Equipment manufacturers

Fujifilm UK furnishes service team with extra dotmeters
Fujifilm UK has bought three additional Centurfax microDot dotmeters to allow its service team to confirm the quality of plate creation during installation and ongoing customer support visits.

Colourwise moves in with its biggest client and installs a 10-colour SM 74
Sussex-based printer Colourwise claimed the move, along with a 500,000 investment in new equipment, will help it meet increased demand for its services.

Landa and Komori form global strategic partnership
Landa Corporation and Komori have announced a global strategic partnership that will put Landa's nano print technology at the heart of Komori's next-generation digital presses.

Ricoh awarded ninth consecutive FTSE4Good rating
Digital manufacturer Ricoh has been included in the FTSE4Good ethical share index for the ninth consecutive year after achieving a best practice rating for its environmental policy and management.

Xerox posts Q1 revenue rise, shifts focus to BPO
Xerox saw its Q1 revenues rise slightly over the same period in 2011 to $5.5bn, while pre-tax profit declined 11% to $313m as the company continued its shift from a hardware/technology provider into...

Digital finishes first in the race for run-lengths: Drupa post-press preview
The job of the finishing manufacturer is generally a reactive one: whatever the press manufacturers, both digital and litho, have planned for the future, the finishing manufacturers must be able to...

Shere Print buys UK's first Indigo WS6600 digital press
Newly formed packaging company Shere Print is to install the UK's first HP Indigo WS6600 digital press for the production of digital, narrow web packaging solutions.

Drupa preview: post-press stand-by-stand
FeragHall 15, Stand D25At Drupa 2012, Ferag will introduce TapeFix, a system to secure insert collections. TapeFix takes the place of a wrapper to ensure that collections stay together. TapeFix is...

FFEI to launch cloud-based profiling tool at Drupa
FFEI will launch a cloud-based colour management tool, RealPro Colour Cloud, at Drupa next month (Hall 05, C18).

Vulcan 714 sales pioneer Bob Curtis passes away
Robert "Bob" Curtis, a driving force behind establishing the revolutionary Vulcan 714 printing blanket in the UK, has died aged 73.