Consumables

Agfa confirms plate price rise

Agfa has announced immediate plate price rises of up to 10% due to rocketing aluminium costs.

Four new substrates from PrintPlus Fabrics

PrintPlus Fabrics has debuted four new textile substrates for digital printing applications at Fespa.

Serge Ferrari debuts signage substrate at Fespa

Serge Ferrari has released a grey-backed variant of its Decolit creative interiors fabric.

MagnaColours shows latest inks

Inks supplier MagnaColours is taking part in the Print Make Wear fashion textile feature, with live screen printing demonstrations using its water-based inks.

Sonora sales jump in Kodak Q1 results

Kodak achieved double-digit growth in volumes for its Sonora process-free and Flexcel flexo plates in Q1, but posted a loss for the quarter amid moves that could lead to more M&A activity at the...

Northern Flags runs up the colours for naval gazers

Northern Flags has helped naval supply store Mainbrace Marine provide the Royal Navy’s flags on a number of occasions. This time, however, the recurring client tested just how tight a ship the...

Fujifilm offers printers a step to processless with new low-chem plate

Fujifilm has launched a new low-chemistry plate that only requires a one-stage gum clean out, rather than traditional processing chemistry.

Overmatter: Ossas?

It’s not every day that a typo will end up getting nearly 50,000 ‘likes’ on Twitter, but that’s exactly what happened when online fashion behemoth ASOS fessed up to a blooper on a batch of its bags,...

Three new Sun Chemical inks to make Fespa debuts

Sun Chemical will debut new products in its graphics, industrial and digital textiles portfolios when it returns to Fespa next month.

Executive changes at Kodak

Kodak’s Brad Kruchten is to retire later this month after 36 years at the company, and will be replaced at the helm of its worldwide printing business with another long-serving executive.