Pre-media

The latest version of the PPA Pass4press specifications were launched last week at the PPA forum on digital production workflow.

Quark has announced a new promotion whereby anyone purchasing a full version of QuarkXPress 8 will receive an additional licence, worth 779, free of charge.

Screenprint Productions has completed its consolidation onto a single site in Brighouse, West Yorkshire and commissioned its Meital 302 flatbed digital press.

Software specialist Adobe has announced plans to slash its global workforce by 9%, eliminating some 680 full-time positions, in a bid to realign its costs in connection with its 2010 operating plan.

Alwan Color Expertise has opened up its Print Standardizer software to all online auto-scanning devices embedded in sheetfed presses.

Kodak's Graphic Communications Group is mourning the loss of its global plate technology expert Steve Doyle, who died on 1 November, aged 56.

Graphic Republik has signed a European distribution agreement with Star Proof developer ISI Graphic System that will result in it offering ISI's dot-proofing software with the Epson Stylus Pro WT7900.

Software developer Dims! has picked up its fifth certification for JDF interoperability from the Printing Industries of America (PIA), which is the testing body of the CIP4.

Mark Varty, director of ImageHaus, says all of its workflow bottlenecks were eliminated after upgrading to Agfa's Apogee Suite 6, finds Philip Chadwick