Pre-media

The world has changed and so must we
The imminent demise of The Independent in printed form, unsurprisingly, triggered a rush of commentators to once again predict the end of printed publications.

Star product: Enfocus PitStop Pro 13.1
The latest version of this top-end preflighting and editing suite adds extra functionality.

Spectrum adds extra digital and platemaking capacity
Spectrum Printing Services has beefed up platemaking and digital capacity after enjoying growth in business across both litho and digital services.

Digitalprinting.co.uk boosts capacity with HP Indigo press and SmartStream buy
Digitalprinting.co.uk has invested in HP’s SmartStream Production Centre for its new Series 3 Indigo 7R press and two existing Indigo machines as it prepares for a push into trade printing.

EFI doubles Productivity Suite portfolio at Connect
EFI has used its annual Connect user conference to unveil three additions to its Productivity Suite portfolio and a new portal to promote the power of print.

Coping with your worst nightmare
Those images on Monday 28 December were horrifying, and remain unforgettable. Like most people, Chris Milner had been tuning into TV news channels over the Christmas period, gripped with cold...

Flint Group launches 'lightweight' rotec sleeve
Flint Group has launched rotec, a lightweight sleeve for conventional plate mounting with adhesive tapes that it said boasts weight savings of 40% compared with standard sleeves.

60 seconds with Datum
Datum started back in 1988 in Shoreditch, London, as a pre-press company supplying plates and proofs to the local litho printers. It left behind its London roots in 2000 when the business relocated to...

Me & my: Infigo MegaEdit
Collaboration with web-to-print developer Infigo was the key to London digital printer Rapidity winning a big web-to-print contract with property agent Cluttons.

Kodak plans further revamp of European sales structure
Kodak is planning to reorganise its sales territories in a move that could see the UK become part of a ‘Southern Europe’ cluster along with France, Spain and Italy.