News

The average total salary for workers in the printing industry increased by 5.27% to 32,197 last year, according to the results of the BPIF and SPEF annual survey for 2001.

Extensis has revealed the product road-map for Preflight Online.

Global Graphics has completed the sale of its hardware division to an MBO led by chief executive Gary Jones.

Print Design & Graphics (PDG), the Newcastle-based packaging printer, has ordered a Creo CTP system from the NCS Group, in a deal worth 300,000.

Polestar has invested over 700,000 in two CTP installations at its Taylowe and Wheatons sites, as part of a group strategy that will see all its UK and European sites go digital by May 2003.

Fashion photographic specialist Metro Imaging has invested 75,000 in workflow and proofing equipment to provide enhanced digital services.

Garnett Dickinson, the Rotherham print group, has more than doubled its in-house platesetting capacity with its investment in an Agfa Xcalibur VLF 60 CTP system, ordered at Ipex.

Aspire Print & Repro has invested 330,000 in a Heidelberg QM46 DI, in a bid to open up "new revenue streams".

NUR will reveal a prototype flatbed printer at Fespa, which has been designed to print on a range of substrates from corrugated board, PVC, glass, polycarbonate and standard media.

Printcafe has notched up three sales of its PrintSmith MIS for quickprinters.

Island Scan has bought the first Xeikon DCP 500 D digital press in the UK from the "new Xeikon" after Xeikon was bought by Belgian firm Punch in March this year.

M-real Sittingbourne has won the Jefferson Smurfit Memorial Safety Award, having achieved the most significant progress in health and safety improvements since 1998.

Sappi Nash Mills is looking to develop its European business and is set to announce the UK merchant partners for its new Contemporary by Croxley grade (<i>PrintWeek</i>, 28 March).

IPC is centralising all its jobbing commercial print procurement via an e-commerce site and producing a preferred suppliers list.

Edotech, the Tewkesbury-based outsourcing group, has won a two-year extension to its Thames Water print contract.