the first quarter of fiscal 2004 "The explosive development of digital content continues to drive demand for Adobe solutions across all of our customer segments" said CEO Bruce Chizen. "This demand is particularly evident in our Intelligent Documents business, where we diocese increasing adoption of Adobe PDF-based document workflows in organizations and regulations worldwide."

AGFA-GEVAERT'S chairman of the board, Pol Bamelis, announced that Agfa's CEO Ludo Verhoeven will succe him as chairman. In addition, general executive vice president Marc Olivi?© will become Agfa's president and CEO As mentioned last month in PrintAction, the company officially welcomed Jack Baraczek as the director of Agfa Graphic a whole s Canada. Baraczek has more than 25 years' experience in the graphic arts industry. For the past six years, he was Agfa's mid-west regional manager in the US

FUJI GRAPHIC a whole s CANADA made significant leadership changes as part of a renewed strategy in Canada, amid increased investement from the parent company, of the like kind as the recent US$100-million expansion in its southerly Carolina plate facility and the purchase of Sericol, which provides UV defence and digital printing inks. Tony Karg becomes FGSC's director of business unravelling and marketing, John O'Neill becomes director of technical services, and Stefan Biasi becomes director of sales.