Consumables

Killer app: Put fluorescents on the map

Uckfield-based Pureprint Group helped Eye Magazine to wow its readership with its first ever seven-colour cover for this month's issue of the quarterly graphic design title, which was printed using...

Printers to be hit by further price hikes

Printers are to be hit by further price hikes after consumable companies announced they are making increases.

Sappi targets digital print market with Jaz launch

Paper manufacturer Sappi is to target the digital print market with the launch of its Jaz paper range at the Hunkeler Innovationdays in Switzerland.

Printers hit with new price rises

Paper manufacturers are poised to launch another round of price increases as a result of continuing energy and raw material costs in a move that has dismayed printers.

Robert Horne launches Yupo Tako

Robert Horne has launched Yupo Tako, a recyclable polypropylene film that sticks to flat surfaces without the use of adhesives.

TPS launches three fount solutions into UK market

Paperlinx graphic consumables subsidiary Total Print Supplies (TPS) has introduced three fount solutions to the UK market.

Technology Report: Don't get caught in the ink storm

While ink price rises may make many see red, suppliers are aiding printers with a whole gamut of ways of converting their blues into green, writes Jon Severs

Buyers' Guide: Pressroom consumables

While low-cost chemicals may appeal, they could increase costs in the long term, warns Noli Dinkovski

Administrators move in as SOS (NW) collapses

Press kit supplier Service Offset Supplies North West (SOS (NW)) has gone into administration.

Kodak blames overcapacity for poor pre-press performance in Q4

Kodak's share price dropped 30% last week after it reported a fourth quarter pre-tax loss of $73m (46m), down 115% on last year's $486m profit.