Plates

Staff at Agfa Graphics’ plate production facility are due to stage a 48-hour strike over a pay dispute.

Agfa Graphics will launch its new N95-VCF chemistry-free violet offset plate next month.

Sales at Agfa’s Graphics division have been boosted by the new wide-format inkjet products launched earlier this year.

Core Image has upgraded its CTP by switching from a visible light Heidelberg Prosetter to a thermal Suprasetter A52.

Adverse currency fluctuations hit Q2 sales figures at Kodak, but the firm reported significant growth in sales of key graphics arts products and also reduced its losses.

Kodak installed another five Kodak Prosper presses in its first quarter, and has a further five orders for the high-speed inkjet system in the pipeline.

Kodak’s Sonora processless plate business grew by 212% year-on-year and the company is set to add 15 million square metres of manufacturing capacity for the plate in 2015.

Commercial printer On Demand has signed a five-year contract for Agfa’s new Azura TE direct-on-press plate in an agreement that also includes a new Avalon N4 platesetter.

Kodak chief Jeff Clarke is implementing a new business structure that will result in the departure of one long-serving executive at the business, as well as promotions for two familiar names in the...

“Solid growth” in its printing plates and CTP business has helped propel Kodak to its first profit since emerging from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, although the results were also boosted by a...

Kodak believes the adoption of processless plates is reaching a tipping point akin to that experienced with the adoption of CTP – and is citing potential savings for users running into tens of...

Prepress Services is bringing a new range of B2 and B1 thermal CTP systems to the UK.