Equipment manufacturers

Ricoh awarded ninth consecutive FTSE4Good rating

Digital manufacturer Ricoh has been included in the FTSE4Good ethical share index for the ninth consecutive year after achieving a best practice rating for its environmental policy and management.

Xerox posts Q1 revenue rise, shifts focus to BPO

Xerox saw its Q1 revenues rise slightly over the same period in 2011 to $5.5bn, while pre-tax profit declined 11% to $313m as the company continued its shift from a hardware/technology provider into...

Digital finishes first in the race for run-lengths: Drupa post-press preview

The job of the finishing manufacturer is generally a reactive one: whatever the press manufacturers, both digital and litho, have planned for the future, the finishing manufacturers must be able to...

Shere Print buys UK's first Indigo WS6600 digital press

Newly formed packaging company Shere Print is to install the UK's first HP Indigo WS6600 digital press for the production of digital, narrow web packaging solutions.

Drupa preview: post-press stand-by-stand

FeragHall 15, Stand D25At Drupa 2012, Ferag will introduce TapeFix, a system to secure insert collections. TapeFix takes the place of a wrapper to ensure that collections stay together. TapeFix is...

FFEI to launch cloud-based profiling tool at Drupa

FFEI will launch a cloud-based colour management tool, RealPro Colour Cloud, at Drupa next month (Hall 05, C18).

Vulcan 714 sales pioneer Bob Curtis passes away

Robert "Bob" Curtis, a driving force behind establishing the revolutionary Vulcan 714 printing blanket in the UK, has died aged 73.

Fujifilm to launch new inkjet web press at Drupa

Fujifilm has announced the surprise launch of an inkjet web press, which it will show as a technology demo at next month's Drupa 2012 exhibition (Hall 08b, A25).

NEC to demo colour management at The O2

NEC Display Solutions will demonstrate a colour managed workflow using the SpectraView monitor at its fourth annual Solutions Showcase at The O2 next week.

LumaPix unveils FotoFusion 5

LumaPix has announced v5 of its FotoFusion photobook layout tool, following two years of development on the core engine.