+ In Italy one day on Color Proofing.
Organized by the technical association for graphic arts TAGA Italia together with the magazine Il Poligrafico, last April 20th took place the 3rd Proofing Day. (...)

(Il Poligrafico - May 2006)

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+ Sogapal expands with sixth KBA Compacta.
Sociedade Grafica da Paia (Sogapal) is expanding further at its site in Barcarena, a suburb of Lisbon. (...)

(Do Papel - May 2006)

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+ Portuguese government approves Portucel’s new PM.
The Portuguese government has approved Portucel Soporcel's plans to build a new 500,000 tonne/yr uncoated woodfree paper machine in Setúbal, Portugal. (...)

(Do Papel - May 2006)

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+ Entries open for the European Publication Gravure Award.
The Eurographic Press is co-sponsor with the European Rotogravure Association (ERA) of the European Publication Gravure Award, which takes place in every even-numbered year. (...)

(Graficus - May 2006)

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+ Dutch RSDB ends talks to ‘foreign party’.
RSDB, the biggest Dutch printinghouse, announces that it terminated discussions with a foreign industrial party, held during the last ten months. The talks were to result in a delisting of the shares of RSDB. (...)

(Graficus - May 2006)

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+ Publishers picking up on POD.
At a seminar on ‘Publishers and POD’, last month in Bussum (The Netherlands), speakers followed up on a 2005 KPMG-report, claiming that 63 percent of Dutch publishers intends to be involved in the Publishing and/or Printing On Demand-business by 2007. At the same time, only 23 percent of them already were. (...)

(Graficus - May 2006)

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+ Dutch printers need to prepare succession.
The Royal Dutch Graphic Arts Employers Federation (KVGO) presented its Annual Report last month, themed ‘Changing Guards’. (...)

(Graficus - May 2006)