Pre-media

When platesetters began their slow but steady ascent, the earliest devices were generally aimed at B1 printers. By the late 1990s, smaller printers wanted to move into CTP and this prompted Scitex to...

Sansui PublishNow! started its life a few years ago as a newspaper ad creation system that allowed customers to create their own ads via web browsers and templates particularly using Sansuis...

The very first batch of PlateRite 4000s were shipped out in early 2000 and the model has been selling at a rate of 45 machines per year ever since. The machine has been speeded up, in addition to...

This weeks Product of the Week is a bit of an experiment. Were trying to discover whether a low-cost desktop scanner can be taken seriously for print production. The Epson Perfection V750 Pro flatbed...

David McCormick, joint owner and director of John McCormick in Glasgow, can now pinpoint and fix productivity problems

Crown Litho managing director Bob Avery enjoys the Acento's high-quality platemaking abilities coupled with its eco-friendliness.

New laser diodes have boosted the productivity of basysPrint's UV-Setters which, until recently, were the only litho platesetters that could expose conventional' UV-sensitive metal plates. In October,...

Ritchie (UK) has improved the visibility of its workflow with a future-proof, open software system, according to its pre-press manager Alan Urquhart

SR Communications has emerged from its software installation with a fresh structure and happy customers, says development manager Kevin Bird

At Ipex 1998, Fujifilm launched its first thermal CTP product: the Luxel T-9000 with the Brillia LH-PI plate and FLH-P processor. Fujifilm Graphic Systems marketing director Graham Leeson explains:...