In Brief

ArcWest Architects named Rick Ruffino a partner. Prior to joining ArcWest, Ruffino served as director of manufacturing for the U.S. outsourcing group at Transcontinental Inc. and continues to serve as a consultant at the printer’s newly opened Fremont, Calif., production facility.

The Los Angeles Times Media Group named Bill Nagel executive vice president of business services, a newly created position.

Catherine J. Mathis, who has served as chief of communications for The New York Times Co. for 12 years, is leaving the company at the end of the month to take a similar position with Standard & Poor’s.
Ethan Riegelhaupt, vice president for speechwriting and internal communications, will take Mathis’ place on an interim basis.

Amerikal Products Corp. promoted Nick Buettner senior technician.

Local.com Corp. named Michael Plonski chief technology officer.

Advanced Vision Technology named Juan Da Silva sales director for Latin and South America.

Verve Wireless named Bill Ganon chief revenue officer.

(New York) Daily News publisher Mort Zuckerman will use money raised from stock sales to pay for the new Koenig & Bauer presses that will be used to print the paper. Bloomberg said Zuckerman has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to sell 1 million shares of stock, worth some $51 million, to finance the purchase of the machines.

Hearst Newspapers said it will deploy Flyerboard ad software from PaperG across 15 newspaper Web sites.
www.paperg.com

Lancaster (Pa.) Newspapers said it will use software from CommunitySportsDesk for local sports coverage.
www.communitysportsdesk.com

Kodak said the JDF Interoperability Matrix identified Creo Color Servers as having the greatest number of connections to third-party workflow apps. The Matrix is produced by CIP4, the International Cooperation for the Integration of the Processes in Prepress, Press and Postpress.
http://www.cip4.org/matrix/

WoodWing Software rolled out Brand Station, its Web-to-print app, designed to help ensure brand consistency. Brand Station integrates with WoodWing’s Enterprise content publishing platform. The vendor also announced the availability of its Adobe CS4-compatible SmartLayout plug-in.
www.woodwing.com

Baldwin Technology Co. Inc. said Gulf Printing and Publishing Co. purchased blanket washers for its manroland Cromoman semi-commercial presses in an order valued at approximately $1.3 million.
www.baldwintech.com

UV vendor GEW unveiled C3, a new reflector design for its range of UV curing systems. Based on the vendor’s retractable cassette system, this third-generation reflector cartridge was developed as a replacement to the existing XC (extreme cure) reflector system used on its VCP and eCP product platforms, GEW said.
www.gewuv.com

Printing Press Services International is supplying a two-tower shaftless press extension and controls system upgrade at Trinity Mirror’s Newcastle plant in the United Kingdom. It also just completed a web-width reduction project at Newsquest’s U.K. facilities.
www.printing-press-services.co.uk

Hearst Corp. leased the printing facility formerly used to produce the San Francisco Chronicle to a construction company that’s building the nearby San Francisco General Hospital. The lease for the 7.9-acre property on Cesar Chaves Street is for five years.