Pre-media

I swear by... Azura plates

<b>Phil Bailey, managing director, Bootyman Printers.<b/>

I swear by my... KBA SPC system

<b>Peter Allman, managing director, Brunswick Press.</b>

Compose launches automating prepress software

Compose Systems has launched Plate Controller V2, which the pre-press workflow company said will reduce production costs for CTP-driven printers.

Quark makes QPS8 Adobe-friendly

Software company Quark has announced that its Quark Publishing System 8 can now support both QuarkXpress and Adobe InDesign and Adobe InCopy.

EFI to sell part of campus and fund buy-back scheme

EFI has announced the sale of "a substantial portion" of its California-based campus, after it slipped to an $8.4m (5.3m) pre-tax loss in its third quarter results last week, compared to a $7.2m...

Workflow must check all the boxes

Most of the major suppliers including Agfa, Canon, Kodak, Heidelberg and Xerox are pushing a joint offset and digital production workflow. This strategy could work for large printers and service...

Star product: Shuttleworth digital dashboard

The Shuttleworth digital dashboard, a component of the Northampton-based firm's eponymous MIS, provides real-time production data through a sidebar on a user's desktop.

I swear by my... Suprasetter A52

The Suprasetter platesetter is about as environmentally friendly as you can get at the moment. At Armour, we were quite shocked when we realised just how many drums of chemistry waste we were shipping...

Kodak to sell Aprimo marketing software with Design2Launch

Kodak's Graphic Communications Group (GCG) has signed an agreement teaming its Design2Launch software with Aprimo's Enterprise Marketing Management (EMM) tools.