In brief: July 6, 2009

Kirk MacDonald, former CEO of the Denver Newspaper Agency, returned to The Denver Post as executive vice president of sales, marketing and digital sales. He will report to Gerald Grilly, the DNA's president and CEO.

PAGE Cooperative named General Manager John Snyder as its CEO, effective July 1. Former CEO Chuck Berky remains in an advisory capacity as Founder, CEO Emeritus for the next 12 months, PAGE said. Meantime, Steve Schroeder, assistant general manager and director of technical services. was named general manager. Schroeder retains his duties as director of technical services.

KBA North America announced that Ulrich Wicke, former web offset sales manager for the Spanish and South American markets, will take over as vice president of sales and service for the web offset division in North America. Heinz Schmid, vice president of web offset sales for KBA’s newspaper and commercial web market, will remain with KBA in an advisory capacity.

Hewlett-Packard said Vyomesh Joshi, executive president of its imaging and printing group, was presented with the 2009 Prism Award. Presented annually by New York University, the Prism Award recognizes leadership in graphic arts and communications.

Technotrans launched a new regional headquarters in Hong Kong to consolidate the Asia Pacific business activities of its parent company technotrans AG and appointed Ralph Pernizsak regional managing director.

WoodWing Software released enhanced versions of its Smart Speller and Smart Hyphen plug-ins, offering additional languages, more features and full support for Adobe CS4, the vendor said.

The Central Penn Business Journal won the gold award in the Best Newspapers Small Market category at The Alliance of Area Business Publications’ annual awards banquet in June.

Tolerans introduced the Speedliner S60 compact ribbon stitcher. The machine is half the size of a traditional stitcher, Tolerans said, and can stitch sections at full production speed.

Printing Industries of America and manroland extended their partnership to include collaborative research and training activities. Printing Industries' ability to successfully use a manroland rotoman web press for the benefit of printers, students and visitors laid the groundwork for the next phase in the organizations' relationship, PIA said.

Seven Midwest press associations are collaborating to conduct the 2009 Midwest Newspaper Summit, titled “Newspaper Evolution: Survival of the Fittest in the Digital Age,” Thursday, Sept. 17 at the Grand River Center in Dubuque, Iowa.
Registration and accommodation information is available at www.newspaperevolution.com.

AdSend, a division of Vio Worldwide, announced that the browser-based ad sending and receiving service now offers integrated preflighting utilizing Dalim Twist.