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EFI and X-Rite launch new Fiery-compliant spectrophotometer

EFI has struck a deal with manufacturer X-Rite to integrate its scanning spectrophotometer with the EFI Fiery Color Profiler Suite to provide “next-generation digital print colour measurement”.

AMS releases new mailing application software for Challenger

Mailroom equipment supplier Addressing & Mailing Solutions (AMS) has released new mailing application software for the Grutzmacher Challenger large production inserting system.

SAI launches Flexi 12 software

SA International (SAI) has launched Flexi 12 RIP software, which it said offers new tools for signmakers and wide-format printers.

Core Image switches to Heidelberg thermal CTP platesetter

Core Image has upgraded its CTP by switching from a visible light Heidelberg Prosetter to a thermal Suprasetter A52.

Tharstern seeks global growth with US venture

Tharstern is using next month's Graph Expo 15 in Chicago as a launchpad for its expansion into the US, one year after a management buyout.

Why achieving marginal gains is worth the price

In winning the 2015 Tour de France last month Chris Froome did something no British rider had managed before, becoming the first to win the race two times.

Overmatter: bin blunder

Overmatter still wakes up in cold sweat sometimes, upon remembering a head-scratching hoo-hah back in the day when attempting to create the artwork for self-cling window decals, which needed to be...

Star product: Heidelberg Prinect Digital Front End

Workflow for the press manufacturer’s latest digital devices.

UCI seeks hot metal typesetters

Calling all hot metal typesetters – Urban Cottage Industries (UCI) is looking for skilled operators as it takes its ‘Juggernaut’ mobile typesetting system on the road.

Find the savings at the end of the rainbow

As kids we hear the story that there is a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. Pretty soon it sinks in that the end of a rainbow is an elusive and illusory thing. Indeed, colour itself can sometimes...