Software

GMG has launched ColorMaster 2.0, a colour workflow tool for standardising colour appearance across multiple print processes and specifications automatically.

Latest versions of Alwan's colour management suite target both big and small print operations

EFI has launched the latest version of its Fiery XF RIP and Colour Management Workflow system, the first to support third party superwide-format printers.

Automated estimating software specialist Brightblue has launched a white label version of its costing engine.

UK-based Haybrooke Associates has launched its popular print estimating solution, PDQ, to North America, and has already inked deals with two Canadian commercial printers.

Pro Copy, a Chichester-based digital print business, has reported a substantial improvement in the manageability of its services thanks to its installation of the Optimus Dash MIS system.

Gary Peeling, managing director of Precision Printing, has said its in-house-developed workflow, Oneflow, will allow printers to profit from the "only growth market in print" as he prepares to license...

Specialist self-adhesive product manufacturer, Mercian Labels, has invested in Xeikon's cloud-based colour management tool, Xeikon Color Control.

As part of the integration and rebranding of its two screen-print and large-format graphics operations, SSDM and Fenn Graphics, Aura Graphics has deployed a group-wide 40-seat Shuttleworth MIS.

Screen has shown its cloud-based Variable Front-end Service, which it expects to commercialise by the end of 2013.

Taopix has teamed up with US self-publishing engine FastPencil to offer its digital print customers a route into the wider market of book publishing.