Pre-media

Learning on the job

In reality TV the contestant’s journey – the struggle to become the best possible them – is a device to increase the entertainment value. In business there’s a more serious side to going on a journey,...

Star product: CorelDraw Graphics Suite 2017

An alternative to Adobe’s dominance in the graphic design software market with some key benefits and an established user base.

Vivid adds Color-Logic option for metallic effects

Vivid Laminating Technologies has partnered with Color-Logic to provide its users with a cost-effective way of producing high-value metallic effects.

Trio of print businesses combine to form new company

Three print companies have formed a new £16m-turnover outfit, MyLogicalGroup, aiming to provide an all-round pre-press, printing and print management service.

Bobst demonstrates enhanced flexo process for corrugated

Bobst has unveiled THQ FlexoCloud Technology, a four-colour flexo process, which it said offers a “quantum shift” in post-print flexo that will enable the process to challenge litho laminated...

Prevent web piracy with preparation

Last week’s ransomware attack that forced the NHS to cancel operations and affected organisations as diverse as FedEx, Renault and the Russian interior ministry may have been unprecedented in scale,...

ProCo in £1m litho spend

ProCo has invested around £1m in an SRA1 RMGT Ryobi 925 LED-UV press and a B1 Agfa Avalon N8 platesetter.

Neenah's new screen print stencil paper turns heads

Neenah Paper showed one of the star products at last week’s Fespa exhibition in Hamburg – a new type of transfer paper that simplifies the production of small-format screens for screen printers.

SAI to give European debut to number of products at Fespa

Software company SA International (SAI) is showing a number of new products and discussing new partnerships with its European audience for the first time at Fespa.

Kodak revenues slide but profits up in Q1

Kodak posted a net profit in the first quarter of 2017 of $7m (£5.4m), a $22m improvement on the same period last year, but sales were down 5%.