LAVAL, QB—Impression Tripolli has recently installed a Xerox 700DCP. The six-year-old shop says about 50% of its current work is digital, and also offers wide-format and prepress services to clients in the greater Montreal area.

VILLE D’ANJOU, QB—Commercial printer Au Point Reprotech has added an Agfa AvalonN8 2OS CTP system with an Apogee platemaker to its shop floor. The shop will also be running chemistry-free Azura TS plates, and will receive Agfa’s GreenWorks Environmental Award, given to companies that use Agfa's low or chemistry-free plates.

MONTREAL—The U.S. government has asked a bankruptcy judge to deny Quebecor World’s restructuring plan because of millions owed in unpaid taxes, and environmental fines.

TORONTO—Printcom has added a Heidelberg Polar 78X cutter to its shop floor. Printcom has been in business for more than six years and specializes in magazines, annual reports, booklets and catalogues.

MONTREAL—Transcontinental yesterday announced the sale of its Dumais Street plant in Rimouski, Que., to Groupe L’Avantage, headed up by local businessman Gonzague Drapeau.

OTTAWA—The CPIA is calling for nominations for its third annual Young Printer Award. Anyone in the graphic communications industry age 35 and under is eligible, as long as they currently own or are employed at a firm that prints on the premises.

CHICAGO—Print 09, the largest trade show in North America, is less than three months away. Last week, about 50 editors from 12 countries, including PrintCan, gathered in Chicago to get an exclusive peek at what’s to come in September.

Among the highlights from the show itself is a new packaging print area, a green space focusing on sustainability and the greening of the industry. That’s in addition to recurring features such as a mailing and fulfillment pavilion and a wide-format pavilion.

Print 09 runs September 11 – 16, 2009
For more information or to register, go to print09.com

Highlights of individual exhibitors after the jump

MONTREAL—Former RR Donnelley CEO Mark Angelson will become chairman of Quebecor World Inc., the company announced yesterday after creditors voted in favour of the printer’s reorganization plan.

SKOOKUMCHUCK, B.C.—Tembec has announced that it will not go ahead with the planned shutdown of its pulp mill in Skookumchuck, B.C., near Cranbrook. The two-week shutdown was scheduled for June 29, but has been called off due to some improvements in pulp prices and the $1 billion Pulp and Paper Green Transformation Program, recently announced by the federal government.

TORONTO—By 2013, Internet advertising, including mobile, will be a $2.1 billion industry in Canada, according to predictions from the annual “Global entertainment and media outlook” from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC).