It has launched TenCaCid CTP Premium Green, TenCaCid Premium Gold, both of which are said to offer exceptional wetting on CTP plates, with the latter also preventing plate wear when using metallics.

Its main fount solution, TenCaCid Superior, offers printers sharper and cleaner start-ups and can reduce alcohol to 4% or lower, according to TPS.

Steve Brading, Paperlinx business development director, said: "We've worked very closely with a European chemistry manufacturer in the launch of these three products, which is unusual for a merchant to do.

"Premium Green is a proven product in mainline Europe, and has established green credentials, while Premium Gold is a product that can be used by printers for their metallic products.

"Superior is about alcohol reduction, this is a really hot topic for printers now. We are confident it will help them achieve alcohol reduction. We are committed to good and consistent products."

TPS, which declined to reveal which European consumables manufacturer it had partnered with on the products, supplies pre-press products, blankets, press chemicals, inks and coatings to customers of merchant Paperlinx's operating companies PaperCo and Robert Horne Group.

Brading added that TPS is committed to "good and consistent" products, and that it works with its own labels and also offers other brands.