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X-Rite has launched what it claims is the most comprehensive device in the market for measuring dots on a plate.

Escher-Grad launched a B3 violet laser platesetter at Ipex. President and chief executive Najeeb Khalid estimated 85% of visitors to the Escher-Grad stand at the show were there to look at the Cobalt...

Xaar has linked up with Swedish company Thin Film Electronics to produce the worlds first printed random access memory (RAM).

Students from Northgate High School in Ipswich were declared winners of the inaugural PrintIT! awards ceremony, which took place at Ipex on 8 April.

Oriel Printing has spent 4m on two Heidelberg presses, which will be installed at its new site in Hull.

Image Data Group bought two iGen3s as part of a massive investment in digital firepower. The deal included the option of running up to 10 machines by the end of 2007, which would make it one of the...

Kelvin Graphics signed for two Mitsubishi presses at Ipex, part of 1.7m investment, as it moves to consolidate five production sites into one and increase its turnover from 3m to 5m.

Press-sense has launched Omnium, a software package that offers total business flow automation for print, according to the Israeli firm.

Lord Heseltine, owner of <i>PrintWeek</i>-publisher Haymarket Publishing, has called for the publishing industry to support the small newsagents who distribute the majority of magazines, possibly...

KBA Commander presses have been chosen for a massive pressroom upgrade at Trinity Mirror Printing, Glasgow.

Amicus GPMS members have approved the 2006 pay deal negotiated between the union and the BPIF.

Print legend Joe Tanner, the former non-executive director of Butler and Tanner, died last week aged 78.

Bosses at Smurfit Print UK have led an MBO at the envelope manufacturing arm of global packaging group Smurfit.

Drupa is teaming up with Haymarket, publisher of <i>PrintWeek</i> and German print title <i>Druck & Medien</i>, for a new and enhanced show paper, <i>Drupa Daily</i>, when the worlds largest print...

On the closing day of Ipex 2006, industry association Picon revealed that it had sold the show to its organiser IIR Exhibitions.