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AbitibiBowater has been taking action to help combat climate change for several years. Since 2000, the company has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 32 percent per ton. The progress to date can be attributed to a company-wide focus on improved efficiency and to switching from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. In 2008, AbitibiBowater was 46 percent self-sufficient from renewable sources for its total energy needs. A new biomass boiler at the Fort Frances, Ontario, mill produces 46 MW of “green” electricity. In fact, 66 percent of the fuel used in the company’s boilers is supplied by carbon-neutral biomass such as sawdust and wood residues.

THE ECONOMY may be bad, but that doesn’t mean the quality of your printed materials has to be. Instead of switching to cheaper paper, this is the time to give your publications more impact by using premium papers. “They help you set your printed communications apart,” notes Laura Shore, of Mohawk Fine Papers.

The On Demand Exposition & Conference partnered with InfoTrends, a market research and consulting firm, to present the Best of Show Awards at On Demand last month in Boston. IPG congratulates the nine top award winners: • Monochrome Digital Printing: Océ Vario­Stream 8000 • Process Color Digital Printing: Canon U.S.A. imagePRESS C6000 • Wide-format Printing: Xerox 8265 Color Wide Format Printer • Bindery, Finishing and Mailing: Ricoh Ring Binder RB5000 • Innovations in Paper Usage/Substrates: Mohawk Fine Papers Beckett Cambric • Document Creation Software: XMPie Personal­Effect • Web To Print Solutions: Rochester Software Associates WebCRD Enterprise System 7.0 • Workflow Solutions: Ultimate Technographics Impostrip

BOSTON—March 4, 2008—At an awards ceremony this afternoon, the On Demand Exposition & Conference announced the winners of the third annual ON DEMAND Best of Show Awards program. InfoTrends, a leading market research and consulting firm in the digital imaging and document solutions industry, partnered with the On Demand Conference & Exposition to produce the awards program. The On Demand Conference & Exposition is taking place this week at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center. The On Demand Best of Show Awards were judged in nine categories. One “Best of Show” award was presented in each of the following categories: • Bindery, Finishing and

NEW YORK CITY—March 2, 2007—The Black Book, the premiere resource in commercial photography for over 70,000 global Art Directors, Designers, Creative Directors, Editors and Publishers, is proud to announce its collaboration with founding partners Pictorial Offset Corporation, and Neenah Paper, to launch the “CSR Guide” in its 2007 AR100 Award Show book. As an addition to the already popular AR100 Award Show book, the CSR Guide will be added to the existing printed publication, which celebrates the overall design in Annual Reports. The CSR Guide will premiere as a competition of the design and content matter of Corporate Sustainability Reports, where corporations, designers,

Are you getting the most out of your digital paper? Find out from the experts. By Kristen E. Monte DIGITAL PRINTING delivers a leap in technology—but make sure you don't stumble when it comes to the digital paper you use. In-Plant Graphics spoke with industry suppliers of digital paper to get some important runnability tips. Read on and take note. Identifying Quality Paper: • Quality paper should arrive well packaged and protected, be clean and not dusty when inspected, and feed evenly without major efforts. The paper weight is important because there are usually complex paths in digital presses, and there are

When used properly, multiple-use papers can be an asset to any in-plant. Find out how they can benefit yours. IT SOUNDS like a printer's dream come true—one paper that can be used for offset, ink-jet and digital applications. This paper can do it all. Well, sort of. While it is true that the market for multiple-use papers is growing, there is a definite trade-off for the versatility these products offer. Certainly multiple-use papers can run on different types of print processes, but their quality isn't quite that of job-specific papers. The key is knowing when multiple-use papers can be most effective in cost