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News on suppliers to the packaging printing industry, including items on Precision AirConvey and the Heidelberg and Ricoh agreement.

News on suppliers to the package printing industry, including Mark Andy, Heidelberg, acpo ltd., Bunting Magnetics, Presstek, Martin Automatic, and more.

As anyone engaged in the packaging design business knows, color consistency is a key bjective across the brand platform. In fact, the best impression-making brands use the highest quality color techniques to ensure bright, impacting and unique visuals.

TUEBINGEN—GMG, supplier of high-end color management and proofing solutions, announced that the company has achieved significant sales growth in the first half of 2008. Sales growth compared to the previous half-year has been achieved in every six-month period since 2004, which now means eight times in succession. So far in 2008, GMG has been able to increase sales by slightly more than 10 percent compared to the same period of 2007 (and almost 30 percent compared to the corresponding period of 2006). This is impressive confirmation of GMG’s sustained growth. Sales in Asia more than doubled in comparison with the corresponding period of the

Whether they are political or technological, most revolutions give way to a period of fine-tuning and incremental improvement. Having shown that they can meet the needs of packaging houses for fast, affordable concept and interim proofing, digital inkjet devices up to 44˝ in width now are proving that they also can satisfy the rigorous demands of legal contract proofing for high-end packaging applications. Traditionally, inkjet has had difficulties in reproducing trap and overprint characteristics, fine lines and text, moiré patterns, light pastels, and metallics, and has needed special media and color management tools. Because of these issues, brand-sensitive clients still may specify a

Tuebingen, GERMANY—GMG, supplier of high-end color management and proofing solutions, announced that the company had been able to achieve an extraordinary increase in sales in the first half of 2007. The continuous growth is reflected in the fact that in each month the respective value of the previous year was surpassed. To date, GMG has succeeded in boosting its sales in 2007 by just over 14 percent compared to the same period of 2006 (almost 50 percent compared to the corresponding period of 2005), thus impressively underlining the sustained growth of GMG. Sales outside Germany rose rapidly and now account for well over two-thirds

TUEBINGEN, Germany—GMG, supplier of color management and proofing solutions, announced that the company achieved an extraordinary increase in sales in 2006, owing to further expansion of distribution activities in almost all regions. It was extremely pleasing to note that sales rose steadily with a record month in December. In the past year, GMG succeeded in boosting its sales by 40 percent compared to 2005, a year (like 2004) in which sales had already risen by more than 50 percent compared to the previous year. Germany again showed very pleasing development in 2006 and continues to be GMG’s largest single market. Numerous international markets demonstrated

Maxcess International recruited Lee Nanney to provide local sales and support for Fife, MAGPOWR, and Tidland. Also, Scott Haney joined the Maxcess management team as product manager. Presstek, Inc. appointed Klaus Schleicher to director, international business development. Ernie Stokes Sr. joined Lederle as director of international sales. Harper Corporation America announced that Ron Case was promoted to production supervisor at the company’s Charlotte, N.C. facility. The Montalvo Corporation promoted Joseph Croyle to the position of applications specialist. Kodak’s Graphic Communications Group has named Michael K. Howard vice president of marketing for its Digital Printing Solutions business. Davis-Standard, LLC promoted Robert M. Armstrong to vice president and chief financial officer. Sandvik

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The world’s going digital; ain’t no doubt about it—at least in my humble opinion. Digital technology has a firm foothold in printing, especially in the front end of the process—in prepress. Computer-to-plate is firmly entrenched in offset printing and is well on its way in flexo (see “CTP Flexo: Preaching to the Printers,” p. 16). The reasons for this encroachment into prepress are primarily based on cost savings and quality improvement. The future growth of digital printing for packaging and labeling will not only embrace these aspects, but will also include the capability for unique, distinctive graphic and text content that is just not