Consumables

Label and flexible packaging specialist Mark Andy has acquired Direct Imaging press and plates specialist Presstek from its private equity owners, in the latest consolidation play among industry...

Kodak has released its full-year and Q4 2017 earnings, posting $94m in net earnings for the year, but with revenue down 7% to $1.5bn (£1.1bn), from $1.64bn in 2016.

Ricoh UK is launching a new ink range for its Pro VC60000 continuous-feed inkjet machines designed to print directly onto traditional offset coated substrates without primers.

Kodak claims that its new Sonora X plates mean “nearly every" offset printer can now benefit from process-free platemaking.

Sun Chemical and Luminescence are to show off their combined portfolios for banknote production at the Security Printers show later this month.

It’s unlikely to have escaped anybody’s attention that consumables costs have been steadily on the up lately.

Water-based textile inks supplier MagnaColours has launched an improved bleed blocking ink for use on 100% polyester and other fabrics where dye migration is a problem.

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.

By way of a complete contrast with the last Overmatter column, which looked at the macabre practice of anthropodermic bibliopegy, we now turn to a rather more 21st-century topic that will be music to...

We’re just a month and a half into 2018 and the packaging industry’s sustainability agenda has been firmly set for the forthcoming year – and indeed beyond.