Printing

R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company and KBA AG announced an agreement to develop and sell next-generation piezoelectric digital inkjet printing solutions to the packaging, securities, commercial and newspaper segments.

Kodak's Graphic Communications Group will increase prices of digital and conventional plates as of May 1, 2011 in all regions of the world.

Graphic Connections Group, a commercial printing, advertising specialties, direct mail and graphic design firm, announces the acquisition of TFT Embroidery.

WorkflowOne is implementing workflow and web-based collaborative client software from KODAK Unified Workflow Solutions, an open infrastructure to manage both conventional and digital print production.

Small cap stocks have outperformed large and mid caps this year, and growth stocks have outperformed value stocks in all 3 market cap sizes.

On December 2, 2010 Calais, Maine-based Foamworx acquired Penmar/Diversified Novelties. The combined entity will operate under the Foamworx brand name. Richard Langer, formerly of Diversified Novelties, will continue to work for Foamworx in business development and sales.

St. Paul, Minnesota-based 3M has added automatic face and text detection to its Visual Attention Service, a web-based scanning tool that digitally evaluates the impact of creative and graphic designs.

Bakersfield, California-based Multi Business Systems, a professional printing and promotional products provider based in Bakersfield, Calif., has been named by Inc. magazine as one of America’s fastest-growing private companies.

Vistaprint N.V., Venlo, Netherlands, announced on August 23, 2010, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued an opinion affirming the August 2009 decision of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas that dismissed the purported class action lawsuit against Vistaprint USA, Inc., Vistaprint Limited and two third party merchants.

Business Stationery LLC, Cleveland, a division of Identity Group Companies, announced the release of OrderCustom123, an online ordering solution designed for distributors to reach out to the millions of small businesses in the United States.