Pre-media

Agfa-Gevaert chief financial officer Kris Hoornaert has been forced to deny rumours that the company has received an offer from Dutch electronics company Philips.

Suffolk printer and publisher, Southwold Press, has been awarded a government grant towards the purchase of a Presstek Vector TX25 platesetter, due to its environmentally friendly credentials.

Quark has kicked off a 58-city world tour to introduce creative professionals around the globe to the latest version of its eponymous publishing software.

EskoArtwork's Enfocus Switch 08 suite of automated workflow tools is now shipping, following its March acquisition of former Switch-developer Gradual Software.

X-Rite has reported sales of between 36m ($71.5m) and 36.6m in its preliminary second quarter 2008 results and stressed that it is on track with its loan repayments.

Communisis has signed a 1.5m euro (1.2m) deal with Pitney Bowes-subsidiary Emtex Software for provision of its Production Intelligence enterprise output management software.

Pindar has announced that it has entered into an agreement to dispose of its directory division Pindar Set Ltd, to Yell, the international directories business.

Witherbys Lithoflow has installed Screen's Spekta 2 hybrid AM/FM screening to allow it to produce high-quality output even when customers provide lower-quality source material.

Following a 2m jump in turnover, drinks label specialist Darley is to pump 1m into an investment programme in a bid to boost capacity by 50% over the next three years.

The internet regulator is paving the way for companies to apply for a wide range of new top level domain names (TLD).