Agfa

Agfa has taken the wraps off its SpeedSet 1060 B1 format sheetfed inkjet press at a VIP customer event in Cambridge.

East Sussex company Simply Beautiful Print installed an Agfa Avinci CX3200 wide-format printer and Klieverik calender in late September, bringing dye-sublimation work in-house.

The Big Ink Tank has installed an Agfa Anapurna H3200i UV LED, its first new wide-format printer, as part of a £200,000 spend.

Agfa has declined to engage in discussions with privately held healthcare IT and biomedical informatics company Kanteron Systems, from which it received a potential takeover bid earlier this week.

Agfa’s revenue and gross profit both declined in Q2, continuing the trend seen in Q1.

PrintBig has installed a new Agfa Anapurna H3200i LED flatbed to do the work of three machines in a bid to boost productivity by up to 40%.

Agfa has reported declines in both its revenue and gross profit in the first quarter of 2018.

Agfa Graphics has launched the new Adamas plate, which is said to offer all of the benefits of existing chem-free alternatives but “brings robustness to a whole new level”.

Agfa-Gevaert has reported a drop in both revenue and gross profit in its 2018 results.

Print-Leeds has signed a new five-year plate contact with Agfa and invested in the manufacturer’s Arkana processor and Asanti wide-format workflow software.

Agfa Graphics has acquired Watford-based software developer and reseller Bodoni Systems.

Isle of Man-based printer Bridson & Horrox has installed new Agfa Apogee Cloud software across all of its sites, having acquired two companies in Lancashire over the past year.