Pre-media

Monotype Imaging has added more than 100 new typeface designs to its Monotype, Linotype and ITC collections.

Large-format poster and point-of-sale specialist Outdoor Partners has upgraded its pre-press offering with the installation of Fujifilm's XMF workflow.

Pre-press technologies dominated at this year's InterTech Technology Awards, where Alwan, EskoArtwork, HiFlex and Kodak all received recognition.

Third-party QuarkXPress XTensions-developers have announced a promotion for the upcoming launch of QuarkXPress 8.

Adobe's ubiquitous Portable Document Format (PDF) has become an ISO standard, some 18 months after Adobe released its PDF 1.7 specification to AIIM, the enterprise content management association.

Earthtone has launched a "no risk" e-commerce platform for printers, which aims to take advantage of a global web-to-print market that is expected to reach 7.2bn by 2010.

EFI is gearing up for its ninth annual Connect user conference, which kicks off at the end of this month at the Wynn hotel in Las Vegas.

F1 Colour is currently running live tests with Express KCS and Seven Publishing prior to launching a locally managed offshore prepress service for UK publishers.

Quark has announced its acquisition of the XML-authoring software developer In.vision Research Corporation for an undisclosed amount.

Middlesex-based Star Print is to start offering a plate bureau service to local printers following the purchase of a Suprasetter A74 computer-to-plate system from Heidelberg.