Companies & suppliers

Digital finishes first in the race for run-lengths: Drupa post-press preview
The job of the finishing manufacturer is generally a reactive one: whatever the press manufacturers, both digital and litho, have planned for the future, the finishing manufacturers must be able to...

Shere Print buys UK's first Indigo WS6600 digital press
Newly formed packaging company Shere Print is to install the UK's first HP Indigo WS6600 digital press for the production of digital, narrow web packaging solutions.
Bordeaux to unveil new ink formulations at Drupa
Bordeaux Digital Printink has said it will show new ink formulations and technologies, including a "super flexible UV LED ink with extreme elongation properties", at Drupa next week.

Drupa preview: post-press stand-by-stand
FeragHall 15, Stand D25At Drupa 2012, Ferag will introduce TapeFix, a system to secure insert collections. TapeFix takes the place of a wrapper to ensure that collections stay together. TapeFix is...

World Book Night to mark second annual books giveaway
World Book Night will be celebrated tonight with 480,000 books set to be distributed at events across the country by some 20,000 volunteers.

Adobe offers pay-as-you-go CS6 with Creative Cloud launch
Adobe will officially launch Creative Cloud, a subscription-based online hub through which members will be able to access its full range of creative tools and services, next month.

FFEI to launch cloud-based profiling tool at Drupa
FFEI will launch a cloud-based colour management tool, RealPro Colour Cloud, at Drupa next month (Hall 05, C18).

Vulcan 714 sales pioneer Bob Curtis passes away
Robert "Bob" Curtis, a driving force behind establishing the revolutionary Vulcan 714 printing blanket in the UK, has died aged 73.

Johnston Press to relaunch range of newspapers
Newspaper publisher Johnston Press is to relaunch its entire range of titles in order to introduce 'platform neutral' publishing.

Fujifilm to launch new inkjet web press at Drupa
Fujifilm has announced the surprise launch of an inkjet web press, which it will show as a technology demo at next month's Drupa 2012 exhibition (Hall 08b, A25).