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Title: Report: Xerox Seeks to Acquire RR Donnelley
Post by: Joe on July 12, 2016, 02:42:09 PM
Report: Xerox Seeks to Acquire RR Donnelley; What It May Mean for the Printing Industry (http://www.piworld.com/article/report-xerox-seeks-acquire-rr-donnelley-mean/#utm_source=today-on-piworld&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=2016-07-12&utm_content=report%3A+xerox+seeks+to+acquire+rr+donnelley%3B+what+it+may+mean+for+the+printing+industry-5)
Title: Re: Report: Xerox Seeks to Acquire RR Donnelley
Post by: Slappy on July 12, 2016, 03:38:05 PM
Oh rly?  :popcorn:
Title: Re: Report: Xerox Seeks to Acquire RR Donnelley
Post by: Farabomb on July 13, 2016, 06:09:12 AM
Indeed.  :popcorn: 
Title: Re: Report: Xerox Seeks to Acquire RR Donnelley
Post by: David on July 13, 2016, 08:30:40 AM
I'll believe it when I see it...    :popcorn:
Title: Re: Report: Xerox Seeks to Acquire RR Donnelley
Post by: Joe on July 13, 2016, 08:41:18 AM
Quote from: david on July 13, 2016, 08:30:40 AMI'll believe it when I see it...    :popcorn:

That is what I said when it was rumored that Quebecor was going to buy World Color...and that Quad was going to buy Quebecor, etc.... :sad:
Title: Re: Report: Xerox Seeks to Acquire RR Donnelley
Post by: David on July 13, 2016, 09:41:34 AM
I saw the blurb about Xerox and was wondering why RRD would let them buy, are they hurting for money?
Title: Re: Report: Xerox Seeks to Acquire RR Donnelley
Post by: Ear on July 13, 2016, 10:17:17 AM
RRD recently bought our local CDS printer. CDS had a bunch of webs and a whole building full of Indigo presses, which ran Apple packaging and documentation, exclusively. It is quite an operation. Now run by RRD.
Title: Re: Report: Xerox Seeks to Acquire RR Donnelley
Post by: Joe on July 13, 2016, 10:28:38 AM
Quote from: david on July 13, 2016, 09:41:34 AMI saw the blurb about Xerox and was wondering why RRD would let them buy, are they hurting for money?

Big profit for stock holders is my guess.
Title: Re: Report: Xerox Seeks to Acquire RR Donnelley
Post by: Joe on July 13, 2016, 10:29:21 AM
Quote from: Ear on July 13, 2016, 10:17:17 AMRRD recently bought our local CDS printer. CDS had a bunch of webs and a whole building full of Indigo presses, which ran Apple packaging and documentation, exclusively. It is quite an operation. Now run by RRD.

There isn't much left in the way of printers that don't fall under either the Quad or RRD umbrella.
Title: Re: Report: Xerox Seeks to Acquire RR Donnelley
Post by: David on July 13, 2016, 11:53:43 AM
yepper, if it ain't Quad it's RRD... or the little mom and pops
Title: Re: Report: Xerox Seeks to Acquire RR Donnelley
Post by: Joe on July 19, 2016, 02:50:56 PM
Xerox Rebuffs RR Donnelley Merger Proposal (http://www.goprintandpromo.com/article/xerox-rebuffs-rr-donnelley-merger-proposal/#utm_source=print%2Bpromo-the-press&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=2016-07-19&utm_content=xerox+rebuffs+rr+donnelley+merger+proposal-1)
Title: Re: Report: Xerox Seeks to Acquire RR Donnelley
Post by: born2print on July 19, 2016, 02:57:09 PM
Had a dude ask me about this the other day... he was saying "is Xerox that big of a company?"
I had to ask him: picture every building in the world, now how many do NOT have a Xerox device in them?
:ohno:
Title: Re: Report: Xerox Seeks to Acquire RR Donnelley
Post by: DigitalCrapShoveler on July 19, 2016, 03:07:19 PM
Quote from: born2print on July 19, 2016, 02:57:09 PMHad a dude ask me about this the other day... he was saying "is Xerox that big of a company?"
I had to ask him: picture every building in the world, now how many do NOT have a Xerox device in them?
:ohno:

Exactly.

They also developed the first visual interface with a mouse, that eventually became the Macintosh. Practically gave it to Steve Jobs.
Title: Re: Report: Xerox Seeks to Acquire RR Donnelley
Post by: Farabomb on July 20, 2016, 06:22:54 AM
So, they created the demon that is now the internet?

I liked it better when you had to work at banging out command line in order to get on the net.  :git off mah lawn:
Title: Re: Report: Xerox Seeks to Acquire RR Donnelley
Post by: born2print on July 20, 2016, 10:42:08 AM
Quote from: Farabomb on July 20, 2016, 06:22:54 AMSo, they created the demon that is now the internet?

I liked it better when you had to work at banging out command line in order to get on the net.  :git off mah lawn:
It kept the riff-raff away :thumbsup: