Companies & suppliers

Print software manufacturer Optimus will launch a modular web-to-print tool, which integrates with its existing Optimus Dash and 2020 MIS software, at Fespa next month.

Eastman Kodak and its US subsidiaries have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after the digital imaging and pre-press giant ran out of money to finance its stuttering transformation.

Lscher has partnered with MacDermid to launch Accent, a new flexo coating plate for packaging and commercial print applications that can be imaged like a normal litho plate on Lscher's XPose! UV...

Loricas Solutions is a growing north-east-based direct mail house that has been in operation in one form or another for around 22 years. The firm rebranded last year from NEMC Design and Print,...

Heidelberg will cut up to 2,000 jobs worldwide in 2012 as the German press manufacturer aims to achieve savings of 180m (149m) in the 2013/14 financial year.

Total Print Supplies (TPS), the Paperlinx consumables company, has become the UK's exclusive distributor for Shackell Edwards' Silkoseal silk sealer range.

HP is to showcase its digital products and applications at Drupa 2012's second largest stand, a 4,952sqm exhibition space.

European gravure print group CirclePrinters has appointed Maarten Coerman to its group management board as chief operating officer.

Negotiations for the sale of Manroland have entered the final stages, with a shortlist of two different bid proposals due to be presented to creditors on Wednesday (18 January).

Drupa organiser Messe Dsseldorf has created a trade campaign to promote the global exhibition using augmented reality.