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Toray is to increase its plate production capacity due to projections that waterless plates will make up 10% of the market for litho plates in the future.

Best is adding support for remote proofing to the next generation of its RIPs.

WAM!NET has signed a deal to incorporate Extensisonline pre-flighting system into its file transmission service.

Carlton Barclay will be able to output 7,000 plates a week after installing a Screen PlateRite 8600 CTP system.

Colourlink London, the large-format digital printing firm that was bought out of administrative receivership last year (PrintWeek, 16 November 2001), is looking for 300,000 of funding as it prepares...

Presstek vice president of sales, marketing and customer support Efrem Lieber said the last quarter of 2001 was one of the hardest we have faced after the firm reported a 98% fall in net income for...

Lyson will launch a host of new ink-jet printers, inks and media at Ipex, including the JetPlate CTP system and the Lyson Match Proof proofing line.

Hanway Print Centre has switched the majority of its digital print output to Canon equipment following the installation of an iR110.

Indigo chief executive Benny Landa and William McGlynn, Hewlett-Packards vice president and general manager of digital printing, will be among the keynote speakers at next months On Demand show in...

Cunningham Graphics International (CGI), the financial research printer, is expanding its digital printing capabilities with a 1.75m investment in equipment and a reorganisation of its print centres.

Xaar is focusing on the packaging and converting sector at Ipex. It will show a new greyscale print head designed for packaging, product decoration and security print.

European forest product companies can expect earnings to fall by at least 50% in 2002, according to a new report.

Sappi expects to bring its North American business back into profitability in the second half of the year, the groups AGM has heard.

Friends of the Earth (FoE) has had an encouraging meeting with representatives of Indonesian manufacturer April following its report into the paper firms forest practices, April Fools <i>(PrintWeek,...

Paper and board production fell by around 2.5% last year, according to the preliminary figures for 2001 from the Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPI).