Materials

Gravure inks, in comparison to offset inks, are a lot less viscous. The gravure printing process requires liquid ink, which fills the cells of the printing cylinders at a high speed. To keep the...

Arets Graphics is to further expand its sales team with the appointment of Adrian Taylor as technical sales representative.

Three former Sun Chemical employees, including former Sun Chemical Gibbon managing director Graham Frost, have set up their own inks and coatings venture, Inks Coating European (ICE).

Wyndeham Grange factory co-ordinator Andy Walker loves the forgiving nature and lack of waste produced by this vegetable-based ink process

Sun Chemical has launched Metal-Eco; the worlds first vegetable oil-based sheetfed offset metallic inks.

Printers are facing another round of paper price increases of up to 8% in the coming weeks as mills attempt to pass on escalating costs in electricity and gas.

FWB Printing has upgraded its cutting and moved to chemistry-free platemaking, with a Heidelberg Suprasetter A74 and Saphira plates, at its Wincanton, Somerset base.

Fujifilm Sericol has become the latest supplier to announce price increases, with rises of up to 6% for its screen inks and screen-making products.

Scottish firm Compass Print has invested in a new Screen 4300S platesetter, with a 100-plate autoloader, as part of a pre-press upgrade with Litho Supplies.

Agfa Graphics sold more than 50 platesetters at last months Graphispag 2007 pre-press and printing exhibition in Barcelona, exceeding its own pre-show targets.

Leeds-based display printer XPO Innovate is hoping to improve the green credentials of large-format print by testing a prototype point-of-sale (PoS) substrate made entirely of recyclable plastics.

Denmaur Papers Tops2 paper management system has been contracted by magazine publisher Reed Business Information (RBI) to manage its web-offset paper requirements.