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The Practical Printer has invested in a Cron B2 computer-to-plate (CtP) system, the first machine to be installed into the UK market since HighWater CTP took over UK distribution in May last year.

Milton Keynes-based Murrays The Printers has doubled its premises and added new litho, digital and wide-format machines on the back of revenues increasing 20% year-on-year.

Printbylaser has purchased a second Heidelberg A75 Suprasetter as it continues to invest in its expansion plans.

IML Labels & Systems has lauded Shuttleworth's MIS remote access software after it enabled the company to maintain customer contact during the recent severe weather.

James Townsend has given an official launch to its new reprographics company, Think Repro, which aims to deliver "quality services at speed".

PerfectProof UK has launched a new colour accurate soft-proofing tool to the UK market that it hopes could lead to the widespread adoption of the technology.

Commercial printer Herbert Walkers has installed a Prinect workflow and Suprasetter S105 from Heidelberg.

HP has announced the public release of its new HP SmartStream software developers kit (SDK), which allows third-party web-to-print, workflow and MIS developers to integrate their tools with Indigo...

Soft proofing systems are an increasingly popular way to cut cost and waste out of the print production process, discovers Simon Creasey