Pre-media

Caractacus Potts visualises the complete package

Approaching its 10th anniversary, Creative Edge Software (CES) still has the characteristics of a start-up with bright ideas, taking on the established giant in the rather the specialist area of 3D...

Pantone "will continue to explore new partnerships with other digital design focused companies"

Adobe to drop Pantone colour system

Print and pre-press professionals have expressed disquiet about the information gap around Adobe’s decision to remove Pantone Color Libraries from future versions of its Creative Cloud products.

Barbara Braun-Metz with ColorLogic CTO Thorsten Braun

Hybrid Software buys colour specialist

Hybrid Software Group has acquired Germany’s ColorLogic to boost its capabilities in ‘beyond CMYK’ applications.

Ascend: "best of both worlds with CMYK plus embellishment"

Kodak targets embellishment opportunity with new Ascend

Kodak CEO Jim Continenza has vowed that the firm will be “the last company standing in plates” as the manufacturer announced a raft of new products including a new electrophotographic digital press...

Perkins: "it’s long been our intention to give the wealth away"

Canva valuation soars on fresh funding

Graphic design platform Canva has been valued at an astonishing $40bn (£29bn) after its latest fundraising round.

Docufy sale proceeds will be used for future investments

Heidelberg sells tech doc business

Heidelberg expects to bring in at least €20m (£17.2m) after agreeing to sell another non-core business.

Trident team delighted with the new VeloBlade Volta 69+

Trident Creative Group enhances prototyping with new VeloBlade

Sonoco-Trident has boosted its creative services offering for mock-ups and samples with the installation of a VeloBlade Volta digital die-cutter from Vivid.

New system includes employee engagement tool

Tharstern demos first look at new Cloud product

Tharstern has revealed further details of its new cloud-based MIS, with an online demo attended by a worldwide audience of customers and potential customers.

Moët Hennessy used Blue Bite with NFC tech to create an exclusive consumer experience

Markem-Imaje adds shoppable software tech

Markem-Imaje has acquired tech firm Blue Bite, which develops software for brand authentication and ‘product commerce’ whereby any product can be turned into a sales channel.

New Rentals and Reservations module manages item availability and schedules reservations

EFI adds item rental tools to W2P

EFI has added a new function to its MarketDirect StoreFront web-to-print system that allows users to manage rentals – for example items used in exhibitions and events.