Pre-media

MCM launches XMPie software as a managed service offering

Multi Channel Machine (MCM), an offshoot of Flyte Associates consultancy, has become the first company to offer XMPie cross-media software as a software as a managed service (SAAMS) solution.

Me & my: Enfocus Switch 11

It's easy for most of us to forget just how much work software is doing to make our lives easier day in, day out. Most of us, that is, apart from those courageous and clever souls whose job it is to...

Shuttleworth upgrade at Multisets streamlines work

Multisets Print Solutions has booted up the latest upgrade of its Shuttleworth MIS software to streamline production and save time.

Fiery rebound boosts EFI's Q3 earnings 16%

EFI posted a double-digit increase in third quarter revenues on the back of a near 25% year-on-year jump in Fiery revenues for the three months to 30 September.

EFI buys Metrix Software

EFI has acquired the automated print planning and imposition software developer Metrix for an undisclosed sum.

Apex debuts Mitsubishi Violet DigiPlate VDP-4 at Print Efficiently

Apex Digital Graphics gave a UK debut to Mitsubishi's Violet DigiPlate VDP-4 chemistry-free, B2-format platesetter at the Print Efficiently 2013 event at its Hemel Hempstead showroom last week.

RedTie seals cross-media deal

Web-to-print specialist RedTie Group has signed an exclusive licence agreement with US-based Easypurl to become sole provider of its cross media marketing tools in the UK and Ireland.

Kodak extends Sonora plate into newspaper applications

Kodak has this week launched a newspaper version of the Sonora thermal, process-free commercial printing plate that it unveiled at last year's Drupa.

Avon Graphic Technologies in administration

Litho, digital and wide-format print supplies business Avon Graphic Technologies has been placed in administration.