Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC), Charlotte, NC, announces the endowment of three full-tuition "Ron and Katherine Harper Scholarships" to be awarded in April 2005 to winners of the Phoenix Challenge Flexo Competition. Each year, the CPCC Harper Campus hosts the intense, two-day competition where high-school students from around the US and Canada compete on two Mark Andy and two Comco flexo presses, in addition to taking written and prepress tests. This year the Phoenix Challenge is scheduled for April 8–9, 2005.

Lincolnton, NC-based Water Ink Technologies, Inc., celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2005. Early in 1985, Water Ink Technologies began providing water-based inks and coatings to narrow-web flexographic printers. Originally located in a small plant in Iron Station, NC, Water Ink quickly expanded. Today, operations include a new headquarters and plant in Lincolnton, and nine branch locations throughout the US and Canada. Water Ink also has distributors in Mexico, and Central and South America.