Pre-media

A new app aims to give printers the tools to 'print with intelligence' through its ability to make any printed material - whether old or new - interactive with a few simple steps.

Anton Group has become the first company in Europe to install two Agfa Avalon N8-80 platesetters following a major pre-press upgrade to accompany its 17m (14m) Heidelberg spend.

EFI has announced that maintenance contract customers using its Prinance and Printy MIS systems can switch to EFI PrintSmith for free.

FFEI (Hall 5, stand C18) has appointed Color Confidence as the first pan-European distributor for its 3D packaging visualisation tool, RealVue 3D Packager.

Luscher has teamed with Heidelberg to launch a new UV platesetter that uses elements of both manufacturers' CTP technologies.

Communisis has announced the 1.1m acquisition of two businesses, Kieon and Yomego, designed to further boost the non-print services offered by its Intelligence Driven Communications division.

Ilford, the recyclable wide-format substrate specialist, has expanded into laminates and screen printing with the launch of two new products at Drupa (Hall 7, E15).

The latest generation of Agfa Graphics' prepress workflow includes a cloud-based web-to-print solution powered by Chili Publish's eponymous online document editor.

LithoTechnics, developer of the Metrix intelligent job ganging tool, has renamed itself Metrix Software and relaunched its website ahead of this week's Drupa.