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Canadian Printing Awards 2012 Detailing more than 75 awards presented to printers and technology suppliers from across Canada, including PrintAction’s three Leaders of the Year and the production challenges faced by Gold Award winners in this year’s Quality Printing categories

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NEWS Richard Kouwenhoven becomes President of Hemlock Printers, Eastman Kodak establishes an $830-million funding plan, and remembering craftsman Clar Wejnert

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CALENDAR February 2013 TAGA kicks off its 65th conference in Portland, Graphics of the Americas lands in Florida, and HP users share ideas at dscoop 8 in Nashville

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AWARDS Celebrating Canadian Print A pictorial account of the 7th annual Canadian Printing Awards gala featuring host Dianne Buckner and more than 270 leaders from across North America

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MARTIN HABEKOST Test Methods for Recyclability From traditional offset production to inkjet ink and liquid toners, an in-depth look at the printing industry’s past decade of environmental progress with its key consumable

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VICTORIA GAITSKELL Inside University In-plants Managers of three in-plant operations at Canadian post-secondary schools share what it takes to provide print for thousands of timesensitive students and staff

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January 1998 The Unabomber receives a life sentence, Bill Clinton denies having a sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky, and PLM expands into the United States

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A Year in Print News affecting Canadian printing in 2012 January: Eastman Kodak files for Chapter 11; Random House buys McClelland & Stewart; xpedx shuts down Canadian operations (blaming the country’s economy); PaperlinX Canada starts operating as Spicers Canada; Webcom installs second HP Inkjet Web Press; Heidelberg announces another 2,000 job cuts; and L. Possehl & Co. establishes manroland web systems GmbH. February: Langley Holdings establishes manroland sheetfed GmbH; Isabelle Marcoux becomes Chair of Transcontinental; Digital Edge Print promotes itself as Canada’s first Fujifilm J Press 720 site; and Jeff Jacobson is tasked to lead Xerox Global Graphic Communications.

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July: Gerold Linzbach is named as new Heidelberg CEO; Marc Fortier becomes President of RP Graphics; Kaz Yamamura becomes CEO of Fujifilm North America; Marquis Book Printing buys two Transcontinental plants; Spicers Canada to distribute Presstek products; and PaperlinX Ltd. sells its U.S. and Italian operations.

August: Presstek is sold to MAI Holdings; Central Reproductions enters receivership; Printology Inc. files for bankruptcy; Fujifilm acquires Salmat for $387 million; and Ricoh invests in PTI Marketing.

September: Canadian Printing Industries Scholarship Trust Fund provides $75,000 to 57 students; Catalyst Paper successfully completes restructuring; and KBR Graphics is named a Ryobi distributor.

March: Transcontinental buys Quad/Graphics Canada Inc.; Encyclopedia Britannica announces the end of print editions; HP unveils its 29-inch Indigo line; and Unisource Canada rebrands its Mondrian-Hall division as Unisource Wide Format.

October: Toronto Star, National Post and The Globe and Mail newspapers introduce pay-walls for online content; Newsweek announces plan to shut down print edition; and Random House and Penguin publishing houses plan merger.

April: Danaher, which controls Esko, moves to acquire X-Rite; Michael Mugavero is named CEO of manroland North America; Martin Brodigan becomes CEO of Ricoh Americas; Lowe-Martin acquires Dollco; 4over opens 4over Canada plant; and Norm Beange is inducted into the BIA Hall of Fame.

November: Richard Kouwenhoven is named President of Hemlock Printers; Peter Nitchos becomes President of Mi5; Ryerson opens the Esko Premedia Wing; CPIA and CPSIC announce plans to form a new association, PIC; and more than 75 awards are presented at the 7th annual Canadian Printing Awards.

May: Westkey Graphics buys Menzies Graphics Group; Mark Norlock joins KBA Canada; Warren Buffett buys 63 community newspapers (dubbed as “oddest investment ever” by Forbes); drupa reports numbers are down 20 percent; Benny Landa introduces Nanography presses; HP plans to cut 27,000 jobs by the end of 2014; and Hans Gronhi buys Shinohara.

June: Toronto bans the plastic bag; Richard Nichols becomes CEO of Goss; Auto Trader ends print edition; Eastend Bindery shuts down; Mitchell Press buys assets of Teldon Print Media; Green Dot Litho merges with RP Graphics; Sun Chemical opens Laval ink plant; and DeJong Printing is renamed nexGen Grafix Inc.

December: Eastman Kodak receives conditional loan of $830 million to help it exit from bankruptcy protection (planned for 2013); EFI acquires Technique after buying Online Print Solutions in October and Cretaprint in January; North Plains acquires VYRE after buying Xinet in January; and HP opens a new 11,000-square-metre toner plant.

We also remember the contributions of key industry members who have left us in 2012: Derrick Warren; Lyman Henderson; Marvin Foy of MFM Design & Print; Léo Thibault, Founder of Unigraph; Paul Prince of Aulward Graphics; Douglas Holmes, founder of Holmes: The Finishing House; David Thorn, former President of The Arthur Press; craftsmen Clar Wejnert of Howard Graphic Equipment; and technology pioneer John Crosfield.

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PRINT NEWS time, a joint bid by Apple and Google for the patents reportedly met the requisite $500 million offer. The Apple/Google bid comes a few days after a consortium of bidders reportedly offered the same value. The 1,100 patents were valued by Kodak itself at between $2.2 billion and $2.6 billion, but failed to gain any traction during an auction in September.

RICHARD KOUWENHOVEN becomes President and General Manager of Hemlock Printers of Burnaby, British Columbia, among the largest commercial printing facilities in the Pacific Northwest. Dick Kouwenhoven, Richard’s father, led Hemlock for 44 years and positioned the company as one of the most-respected printing operations in North America.

He now becomes Chairman and CEO of Hemlock in a supportive role. Richard Kouwenhoven, who has had a lifelong association with the family’s printing business, has served in various roles in the past 12 years at Hemlock, including Estimator, Production Coordinator and Digital Print Services Manager. He most recently served as Senior VP of Customer Service, while also leading Hemlock’s online development activities and worldleading initiatives with environmentally progressive printing.

ALON BAR-SHANY, VP and GM of HP’s Indigo Division, announced the opening of a new 11,000-square-metre (118,000square-foot) plant in Kiryat Gat, Israel, to manufacture toner for the company’s new generation of HP Indigo presses (10000 series) introduced in May 2012.

The new HP Indigo plant is the first industrial building in Israel – and first HP manufacturing facility worldwide – built to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards. HP Indigo’s Kiryat Gat campus now includes 56,000 square metres (603,000 square feet) of building space. HP Indigo also manufactures its toner, commonly referred to by the company as liquid ink, at a facility in Singapore.

EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY accepted a new financing offer from a steering committee – comprised of 10 institutional investors holding senior secured notes – for interim and exit financing totaling $830 million in loans. The financing is predicated on certain conditions, including the successful completion of the sale of Kodak’s digital imaging patent portfolio for no less than $500 million. At press 6 • PRINTACTION • JANUARY 2013

KT WEB PRINTING of Toronto upgraded its newspaper production with the addition of four Goss Community colour tower units, two line folders and several page slicers. KT Web has been providing web printing to Toronto-area newspapers and magazines since being founded in 1983. The company started with a single colour printing press and has since grown to include, in addition to its coldset web, a 40-inch press with perfector, as well as a full in-house bindery. According to Thomas Kim, President of KT Web, the decision to add the new Goss Community coldset units was to be able to offer more colour pages for its clientele.

The press is designed to print on newsprint and specialty uncoated stocks.

KOENIG & BAUER AG announced plans to close its Trennfeld, Germany, plant by the Autumn of 2013. Its production capabilities will be rolled into its main plant in Würzburg, just 25 kilometres away. The Trennfeld plant, opened in 1964, currently employs 220 staff to assemble printing units and superstructures for commercial and newspaper presses.

Trennfeld’s assembly staff have been offered new positions in Würzburg. The realignment of KBA’s plants started three years ago, which, according to the company, plays a major role in its claim to be the only major press manufacturer to remain in the black since 2009.

CLAR WEJNERT, a long-standing member of the Canadian printing industry, who was a talented craftsman and carpenter, passed away in early December. Wejnert joined Garden City Printing in downtown Toronto shortly after finishing school and later worked for Davis-Cooke Printing, which produced stationery and all of the tickets for the Maple Leaf Gardens.

As his career progressed, Wejnert became well known in Toronto’s printing community as a masterful craftsman, working on nearly every type of letterpress cylinder and also repairing them. He retired from Howard Graphic Equipment in 1994, but, with his unique skill set and knowledge, continued to work with the company until this year.

RP GRAPHICS GROUP acquired all outstanding shares of Data in Motion Marketing, a variable data imaging and specialty finishing company. Now integrated into RP Graphics’ Mississauga plant, Data in Motion Marketing, which is to remain as an independent brand, specializes in applications requiring intelligent inserting, camera matching and read-and-write capabilities. RP Graphics Group provides a range of commercial printing services like tradiMARC OLIN, General Manager of EFI’s tional lithography, toner, and largeProductivity Software business unit, an- format production, as well as bindery nounced the company’s acquisition of and mailing services.

Technique, which develops management information systems (MIS) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for the printing and packaging industries. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Technique consists of privately held Technique Business Systems Limited located in Leeds, United Kingdom, and Technique Inc. based in the state of Delaware. Techique’s technology joins an extensive set of MIS/ERP software owned by EFI, including Monarch, Pace and Radius solutions.

JOSEPH VARONE, VP of Sales for GMG JULIE THOMPSON becomes a Sales Repre- Americas, announced a new agreement sentative for Unisource Canada’s Printing for Access Imaging to become a dealer of Papers Division, reporting to the com- GMG products throughout Canada. Fopany’s Regional Sales Director, Dave Jack- cusing on the large-format space since son. Thompson brings over 20 years of 1993, Access Imaging’s new distribution industry experience to Unisource, includ- agreement is centred on ProductionSuite ing an extensive background in specifica- software, which GMG describes as a comtion and business development. Prior to plete production solution for wide-format joining Unisource, Thompson was at JTI printing. Headquartered in Toronto, AcCanada where she held a position as cess Imaging also has representatives in Trade Marketing Representative. She has Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver. also held positions with Cascades, Ariva and Coast Paper.

MARC LAUTENBACH, a 27-year veteran of IBM’s technology and business services PP PRINT & DIGITAL SERVICES added a industry, becomes President and Chief Presstek 34DI press to its production Executive Officer of Pitney Bowes. He floor in Port Perry, Ontario. The com- succeeds Murray Martin, who is retiring pany was founded 38 years ago by Henry as the company’s Chairman, President Janssen and today is owned by his son, and CEO. At different stages of his career Tony Janssen. The certified, pre-owned at IBM, Lautenbach served as Managing Presstek machine replaces an older Hei- Partner of IBM North America Global delberg 19x25 four-colour press and will Business Services; General Manager of operate alongside two 11x17 2-colour IBM North America; General Manager, presses, a Xerox and two Konica toner- IBM Global Small and Medium Business; based printers, and a Roland 540B 4- and Vice President, IBM Asia-Pacific colour conventional offset press. The Small and Medium Business. The Pitney 34DI press supports FM screening and Bowes board also announced that 300-lpi printing and runs up to 7,000 Michael Roth, currently Lead Independent Director, has been appointed Nonsheets per hour.

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BOOKNET CANADA, a non-profit organization that develops technology, stan- SAM HIRJI of Samco Printers in Vancoudards and education, reports that sales of ver received the Queen's Diamond Juprinted books in Canada slipped nearly bilee Medal, which recognizes recipients 10 percent in the third quarter of 2012 for outstanding contributions to their compared to a year ago. Unit sales slipped communities. In a story by The Province 9.5 percent while dollar value fell 6.4 per- newspaper, Hirji said, “This is a great hocent. The numbers are based on the nour for me and my community. Printtracking of 665 retail locations across the ing has always been in my family, since country. According to Booknet’s research, the days of the British Raj in India.” Hirji the volume of fiction books declined 7.12 was born in Uganda to Indian parents. percent in the third quarter (-0.31 per- He started Samco Printers with a $5,000 cent in dollar value), while non-fiction loan as a 500-square-foot, one-man opvolume decreased by 12.36 percent eration in 1976. The Diamond Jubilee (-13.06 percent value), and juvenile book Medal program was created as part of volume fell by 10.13 percent (-6.03 per- this year’s celebration of Queen Elizabeth cent value).

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HAYSTACKS MEDIA PRODUCTION installed a MultiCam 3000 Series CNC Router into its Halifax facility. The 3000 system, which includes a spindle, dual knives and vision system, will be primarily be used for finishing large-format Point-of-purchase applications. Built around a steel frame and moving-gantry design, the 3000 Series CNC routers are driven by the MultiCam EZ Control suite, which includes Connection Manager, Job Name Server, Job Editor and Job Reporter. The MICHAEL RING, President of Xeikon system also features 3-axis motion conAmerica, signed a new distribution trol – along with 25-mm linear ball bearagreement with Canflexographics Ltd. of ing profile rails – and is rated for a Burlington, Ontario, for the Canadian maximum cutting speed of 1,400 ipm. market. Canflexographics is to distribute Xeikon’s web-fed label and document NORTH PLAINS, a digital-asset manageprinting presses, which utilize LED- ment provider based in Toronto, purarray-based dry toner electrophotogra- chased VYRE, a UK-based developer of resource management phy, open workflow software and marketing application-specific toners. Canflexo- (MRM) and brand asset management graphics is to also sell Xeikon’s line of (BAM) software. In May 2011, VYRE ThermoFlexX imagers for flexo and let- launched its On Brand technology as a terpress plates, as well as associated software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution to screening, colour management and provide management of brand guidelines, brand assets and creative workworkflow tools.

PIC FOR PRINTERS With the late-November unveiling of the proposed Printing Industries of Canada (PIC) association, PrintAction magazine invited its founding committee to write about their intentions. Tony Karg, Senior Director of Business Development & Marketing for Fujifilm Canada’s Graphic Systems division, who sits on the PIC committee, provided the following outline for the new association’s beginnings. he direction of the Printing Industries of Canada is to be formed from a single question, what’s in it for printers? From this seemingly simple question evolved four key pillars that Canada’s printers should expect a national association to stand on, including: Promotion, Advocacy, Collaboration and EduTony Karg cation.

We need a champion and a voice for our industry that acts nationally on our behalf, delivering value to our businesses and, when necessary, defending our industry’s value as a key part of today’s marketing communications mix.

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Promotion We love print. We devote hours of hard work to our businesses, because of it. We will scream out what works in print and why, inside of our industry and to those outsiders who do not understand or appreciate the full impact of this powerful medium. We will market ourselves through national campaigns and showcase world-leading innovation to the marketplace and to the future generations of business leaders. This in turn will help us to understand how to promote our own businesses.

Advocacy Next time an equipment vendor like Toshiba initiates a puzzling campaign to promote a No Print Day, we need a single Canadian voice to stand up

flows. VYRE also previously developed Unify, which is a Web-based marketing application platform. With offices in Canada, the United States and Europe, North Plains claims to provide its technologies to more than 1,400 clients and 1,000,000 users, worldwide.

proofing. “The addition of Fujifilm Javelin 8600S provided us with full platemaking automation to keep up with our large perfecting press, while the Fujifilm Javelin 8300E gave us flexibility for our smaller presses,” said Gortemaker

RICHARD GARNEAU, President and CEO of Resolute Forest Products, announced the indefinite idling a kraft mill at the company’s pulp and paper operation in Fort Frances, Ontario. Around 240 employees are to be impacted by the idling. This move includes the idling of paper machine number 5, which has an annual capacity of 105,000 metric tons of groundwood specialty printing paper.

The kraft mill itself has an annual production capacity of approximately 200,000 metric tonnes of market pulp.

TED GORTEMAKER, VP of Operations at Resolute produces a range of products Premier Printing in Winnipeg, and Gary like newsprint, commercial printing Thompson, Account Manager with Fuji- papers, market pulp and wood products. film Canada, oversaw the installation of The company owns or operates 22 pulp two new Fujifilm computer-to-plate and paper mills and 22 wood product devices and Fujifilm’s XMF workflow – facilities in the United States, Canada and with XMF Remote job submission and South Korea.

for why print is good, environmentally sound and a massive employer of a great many tax paying, newspaper reading, TV watching Canadians. We need a national government lobby to ensure our politicians also understand the collective power of the printing industry and as individual businesses employing voters in their ridings.

Collaboration Printers and their suppliers are a competitive lot and it is understandable why sharing ideas with a company down the street never goes over very well. However, connect us with a printer of comparable size or product mix in another part of the country and it is incredible how much progress can be made, how many problems can be solved and insight gained. The industry’s printers and suppliers, media, educators and event operators must organize to drive growth in shared best practices, whether through national conferences, trade shows or coordination with regional associations.

Education Technology does not drive our industry, people do.

Talented people leverage technology to enable great print. We must focus on national coordination with local educational institutions to train skilled employees and foster new talent, tomorrow’s innovators. There must be collaboration in the development of job descriptions and skill assessments for course curriculums to provide our people, new and experienced, with relevant expertise.

All of this has to be delivered at the lowest possible cost for the highest amount of value, which is why working nationally is the most practical way to collect, communicate, distribute – and eliminate duplication. Local associations, where they exist, should work collaboratively to customize, deliver and execute.

PIC is to follow three key principles: first, to respond only to the stated, pressing needs of the members across the country; second, to make a practical and measurable contribution to the health of our industry and its individual members; and third, to provide services not already nationally available through other organizations. To accomplish these principles, it is essential for PIC to be relevant, timely, and consistent.

We will be relevant by using our database to keep track of – and respond to – your needs. This requires many proactive one-on-one conversations to hear about your successes and concerns.

We will be timely by distributing information in the most suitable form, whether digital or print based. We feel digital tools like email and social media networks can very effectively support the value of print. This will help us engage with you directly. It will be just as important to communicate with you by leveraging our knowledge of print effectiveness, to build marketing kits and promotional tools we can touch and share through local associations or educational institutions.

The Printing Industries of Canada takes two national associations (CPIA and CPISC) and creates a single partnership. It slims down to an essential team to work one-on-one with printers, industry leaders, regional associations and educational institutions. We are asking for your support, engagement and buy-in. This is our national industry association. We need to support it.

Become one of PICs founding members and reap the rewards of a strong national voice for print in Canada.

For more information contact Sandy Stephens (416-285-1700 / sstephens@informco.com) or Jeff Ekstein (905-660-1515 / jeff@willowprint.com) or visit www.pic-ici.ca.

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The 65th Annual TAGA Technical Conference kicks off in Portland, Oregon, which will see the latest studies on print production be presented by the world’s top researchers. The program also contains a student portion, which will see print educational institute compete for the famed Helmut Kipphan Cup.

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HP users gather in Nashville to share ideas during dscoop 8, which will feature strategies for digital print production. The event, under the theme of Spark, features multiple streams from labels to grand-format production. $699*

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IDEAlliance presents its annual Print Media Executive Summit in Sarasota, Florida. Hailed as a think tank of business executives across the entire print media supply chain, the summit will investigate best practices and new business models. $1,550*

Graphics of the Americas 2013 kicks off at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. A combination of expo and conference, the show has education tracks ranging from prepress, printing, sales and design for imaging of all disciplines.

New Delhi is the capital of India and has a population of 17 million people. The foundation of the new city was laid in 1911 after the British moved the capital from Calcutta, believing it would be easier administer. As such, much of the city’s original architecture and layout was influenced by British sensbilities, with only minor contributions from Hindu, Buddhist and Muslim cultures. The city is home to booming industries such as information technology, telecommunications, banking and media.

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Colour experts can renew their certifications via a G7 online course starting today, presented by IDEAlliance.

G7 Experts are required to recertify every two years and pass the ensuing exam with a score of 90 percent or greater. $300*

The biannual Printpack India show kicks off in New Delhi to service the region’s rapidly rising demand for print, growing at an estimated 12.2 percent annually.

The show is expected to draw over 50,000 visitors from 16 countries in the region.

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The Canadian Marketing Association presents the 2013 Loyalty Conference in Toronto, which discusses emerging trends of integrating social media into brand loyalty programs and associated challenges.

Speakers representing Ford, Hudson’s Bay, and Universal Music will share their views. $495*

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Celebrating Canadian Print ore than 270 people from across North America, including representation from seven of Canada’s provinces, attended PrintAction magazine’s 7th annual Canadian Printing Awards at the Palais Royale on Toronto’s lakeshore. Host Dianne Buckner of the CBC led the celebration of a range of achievements within Canada’s printing industry over the past year.

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Tony Karg of Fujifilm Canada with Domenic Veroni of Kodak

Navik Mehta of Sun Chemical

Dylan Westgate and Michael Steele of Sydney Stone

Warren Werbitt of Pazazz Printing and Louise Kralka of PDI

Dick Kouwenhoven of Hemlock Printers, Todd Cober of Cober Evolving Solutions and Matthew Alexander of Colour Innovations

Michelle Laird Williams, Domenic Veroni and Mike Halliwell of Kodak

Nanette Malungkit of Unisource Canada

David Allan of Rhino Print Solutions

Leaders from Howard Graphic Equipment and K-North celebrate with Image Four and Simpson Screen Print & Lithography

Karl Belafi Jr. and Rob Baillie of KBR Graphics

Dave Jackson of Unisource, platinum sponsor

Jeff Golfman of Prairie Pulp + Paper, A.J. Goldberg of Goldrich Printpak, and Mark Wilson of Hostmann-Steinberg

Cynthia Tremblay, Brent Anderson and Brittany Giles from TPH with Mike Meshkati of Sina Printing and John Plonka of Colour Time Printing

Lou Bekyarovich, Dave Jackson, Brad Noel, Natalie Bandiera and Mike Andonovski of Unisource

Mark Thomas and Mike Thibault of Unigraph look over some print

Jamie Barbieri of PDI with manroland’s Michael Mugavero and Gina Gigliozzi

Jeff Ekstein of Willow Printing with Esko’s Marc Raad

Norm Beange of Anstey Book Binding, Dick Kouwenhoven of Hemlock Printers, and Ed Rooney of Lowe-Martin

Patrick Coyne of The Lowe-Martin Group

April San Juan of Colour Time Printing

A.J. Goldberg and Larry Kirsh from Goldrich Printpak

Brad MacDonald of Presstek

Scott Tait with Geoff Christensen of Spicers Canada

Jesse Colborn, Ray Fagan of Heidelberg Canada, Sara Young and Chiara Young

James Burghgraef of Agfa Canada

The Lowe-Martin team

Mike Meshkati of Sina Printing

Canadian Printing Awards host Dianne Buckner with George Kallas of MET Printers

Sheryl Sauder of Mi5, Pat Stoqua of Lowe-Martin and Steve Ostiguy of St Joseph’s Communications

Martin Johanns of Simpson Screen Print & Lithography

Jeff Ekstein of Willow Printing, Sandy Stephens of Informco, Louise Kralka of PDI, and Dean McElhinney of Unicom Graphics

Brent Anderson, Marc Peters, Harith Al-Shakarchi and Oleg Rybin of The Printing House

Rich Pauptit of Flash Reproductions, Sara Young of PrintAction, Alf Iannarelli, and Bernard Hellen of Cascades

Rachel Carriere of The Lowe-Martin Group wins a door prize

Dick Kouwenhoven of Hemlock Printers

Terry and Deanna Sinclair from Cambridge Labels

Matthew Alexander of Colour Innovations

Shawn Desmarchais from Produlith

John Campbell of Andrew’s Direct Marketing and Randy Ruiters of The Lowe-Martin Group

Michael Renaud of The Lowe-Martin Group

Marc Petitpas of The Printing House and Chris Peacock of Kempenfelt Group

Jay Mandarino of C.J. Graphics

Matthew Alexander of Colour Innovations, George Kallas of MET Printers, Jeff Ekstein of Willow Printing and David Allan of Rhino Print

Todd Karges and Cynthia Tremblay of The Printing House

Chris Peacock of Kempenfelt Group

Randy Pope of the Kempenfelt Group

William Timpano of Rainforest Alliance

Sarah O’Born of TPH, Michael Corbett of Symcor ISS and Lynda Mullen of C.J. Graphics

Lloyd Byrant and Frances Edmonds of HP Canada

Rich Pauptit of Flash Reproductions

Rachel Dierolf of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative

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