Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
NewPage Group Inc has filed a registration statement with the SEC yesterday proposing initial public offering of its common stock: NewPage Group Inc. is the parent company of NewPage Corporation. NewPage Corporation, headquartered in Miamisburg, Ohio, is the largest coated paper manufacturer in North America, based on production capacity, with more ...Monday, April 28th, 2008
Coming, maybe, to your state: air-quality rules mandating the use of press solvents containing no more than 100 grams of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) per liter. Coming, perhaps, to your pressroom: problems you didn’t anticipate with s-l-o-w press washups, funky residues, and strange chemical side effects such as “tearing” (as in ...Monday, March 31st, 2008
Richard Dannenberg, owner of the AlphaGraphics in Macon, Georgia wrote a blog post yesterday on the diminishing variety of papers offered by paper manufactures and distributors. Dannenberg recalls an order from a customer who wanted to use “Old Money,” a line of stationery, made from recycled U.S. dollar bills produced by ...Monday, February 11th, 2008
Is the use of paper used within our homes on the decline? Today's New York Times article Pushing Paper Out the Door provides a some clues to the diminishing use of paper in the home: Going paperless was a conscious decision by the Uhliks. But many families may be closer to ...Friday, November 23rd, 2007
The United States International Trade Commission (ITC), the quasi-judicial independent federal agency responsible for investigating matters of trade has determined coated free sheet paper from China, Indonesia, and Korea does not injure U.S. Industry. In a new release, the ITC states, "U.S. industry is neither materially injured nor threatened with ...Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Science Daily is reporting this week that researchers at Duke University have developed a method for printing finely detailed microscopic images with enzymes, rather than inks. Science Daily article The technology could become another tool in the arsenal of the high-security printing and brand protection industry: "With all the advances in ...Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
The world's #2 ink maker Flint Group has announced that they will be increasing prices across product lines for inks sold in North America. Citing continuing and unprecedented rise in raw material, transportation and energy costs. The largest increase will be for Packaging (12% depending on product technology and ...Friday, August 24th, 2007
A Waltham, MA, company called ZINK ("Zero Ink", www.zink.com) is promoting a technology that embeds heat-activated CMYK microcrystals within a durable, water-resistant paper stock. Digital images can be exposed on this stock using extremely compact printing devices—possibly compact enough to be built into camera-equipped cell phones. That's ZINK's primary target ...Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
The IDEAlliance Paper Print Predictability Task Force has annouced the avaiblity of a methodology for describing paper attributes and properties that affect printed color reproduction: Digitizing the front end of printing technologies has created the need for additional information about the materials used throughout the process. Paper plays a vital role in image ...
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