The new dedicated samples are now on air

Pixartprinting is full of surprises: its packaging range has been renewed with new proposals designed to make its customers' lives even easier. A broader offer, and increased quality and resistance are flanked by an absolute novelty: the shipment of pre-mounted boxes, which are laid out but folded over and partly already glued. All of this thanks to the new automated folding and gluing line.

2014 marks 10th time Ricoh will present RSDA at the annual Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF)

Ricoh Americas Corporation will continue to support the ingenuity of young scientists as an important investment in building a sustainable society by honoring high school students this spring at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF). Winners are those students who have developed brilliant innovations for driving environmentally and socially responsible businesses.

Expansion Will Enhance Postal Savings Opportunities for Direct Mail Marketers

Quad/Graphics, Inc. (NYSE: QUAD), is strengthening its market leading direct marketing platform with a multimillion-dollar expansion of its East Coast commingling center in Westampton, N.J. The expansion includes six new state-of-the-art letter sorters housed in newly leased space that will enhance clients' postal savings opportunities and mail delivery efficiencies.

Extends and Expands Relationship for Directory Production Through 2020

R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company (Nasdaq:RRD) announced today that it has been awarded a $250 million multi-year agreement by Dex Media for directory production that renews and significantly expands the companies' relationship through 2020. Under the terms of the agreement, RR Donnelley will produce approximately 1,700 directory titles each year, totaling more than 87 million copies annually. In addition, approximately 200 titles, totaling more than 190,000 copies, will be produced on their digital platform.

Steered by Administration of Press and Publication of Guangdong Province, Guangdong Provincial Publishing Group, organized by China Foreign Trade Centre (Group) and Adsale Exhibition Services Ltd, the largest sourcing platform in China for the world's printers, "The 21st Printing South China" and "Sino-Label 2014" grandly commences on 3rd March at the China Import & Export Fair Complex, Guangzhou, P.R. China.

Mike Parker who helped popularise Helvetica died this week. You won't find a graphic designer who isn't familiar with the typeface (released in 1957 under its original name Neue Haas Grotesk). But Helvetica is one of the most well known typefaces among non-designers, too. Why is that asks graphic designer David Airey.

Helvetica in Motion

Mike in his own words

There's no better way to pay tribute to a great typographer than to assign him a rock and roll past.

By Ned Hepburn on February 28, 2014

Mike Parker, 85, died at his home in Portland, Maine. He was, as some call him, the grandfather of modern typography, having made (or made famous) many of the fonts that we ignore in favor of Helvetica every day. Luckily, Helvetica is his baby. Perhaps you've heard of it? It's one of the most popular fonts in the world.

If you haven't, we've cobbled together an oral history of Mike's influence, described by the fonts themselves. 

William Denzen, general manager of rollfed and Red Rock Technologies business units for Smyth Companies is the 2014 recipient of Printing Industries of America's Managing for Improvement Award. The award is bestowed each year on a manager in the printing industry who has demonstrated the ability to create real and lasting improvement for his or her company.

Denzen was selected by the judges from numerous nominations received nationwide. The nomination underscored his ongoing ability to lead people, teams, and projects to higher levels of performance.

Dr. Sam T. Ingram, Professor of Graphic Communications and Department Chair at Clemson University, Yoshiharu Komori, Chairman, President, and CEO, Komori Corporation, and George Ryan, President and CEO of the Printing Association of Florida, have been named the recipients of the 2014 Michael H. Bruno Award for outstanding contributions to the Graphic Arts Industry.