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C-Line® Products Inc., Mount Prospect, Ill., introduced Peel & Stick Display Pockets and Black-backed Cubicle Keepers™ document holders. Display Pockets are tape-backed polypropylene holders that attach to walls, doors and windows without damaging surfaces. They feature a drop-front design to ease loading and unloading of frequently used documents such as calendars and schedules. Black-backed Cubicle Keepers are sturdy, non-glare polypropylene document holders with Velcro® backs that attach to office wall panels. They feature metallic black backing, which allows documents to stand out. Applications include storing and displaying office documents. For more information, call (800) 323-6084. Visit www.c-lineproducts.com.
The Ohio facility of Ward/ Kraft Inc., based in Fort Scott, Kan., offers gift cards and hotel key cards with advertising messages. The firm partnered with New Market Solutions, a Cleveland-based software company, to provide gift cards, loyalty program software and magnetic stripe readers. Ward/Kraft's Hotel Key Card Advertising program converts hotel keys to "mini-billboards" advertising local businesses and attractions. In addition, Ward/Kraft added DiversiForm to its Strategic Alliance Partner Program and now offers DiversiForm's patented Seal 4 automotive buyers' guide labels that seal on all four sides with weather-resistant adhesive. In addition, Ward/Kraft placed a 6-color Aqua Flex press in its Fredericktown, Ohio, facility, to produce durable synthetic materials with non-fade inks. Applications include labels used in harsh environments. The new press complements the facility's 6-color, 22-inch UV offset press. Ward/Kraft also added equipment to produce multipart laser cut sheet forms at its Fredericktown and Fort Scott, Kan., facilities. For a card marketing kit, call (800) 351-9302. Contact the Kansas location at (800) 821-4021. Send email to cards@wardkraft.com. Visit www.wardkraft.com.
Trade Envelopes Inc., based in Carol Stream, Ill., offers preprinted utility cash payment envelopes, featuring remoistenable gummed flaps and black stock imprinting. Options include custom imprinting, sizes and styles. Applications include payments to municipalities, phone companies and utilities. For more information, call (800) 669-9750.
The Flesh Company, based in St. Louis, offers integrated cards and labels. In addition, the firm installed a 22-inch, 8-color Didde press at its Parsons, Kan., facility. The 18-inch web press allows the company to print four over four and 4-color process jobs. Applications include coupons, fliers and other promotional pieces. For more information, call (800) 760-2945 or (314) 781-2350, ext. 345. Visit www.fleshco.com.
Laser Excel, a Green Lake, Wis., producer of laser cut graphics in plastic, acrylic, wood and other materials, offers laser cut designs for corporate holiday cards. For more information, call (800) 559-7965. Visit www.laserexcel.com.
Powis Parker, a Berkeley, Calif., binding solutions provider, offers its desktop Powis Parker Scoring Machine. Designed for use with bind-on-demand systems such as the Powis Parker Model 15xs Fastback® binder, the machine allows users to center titles on book spines and to preview where it will score books. It handles up to 20-pt. paper card and cover stock in sheets measuring up to 13 x 20 inches. Applications include on-demand, perfect-bound books up to 11Ž2 inches thick with lay-flat or fully bound spines. For more information, call (510) 848-2463 or (510) 848-2462 (fax). Send email to kparker@powis.com.
Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N.Y., introduced its 2400DSV and 3000DSV digital scanner-printers with extended film scanning capabilities. The 2400DSV features a 12 x 12-inch display screen. The 3000DSV features a 11 x 17-inch screen and can handle larger workloads more quickly. Both include Kodak's PowerFilm Scanning and Indexing Application software, enabling users to print directly from film, publish CDs, and distribute image data through third-party fax and email packages. The scanner-printers also feature interchangeable film carriers, allowing users to scan images on microfiche, jackets, 35 mm film and aperture cards. Applications include on-demand scanning and printing. Kodak also offers Capture Software for its i50 and i60 high-speed desktop scanners. The software features high-speed image capturing, a user-friendly interface, and output formats for many imaging and document management systems. For more information, call (888) 368-6600. Visit www.kodak.com or www.kodak.com/go/docimaging.
Ads On A Roll LLC, Memphis, Tenn., introduced its Mobile Advertising System, a vehicular advertising display. It features Action Graphix's Tri-Action triangle-shaped boards that rotate in 5 to 20-second intervals and offer nine possible display surfaces on a vehicle's sides and back. A 12 x 6-foot frame encloses the sides, and a 6 x 6-foot frame encloses the back. At night, side-mounted lights illuminate the displays. According to the firm, the system is highly maneuverable in traffic. Patents are pending. For more information, call (888) 324-9880 or (901) 324-1212.
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Label Works®, North Mankato, Minn., offers sales tools, including its Custom Printed Labels mini-catalog, label brochures, black-and-white advertising graphics and slicks, clear plastic label overlays, "We Do Labels" promotional labels, and Label Mate™ portfolios that each showcase more than 30 labels. Call (800) 522-3558. Visit www.labelworks.com.
LEM Products, Doylestown, Pa., was certified as a Women's Business Enterprise by the Women's Business Enterprise Council. Call (800) 220-2400 or (800) 355-1414 (fax). Send email to moconnor@idsolutions.com.
NPC Inc., Claysburg, Pa., broke ground Aug. 5 for expansion of its facility. The expansion, scheduled for completion in January 2003, will nearly double the size of the facility. The firm added 60 new employees and plans to add approximately 25 employees in the next three years. Call (814) 239-8787 or (814) 239-8706 (fax).
First Source Label Systems Inc. moved to 900 47th St. S.W., Ste. J, Wyoming, MI 49509. Send mail and remits to P.O. Box 801, Jenison, MI 49429-0801. Call (888) 742-0029, (616) 530-8704, or (616) 530-8739 (fax). Email art to fslabels@iserv.net. Send email to david1fs@iserv.net.
Data Management Center moved to 2246 Palmer Dr., Bldg. 107, Schaumburg, IL 60173-3852. The firm offers information management, data processing, variable imaging, fulfillment, and messaging via mail, fax, email and web. Call (847) 397-3500 or (847) 397-0661 (fax). Send email to info@dmcilink.com. Visit www.dmcilink.com.
Ultra Forms Plus, Kalamazoo, Mich., installed a 2-color sheet-fed press to enhance production and reduce turnaround times. Applications include laser checks in runs of 500 to 20,000. Call (800) 531-2101, (616) 337-6000, or (616) 337-6003 (fax).
Hutchison Allgood Printing Co., Winston-Salem, N.C., earned ISO 9001:2000 certification for its quality management system, including its customer focus, leadership, continual improvement and mutually beneficial supplier relationships. "We are very pleased our employees' hard work and total commitment to the quality management system has been recognized with this certificate," said Allie A. Hutchison Jr., the firm's president. Call (336) 769-0000. Send email to alhutchison@haprinting.com.
Racin Printing Inc., Mantua, Ohio, installed a PISCES JetPlate System. The computer-to-plate system recently won a 2002 GATF InterTech Technology Award. It enables the firm to accept digital information via email, disk or CD and inexpensively image the information on conventional subtractive aluminum plates. Racin offers 11 x 171Ž2-inch, non-heatset, uncoated web printing in up to six colors. Call (800) 727-3388, (330) 274-2297 or (330) 274-8919 (fax). Visit www.nobullprint.com.
Spectrum Printers, Tecumseh, Mich., installed a Xeikon DCP 320 D digital color press to enhance short run and variable data printing applications, including brochures and catalogs. Call (800) 225-7947, (517) 423-5735 or (517) 423-2088 (fax).
Northeast Thermography, Wallingford, Conn., installed a 4-color Ryobi 3304HA press and a Printware Platestream SC computer-to-plate platemaker. The additions enable the firm to print full-color and multiple spot colors in a single pass, to offer full-color thermographic business cards and flat-printed photographic products, and to achieve higher print quality on its 2- and 4-color presses. Call (203) 269-9696.
Quality Color Graphics, Pewaukee, Wis., offers Staccato screening technology, which replaces halftone screening for offset printing. Advantages include consistently vibrant colors, a wider array of colors, finer detail, smooth facial gradients and vignettes, shorter drying times and more. Call (262) 650-6000 or (262) 650-6010 (fax). Visit www.quality-color.com.
Qualteq Inc., a Visa/MasterCard manufacturer in South Plainfield, N.J., licensed its Foil Card® process of graphically printing on cards' mirror foil surfaces to Versatile Card Technology Inc. (VCT), which owns secure card manufacturing plants in the United States and India. VCT will market the cards under the name "Versafoil." Call (908) 668-0999, ext. 213. Visit www.qualteq.com.
Perfect Plastic Printing Corp., St. Charles, Ill., is certified to produce Visa smart card products through its strategic alliance with Orga Card Systems. Call (630) 584-1600 or (630) 584-0648 (fax). Send email to doug@perfectplastic.com or hreinsel@orga.com.
AWARDS
Flottman Company, Crestview Hills, Ky., won a 2002 Premier Print Award from Printing Industries of America for outstanding achievement on 4-color newsletter work. The firm competed against more than 4,800 entries worldwide. Flottman Company also was named the 15th fastest-growing printer in the United States by American Printer magazine. The firm's sales grew 91 percent from 1999 to 2001. To be eligible for the ranking, printers had to be in business for three years and have sales of more than $1 million in 2001. Call (859) 331-6636 or (859) 344-7085 (fax). Visit www.flottmanco.com.
PRINT-TECH Promotional Group, Madison, Wis., was named the fastest-growing printer in Wisconsin for the third consecutive year and the 11th fastest-growing printer in the United States by American Printer magazine. The firm's sales grew 107 percent from 1999 to 2001. Call (800) 682-7746, (608) 241-5027, or (608) 241-5067 (fax). Visit www.ptpromo.com.
RANDOM NOTES
RMF Printing Technologies Inc., Lancaster, N.Y., celebrated its 20th anniversary with an employee-appreciation luncheon. Employees received monogrammed golf shirts. Forty percent of RMF's employees have worked for the firm for more than 10 years, according to the company. Call (800) 828-7999 or (800) 828-7393 (fax). Send email to custserv@rmfprinttechnology.com.
