Pre-media

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.

UK software developer Creative Edge is poised to launch new tools for carton and shrinkwrap creation using its IC3D packaging design and visualisation system.

TheMagicTouch has released its new design and marketing package, TheMagicArt Collection, and XL transfer paper, for A4 OKI printers.

How times have changed. Just over a decade or so ago, most commercial printers relied on just a CTP for imaging and needed only one RIP, or a workflow with an embedded RIP, to drive it.