Pre-media

Walstead Investments has released its first results since the loss of the IPC Media contract, and has revealed that it has secured new work from e-tailers to help mitigate the lost volume.

Monotype has launched a cloud-based type service, Membership by Monotype, that grants access to more than 14,000 typefaces from the Monotype, Linotype, Ascender, Bitstream and ITC libraries.

Global Graphics has launched a Partner Network for developers that integrate its Harlequin RIP technology within their software.

EFI has continued its consolidation play in the MIS market by snapping up Dutch firm Dims!.

Breaches of data have made headlines in recent times, from Edward Snowden’s revelations about the National Security Agency to the loss by Paddy Power of nearly 700,000 customers’ details this July.

For many printers, beta testing a prospective bit of kit is something akin to a Top Gear challenge. The kit is put through its paces on all sorts of different jobs, the data’s crunched and pored over,...

Reusable presentation tool with movie capability.

Commercial print and design company Truprint Media has invested around £200,000 in a secondhand Komori L-528 five-colour B2 litho press and StudioRIP Workflow to increase its competitiveness.

MIS provider Shuttleworth Business Systems and equipment manufacturer KAS Paper Systems have outlined their plans for Print Efficiently 2014.

Color-Logic, the metallic effects software firm, has launched an interactive map to help graphic designers and brand managers locate Color-Logic certified printers.