Pre-media

EFI has acquired UK-based MIS provider Technique as it continues to expand its presence in the software market.

Caldera has put colour standards compliance at the heart of its latest RIP release, version 9.10, with the aim of helping wide-format printers improve their output quality and profitability.

Classified Central Media (CCM) has won a two-year contract renewal with Reed Business Information as the sole supplier of its classified advert production.

Eastman Kodak has been told it must sell its digital imaging patent portfolio for "no less than $500m" as a condition of a new interim and exit finance facility totalling nearly $800m.

Printing.com is looking to its growing online presence to counteract the "challenging" trading environment across its Franchise network, which contributed to a drop in first half sales and earnings.

US font and typographic specialist Monotype Imaging Holdings has bought Northern Ireland-based web design company Design By Front.

Metallic effects software firm Color-Logic helped promote the power of print to hundreds of graphic designers last month at North American paper merchant Ariva's annual Smelt Fry.

The latest version of Esko's WebCenter online packaging management platform will allow customers to access files at any time from their Apple iPhone.

Type aficionados will have the chance to see rare items from the Monotype and Linotype archives at an exhibition in London later this month.