Companies & suppliers

Ink Shop on track to boost profits following shift in business strategy

Scottish printer Ink Shop has claimed a new business strategy and investment programme will achieve a five-fold profitability increase this year while cutting 750,000 of unprofitable revenue.

Fans of print on paper flock to GF Smith event

GF Smith expects well over 3,000 visitors to have attended its Beauty in the Making event by the time the exhibit closes this evening.

Iconic Pirelli calendar outsourced to HH Global

Pirelli has outsourced print management for its 2012 calendar for the first time to BPO firm HH Global.

Hartgraph installs second Speedmaster press in 400,000 investment

Commercial printer Hartgraph has invested in its second five-colour Speedmaster press as a replacement for an older machine.

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.

Pantone expands Plus Series with 336 new colours

Pantone has expanded its Pantone Plus Series colour library with the addition of 336 new colours, largely based on the Pantone Goe System.

StudioRIP to show new DFE capability at Drupa

StudioRIP (Hall 7a, E14), the UK-based independent RIP developer, will demonstrate the latest advances to its eponymous RIP at Drupa 2012 next week.

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...

Will DM technology usher in a new screening revolution?

Whether, conventional, stochastic or hybrid, or to use their respective abbreviations AM, FM or XM, halftone screens have long been associated with improving print quality. From the mid-nineties to...

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...