Pre-media

Appy new year: print gadgets for your phone and tablet

Where are all the print apps? Since the launch of the Apple iPad just five years ago, tablet computers have seen a rapid take-up for both business and personal use. They’re now offered by all sorts of...

Hobs Reprographics attracts £7m BGF investment

Hobs Reprographics has become the latest print business to attract funding from the Business Growth Fund (BGF).

Grafenia offers £50k of grants to 100 Nettl customers

Grafenia is offering £50,000 worth of grants to SMEs looking to develop their online presence through its new cross-media franchise, Nettl.

River increases Healthy magazine run length for newsstand launch

Content marketing agency The River Group has upped the run length of Holland & Barrett's customer magazine by 30% as it prepares to roll the title out to newsstands nationwide next month.

MBO at Imprima print operation

Imprima has been split into two businesses with an MBO team taking over the financial printing side of the operation.

Lanes boosts production efficiencies with Screen PlateRite 8600N-S buy

Commercial printer Lanes Printers has invested in a new Screen PlateRite 8600N-S B1 thermal platesetter to deliver a more efficient and productive plate production workflow to its growing offset print...

Latcham Direct extends web-to-print capability with second XMPie server

Latcham Direct has extended its web-to-print data processing capability with the addition of a second XMPie uProduce server, dedicated to a specific insurance customer.

Duplo to launch Northern Lights event in Manchester in 2015

Duplo will look to replicate the success of London Calling in the north of England next year with a new show, Northern Lights, launching in Manchester in March.

The art of repro in the digital world

What happened to repro? Around a decade or so ago most photographs were still taken on film and getting them into halftone print required high-quality scanners together with repro operators with the...

Galloways improves colour accuracy with GMG software buy

Commercial printer Galloways has invested in GMG proofing and colour management software to offer its clients a high level of colour accuracy from proof to print, while reducing ink costs.