News

Pass4press version 2 was unveiled yesterday (Thursday 29 November) at the PPAs 2002 Digital Production Conference by pass4press committee co-chair and Emap UK pre-press and print buyer Andy Franks

Pre-press products from Adobe and Fujifilm Electronic Imaging scooped awards at last week's <i>MacUser </i>Awards

CreoScitex is pushing the ability of its stochastic screening software, Staccato, to produce a 10-micron dot which it claims is the smallest available as a way for printers to cut waste and costs

West Ferry Printers and the GPMU have started a series of meetings about a proposal to cut 100 jobs at the Docklands-based newspaper printing plant

Thomas Potts is still on the hunt for acquisitions despite losing out on Keldia Printing

KBA has posted encouraging third-quarter results and is on course to record its highest sales and profit figures in its 184-year history

The Beacon Press and Polestar became the first print companies to join the WWF 95+ Group as the WWF global environmental network celebrated its tenth anniversary in London last week

The former company secretary of Derby-based printer Tranters has received a one-year suspended jail sentence and a community rehabilitation order after pleading guilty to stealing more than 25,000

Wyndeham recorded an interim pre-tax loss after exceptional items and goodwill amortisation of 113,000, compared to a profit of 6.6m this time last year

Former Polestar PowerPrint managing director Stephen Clark is returning to UK printing as managing director of Southernprint

George Waterston & Sons has agreed to buy the business of fellow Edinburgh-based printer Mackenzie & Storrie

De La Rue could benefit from September's terrorist attacks as countries step up their security

J Thomson Colour Printers has bought Scotland's first 12-colour press, a Heidelberg SM 102-12P, as part of an on-going self-financed 3.5m investment

Polestar chief executive Barry Hibbert and Richard Warner, head of corporate investment Europe for the group's major shareholder, Investcorp, will be speakers at next year's Comprint

All 41 staff at Pheon Press in Whitchurch have been made redundant after the company closed its doors and appointed administrative receivers