MCSi Mitsubishi Corporations long-serving plate product manager Paul Rudman has joined the technical specialist team at Printing Techniques.

Rudman, who worked for MCSi for 14 years, will co-ordinate customer support for all Printing Techniques plate products.

"Printing Techniques is a consumer-minded company, with good products and a good team," he said.

MCSi managing director Jo Simons said that Rudman had "worked hard" during his time with the firm but had elected to leave "at a point in time when Mitsubishi was making a 6m investment in UK infrastructure."

Northampton-based Printing Techniques is the sole UK distributor of Agfas photopolymer CTP plates, and also sells the Agfa P970/P971 thermal range, which has become commercially available. "Customers are starting to get more choice and thats a good thing," said Rudman.

Story by Fay Schopen