July 2006 Xelix said it filled a gap in the soft-proofing market with the launch of its Windows-based PDF2Proof software
 
September 2006 Agfa set its sights on the small-format sector with the launch of its Agfa Avalon SF, which could produce up to 25 plates an hour for B2 printers
 
September 2006 Heidelberg targeted SME printers with its latest entry-level additions to the Suprasetter range of platesetters, the A52 and A74 models
 
February 2007 Luscher unveiled its XPose! conventional platesetter with laser diodes, which were the reason behind the £400,000 price tag
 
May 2007 HighWater Designs made its foray into 8-up plate production with the launch of the Cobra 8 B1 platesetter
 
October 2007 EskoArtwork unveiled the Esko Digital Flexo Suite, a package comprising a collection of EskoArtwork’s platemaking software

March 2008 Screen unveiled the world’s largest platesetter, the PlateRite Ultima 48000, capable of imaging plates for 96pp large-format web presses

July 2008 Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF) became an ISO standard, some 18 months after Adobe released its PDF 1.7 specification to AIIM

April 2009 Agfa Graphics launched a conventional plate range designed specifically for Lüscher’s Xpose! UV platesetter

September 2009 X-Rite launched a lower-cost scanning spectrophotometer, EasyTrax, that it said made it easier for smaller printers to achieve the ISO 12647-2 standard

September 2009 Presstek launched its first processed plate, the Presstek Aeon, in a bid to break out of its chemistry-free niche

September 2009 Epson launched an inkjet printer with white ink aimed at the packaging proofing market

. The Epson Stylus Pro WT7900 is a 610mm-wide printer which uses the first water-based white ink