Pre-media

North Plains has acquired rival digital asset management (DAM) vendor Xinet for an undisclosed amount to form "the largest pure-play DAM vendor" in the print industry.

A host of UK manufacturers will be joining forces at Drupa, under the Picon banner, with the goal of highlighting the best of British print equipment.

EFI will unveil a new digital press that it believes can replace wide-format screen printing at Drupa (Hall 05, stand C01).

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Fujifilm will unveil a cloud-based colour management system, XMF ColorPath, as one of the major new features in the latest version of its XMF workflow at Drupa next month.

Tower Printing has become the first UK customer to invest in GMG's ProductionSuite software for high-volume wide-format users.

Luscher will use Drupa to launch its new 8-page UV CtP system, the XDrum! that has been designed for commercial print and packaging providers.

Techkon is to launch an updated model of its handheld spectro densitometer SpectroDens at Drupa 2012 (Hall9, Stand D62).

John Crosfield, founder of Crosfield Electronics and pioneer of automatic register control and colour scanning technologies for the print industry, has passed away aged 96.