The adoption of new technologies such as CTP hit Litho Supplies consumables sales and ate into its pre-tax profits.

Swindon-based Romney Packaging has ceased trading, with the loss of 65 jobs, after failing to find a buyer.

The adoption of CTP ate into Litho Supplies' sales of consumables and traditional pre-press equipment for the year to 31 December 2001 and its pre-tax profits dropped too.

Agfa will add an eight-up external drum 830nm thermal device to its CTP line-up at Ipex.

Marlowe Graphic Services (MGS) has been appointed as distributor for the former Scanview scanner and imagesetter products, and a dealer for the rest of the Barco-Purup-Eskofot (BPE) UK range of...

Agfa will announce its next-generation direct imaging (DI) plate at Ipex, which it claims increases run lengths "by a factor of four".

All the production partners are now in place for the official show newspaper at Ipex the <i>PrintWeek</i>-produced <i>Ipex Daily</i>.

Komori will launch a "completely new" B1 press, the Lithrone S40, at Ipex.

A forger of birth certificates, National Insurance cards and driving licences has been jailed for four and a half years after pleading guilty at Southwark Crown Court.

Global Graphics has signed a letter of intent to sell its Hardware division to Gary Jones, the division's chief operating officer.