Printer News

BentleyRowland, an award-winning printing and packaging service provider in the mid-Atlantic region, is changing its name to Epic Litho. In response to shifting market needs, the name Epic Litho more accurately reflects the passion, innovation and focus on high-quality printing and customer service that the company has consistently provided for more than 40 years.

Bankrupt photography pioneer Eastman Kodak Co. is losing more executives and plans to cut an additional 1,000 jobs by the end of the year as it shrinks into a commercial printing-focused company.

The latest job cuts follow the reduction of about 2,700 employees globally this year, the Rochester, New York-based company said today in a statement. Kodak is “making progress” in a restructuring that includes selling its consumer-film, photo-kiosk and commercial-scanner businesses and an extended effort to auction its digital-imaging patents.

Kodak also is shaking up its management structure and losing key executives.

InnerWorkings Inc. announced today the results of its first-ever business and economic outlook study. The study reveals the attitudes and perceptions of U.S.-based printing manufacturers in regards to the economy, hiring expectations and business performance.

Inc. Magazine published the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies in August, and several members of the print community made appearances on the list. In total, 50 industry businesses made the list this year. CFC Print Solutions, a business forms provider located in Grand Prairie, Texas, was highest-ranked industry company and the only one to crack the top 500, coming in at number 462.

A unique printing technology which produces photos that react to different angles of light the same way a three-dimensional object does has been developed by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, and 3M.

The technique, which uses special reflectance paper covered with thousands of tiny dimples, was presented in a paper in ACM Transactions on Graphics.

James Davis, associate professor of computer science at UC Santa Cruz, elucidated that regular printed photos look the same despite the angle of the light because flat paper can't reflect light the way three-dimensional objects do.

Odenton, Maryland-based Gasch Printing, a family-owned and operated, digital printer specializing in short-run book printing, was recently ranked for the third straight year among America's Fastest Growing Private Companies in 2012.

Eastman Kodak Company, the iconic film company, has announced changes to the company's core business model as it attempts to emerge from bankruptcy.

Sixty people lost their jobs last Thursday after Infinity Fulfillment Group abruptly closed without warning. Owed three weeks pay, some of the workers spoke with Fox 2 across the street from their former employer.

Infinity leased space from Cenveo in Eureka, Mo., and Cenveo was the only source of business for Infinity. Cenveo officials agreed the workers have been treated poorly, but not by Cenveo. The workers were not employed by Cenveo.

The Obama administration announced the creation of a National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute in Youngstown, Ohio, devoted to promoting 3-D printing technology.

"This institute will help make sure that the manufacturing jobs of tomorrow take root not in places like China or India, but right here in the United States of America," Obama said in a statement. "That's how we'll put more people back to work and build an economy that lasts."

The institute will be financed by $30 million in federal funding, matched by $40 million from a private industry consortium. It is designed to serve Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

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