Pre-media

Another year, another Acrobat upgrade, although Adobe's announcement of Acrobat 8 is actually a few months late in its usual 18-month cycle. The launch date is officially "Q4", with the likelihood of...

Express WorkFlow has grown up. When Compose first introduced it early in 2003 it was intended as an affordable front-end for the new breed of low-cost 2pp and 4pp platesetters. Unexpectedly, the main...

Shawn Newsome, managing director of Corniche Fine Arts, has saved time with his proofer and its matching system.

Even without the most favourable of market conditions, it makes good business sense to provide your customers with everything they want, and this is especially true if you are Heidelberg. In the UK,...

E-ssential is a new web-to-print system developed by Adstream and already running in a handful of UK test sites. It allows on-line creation of documents based on pre-defined templates, accessed...

According to TL Visuals managing director Charles Lewitt, this estimating tool has cut the time it takes for his firm to quote jobs

When platesetters began their slow but steady ascent, the earliest devices were generally aimed at B1 printers. By the late 1990s, smaller printers wanted to move into CTP and this prompted Scitex to...

Sansui PublishNow! started its life a few years ago as a newspaper ad creation system that allowed customers to create their own ads via web browsers and templates particularly using Sansuis...

The very first batch of PlateRite 4000s were shipped out in early 2000 and the model has been selling at a rate of 45 machines per year ever since. The machine has been speeded up, in addition to...

This weeks Product of the Week is a bit of an experiment. Were trying to discover whether a low-cost desktop scanner can be taken seriously for print production. The Epson Perfection V750 Pro flatbed...