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17 October 2018
International Print Day

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Printers, suppliers and others in the industry around the world are getting involved with International Print Day  (17 October).The annual global event aims to use social media to highlight the creativity, importance and power of print and paper – and to get both trending on Twitter and other social media platforms.

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17 October 2018
Hogan's Printing Burns Down

WINDSOR—

40 years goes up in smoke
40 years goes up in smoke
On Tuesday morning Hogan's Printing burned down. The shop occupied about 25000 sq. Ft.. All the digital presses and screen printing equipment was destroyed. A neighbour discovered fire shooting out the front window of Hogan's Printing . For Hogan's Printing co-founder Doug Hogan," waking up to find out your business had been destroyed was a shock.

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17 October 2018
Steve Daigle Joins HP

MONTREAL—

Steve Daigle with HP
Steve Daigle with HP
HP Canada has announce the addition of Steve Daigle to the General Commercial Sales team. Steve brings with him 25 years of experience in the industry; He’ll be responsible for HP Indigo’s full product line in Eastern Canada, as well as the HP PageWide web press solutions. 

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17 October 2018
Montreal Print Show Moves to 2020

MONTREAL—
 
The next Grafik'Art Montreal Show will take place in Spring 2020 at Place Bonaventure in Montreal.The decision to postpone Grafik'Art Montréal to the spring of 2020 is to alternate between the Montreal and Toronto tradeshows.2010 will be the tenth edition of Grafik'Art Montreal.

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10 October 2018
CPIA Relaunches Canadian Association

VANCOUVER—

80 year old industry association given new life
80 year old industry association given new life
Canadian Printing Industries Association (CPIA) has announce the launch of a newly restructured  industry association  . The CPIA now operates under a new membership structure with  six regional print associations and one supplier association. Each association will have one or two members on the board of CPIA depending on their size.

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10 October 2018
Boss Logo Bankruptcy Numbers are Out

MARKHAM—

Former Boss Logo Plant
Former Boss Logo Plant
Boss Logo which went into receivership and now bankruptcy at the beginning of September had assets of $4,920 and liabilities so far of $4,366,795. The assets include over $3 million for equipment and $153,845 for Loans receivable. Some equipment people have question the value of $3 million. The largest creditor is the TD Bank for $3,250,000 who also appointed the receiver.

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10 October 2018
Forced To Go Paperless, push back

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Keep Me Posted is a global campaign that advocates for the right of every consumer to choose, free of charge, how they receive important information – on paper or electronically – from their service providers (ex: banks, telecoms, utilities, insurance).

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10 October 2018
KKP Location Rebrands As Allegra

PICKERING. ONTARIO—

Formally Kwik Kopy
Formally Kwik Kopy
KKP Pickering has rebranded it's self as Allegra Marketing Print Mail. After running under the KKP and Kwik Kopy banner for 34 years. They have also moved to a new location which is  twice the space as their old location. They have  added additional equipment and

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3 October 2018
Webcom Sold to Marquis Book Printing

SCARBOROUGH— 

 
Marquis Book Printing Inc., has announced that it has acquired Webcom Inc. This creates Canada's largest book printer bypassing Friesens and Transcontinental with sales over $100 million. Marquis will have  an annual production capacity of over 100 million books. With  three  printing plants Louiseville Quebec, Montmagny Qurbec and Toronto Ontario with over a total of 420,000 sq. ft of space and over 600 employees.

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3 October 2018
Heidelberg to Buy MBO Folders

GERMANY—

MBO and Stahl under Heidelberg
MBO and Stahl under Heidelberg
 Heidelberg is to acquire rival folder manufacturer MBO Group in a bid to expand its presence in the  post-press market.The move will see the company gain access to new customers in the pharmaceutical industry and add mailing system offerings to its offset portfolio and gain access to  new customer in commercial printing  field.

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