Pre-media

FFEI has launched the first major upgrade to its RealPro Toolkit modular suite of design and production plug-ins for Adobe Illustrator.

Vpress has appointed Kevin Tyler, former head of UK sales at rival web-to-print software developer RedTie, to the role of business development manager.

Adobe has updated Creative Cloud adding nine tools for mobile use.

Color-Logic has flagged up an apparently little-known feature of its metallic effects software: the ability to handle variable data.

Walstead Investments has released its first results since the loss of the IPC Media contract, and has revealed that it has secured new work from e-tailers to help mitigate the lost volume.

Monotype has launched a cloud-based type service, Membership by Monotype, that grants access to more than 14,000 typefaces from the Monotype, Linotype, Ascender, Bitstream and ITC libraries.

Global Graphics has launched a Partner Network for developers that integrate its Harlequin RIP technology within their software.

EFI has continued its consolidation play in the MIS market by snapping up Dutch firm Dims!.

Breaches of data have made headlines in recent times, from Edward Snowden’s revelations about the National Security Agency to the loss by Paddy Power of nearly 700,000 customers’ details this July.

For many printers, beta testing a prospective bit of kit is something akin to a Top Gear challenge. The kit is put through its paces on all sorts of different jobs, the data’s crunched and pored over,...