Pre-media

Star Product: Screen PlateRite HD 8900

If you're looking to replace a platesetter, this may be just the thing

Pentaforce crosses 250 installs of PrintFastQ

Pentaforce Software Solutions (PSS), the Mumbai-based software developing company announced that it has installed more than 250 PrintFastQ softwares in the domestic and international market.

Former Vio chief Friend poached to head up LGS and TPI

Former Vio managing director Chris Friend has been poached to head up the recently-combined London Graphic Systems (LGS) and Turning Point Integration (TPI).

Portobello selects Kodak for software and prepress services

London-based Portobello Press has made a significant investment in Kodak covering CTP, plates and software.

Soaring silver cost forces Agfa to consider price rises

Printers using Agfa Graphics' film are likely to face price rises in the near future as a result of the soaring price of silver - a key component of graphic arts film.

DuPont announces price increase and fuel surcharge for Cyrel Products

DuPont Packaging Graphics has announced a global price hike for all Cyrel products, due to come into effect on 16 May, that will mean a net increase of up to 7% depending on the product.

Print Essex buys Xerox and Presstek to boost commercial work

Print Essex, the University of Essex's print facility, has installed a Xerox 700 and Presstek 52DI to boost its presence in the commercial market.

Advocate printing and publishing inks management information system deal with prism

Nova Scotia, Canada-based Advocate Printing and Publishing announced this week it plans to install Prism WIN management information system (MIS) and Prism QTMS production management system to help...

When yesterday ended and tomorrow began

If there was a watershed year in recent times, it was 1995 as the internet, PDF and the home PC took hold, as Frank Romano explains.

Heidelberg manufactures 4000th Suprasetter

The 4,000th Suprasetter has rolled off the production line at Heidelberg's Wiesloch-Walldorf site in Germany, seven years after the platesetter was unveiled at Drupa 2004.