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- ↑ Form 20-F (Annual Report to Securities & Exchange Commission) of Scitex Corporation Ltd. for 2001 filed on 28 June 2002
- ↑ "Aprion Digital, Ltd.: Private Company Information -", BusinessWeek, retrieved 2010-05-01
- ↑ Hewlett Packard to buy NUR Macroprinters for $117.5 million, Forbes, 12.10.2007
- ↑ Scitex renamed Scailex Globes, 1 January 2006
- ↑ HP Scitex Industrial Portfolio, on HP's website