News

Picon charts supplier morale

The latest quarterly trends survey by Picon has shown a fall in confidence among machinery suppliers

Atlas posts best ever figures

Atlas Machinery, the Wakefield-based bindery equipment specialist, has celebrated its 10th anniversary by reporting a record year of trading

Baylis sale marks GUS exit from print

Great Universal Stores has sold its last print business

Last hot-metal press consigned to museum

The Science Museum has placed the last surviving Fleet Street hot-metal newspaper press on public display

Imacon launches flagship Flextight 848 scanner

Imacon has launched a new flagship scanner, the Flextight 848, and rewritten its software around a new image capture workflow

OPL and Botany join forces to gain digital benefits

Offset Products Limited has brought pre-press in-house to improve quality and reduce turnaround times

Downturn leads to further cuts at LS

Litho Supplies says it will not achieve profit expectations for the year

CreoScitex CSG launched to aid customer print

CreoScitex has launched a Consulting Services Group that will help customers to implement best practice in their pre-press and printing operations

Digital Xpress gets Crescendo

Digital Xpress has installed a Crescendo digital workflow at its Basildon base, and is looking to increase its capacity following its formation in June

Lscher launches its first B2 Xpose!

Swiss pre-press firm Lscher has launched a B2 version of its XPose! internal drum thermal platesetter and notched up the sale of its 200th machine

Ultrachem adds Lastra plates

Pressroom consumables firm Ultrachem has moved into pre-press consumables by signing a deal to sell Lastra plates in the UK

Eastern Counties News Group orders more Newsetters

Eastern Counties Newspaper Group has placed an order for a further two Kodak Polychrome Graphics Newsetter systems following a successful trial of thermal CTP

E-lumin adds Pelikon to stable

Caerphillys developmental communications company E-lumin has bought Cambridge Consultants electro-luminescent display arm, Pelikon

Oc buys Gretag's wide-format wing

Oc has bought the Professional Imaging division of struggling Swiss photofinishing and digital printer maker Gretag Imaging

Ocean holds seaside-themed open day for launch

Ocean Digital Printing transformed its Coventry premises and carpark into a beach to celebrate its launch last week