News releases on Printingtalk categorised by date
Sunday 16 May
to Saturday 22 May 2004
Giraffe Stretches Scheduling Ability In Real Time
Giraffe Production Systems has introduced its new Scheduling System v5.0 with the claimed ability to read real-time production data from sensors and controls.
News from Giraffe Production Systems (20 May 2004)
Heidelberg's 800m Euros In Drupa Orders
Only one day before end of Drupa, Heidelberg's chief executive officer, Bernhard Schreier, has expressed his pleasure with progress at the show.
News from Heidelberg (20 May 2004)
KBA Commissions Artist To Paint Drupa Press
Horst Kordes is the artist whose works feature in KBA's calendar for 2004, 'Dreamland', which has been enormously popular among customers worldwide, even winning an award in the USA.
News from KBA (20 May 2004)
KBA's Drupa Sheetfed Sales To Austria And Italy.
At Drupa KBA booked an order from Digigraf, an advertising agency and pre-press studio in Bologna (Italy), for a 74 Karat press with coater and special package for printing plastic.
News from KBA (20 May 2004)
1,000 Jobs To Come As Polestar Chooses Sheffield
The Polestar Group has announced its intention to build its new gravure printing facility in Sheffield.
News from Polestar (20 May 2004)
Wyndeham Invests £1.8m In New Direct Mail Press
Wyndeham Press Group Plc, a UK specialist magazines, commercial literature and direct mail printer has installed a new ?1.8 million press from RDP Marathon at Wyndeham Print Direct.
News from Wyndeham Press Group plc (20 May 2004)
Buckingham Colour Press Extends Digital Offer
User Application Article Buckingham Colour Press (BCP) has bought a Xerox Docucolor iGen3 digital production press in a major investment that is set to expand capacity at its digital division.
News from Xerox (20 May 2004)
Heidelberg Steps Up Print Training In Afghanistan
Heidelberg and the Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) in Kabul have signed an agreement on a joint training concept for skilled personnel in the Afghan print industry.
News from Heidelberg (19 May 2004)
Kall Kwik Marks 25 Years With Business Award Final
Ruislip (UK) based Kall Kwik, the print design and digital specialist, is celebrating its 25th anniversary by its appearance in the finals of a top national business award backed by HSBC Bank.
News from Kall Kwik (19 May 2004)
Chilean Printer Gears-Up With 48pp KBA Compacta
User Application Article Prosa, a subsidiary of Chilean media enterprise Copesa, is expanding the printing capacity at its Santiago plant with a 48pp Compacta 618 from Koenig and Bauer AG (KBA).
News from KBA (19 May 2004)
First Quarter Losses Grow But KBA More Confident
The first quarter figures for Koenig and Bauer (KBA) paled beside its half-time performance at Drupa 2004 as the company has posted a loss in the first quarter of 4.3m Euro loss.
News from KBA (19 May 2004)
Chinese Toy Packer Orders KBA Rapida From Drupa
Hong Kong toy-packaging specialist Morning Sun Offset Printing placed an order at Drupa yesterday for a new-generation Rapida 142.
News from KBA (19 May 2004)
Lithgo Opts For KBA Again With Rapida 74
A devotee of KBA presses for much of its 32 years history, Lithgo Press in Leicester (UK) has ordered a KBA Rapida 74 four colour press plus coater for delivery towards the end of this year.
News from KBA (19 May 2004)
Taylor Bloxham Moves Into Digital With KBA Karat
User Application Article Taylor Bloxham Limited, one of the UK's largest family-owned sheetfed litho printers, is moving into digital with the June installation of a KBA 74 Karat direct imaging press.
News from KBA (19 May 2004)
Investcorp Chief Succeeds Yea In Polestar Chair
The Polestar Group has appointed a new chairman in Thomas Middlehof, head of private equity for Investcorp Europe.
News from Polestar (19 May 2004)
First Dainippon Screen Truepress Sale At Drupa
Dainippon Screen has secured Kemtek Imaging Systems of South Africa as the first worldwide customer for its new generation Truepress 344.
News from Screen Europe (18 May 2004)
Drupa Attendance Shows 12% Decline But Messe Happy
And he's not the only one to feel this way.
News from Drupa Messe Dusseldorf (18 May 2004)
Digital Label Printing From Esko And HP at Drupa
Esko-Graphics has launched a complete printing system, including HP Indigo digital printing presses and Esko-Graphics Scope front-end workflow, for digital label printing and converting.
News from EskoArtwork (18 May 2004)
Global Graphics-HP Extend RIPs To New Indigo 5000
Global Graphics Software has extended its relationship with HP by partnering with it to provide the Harlequin RIP as the standard on-board RIP supplied with every HP Indigo 5000 digital press.
News from Global Graphics Software Ltd (18 May 2004)
Heidelberg Study Into JDF Workflow At Drupa
Heidelberg is using Drupa 2004 to present what is has described as its first future-oriented study of an end-to-end fully integrated JDF workflow with Prinect products.
News from Heidelberg (18 May 2004)
12-Colour SM102 Deal At Drupa For Taylor Bloxham
User Application Article Taylor Bloxham will take delivery of a second 12-colour Heidelberg Speedmaster SM102 in July as part of a £4.2m investment at the Leicester (UK) plant.
News from Heidelberg (18 May 2004)
Imaje UK's Growth Prompts Promotions
Imaje UK's progression towards a £10 million annual turnover target has resulted in UK managing director Mike Hughes being given additional responsibility for Ireland, Belgium and the Netherlands.
News from Imaje UK (18 May 2004)
3 KBA Six-Wide Commanders For Belgian Newspapers
User Application Article Le Soir, one of Belgium's leading newspapers, is to be printed along with a number of other publications on three six-wide KBA Commander presses.
News from KBA (18 May 2004)
New KBA XXL Gravure Press Goes to German Printer
Tiefdruck Schwann-Bagel GmbH and Co has ordered a new KBA TR10B rotogravure press.
News from KBA (18 May 2004)
Polestar's Drupa Gravure Plant Bill Is 40m Euros
Polestar's True North project team has placed orders and signed contracts worth over 40 million Euros at Drupa.
News from Polestar (18 May 2004)
Sensor Stages Web Handling Seminar For Converters
Dr David Roisum of Finishing Technologies and Sensor Products is to present a seminar on web handling and converting on July 14 and 15, 2004 at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina (USA).
News from Sensor Products (18 May 2004)
Bezier's Recycling And Solvent Cuts Win Award
Wakefield (UK) based retail media and in-store print specialist, Bezier, has scooped an award for its help in caring for the environment.
News from Bezier (17 May 2004)
EFI's RIPs And Proofers Get FOGRA Licence
EFI has been granted a licence by FOGRA, the leading developer of printing technology, to integrate its Ugra and Fogra Media Wedge CMYK version 2.0 control strip and all future versions into EFI Rips
News from EFI (17 May 2004)
EFI And Nexpress Collaborate On Print Management
Nexpress Solutions is teaming up with EFI to offer additional workflow and Web-to-print capabilities to users of the Nexpress 2100 digital production colour press.
News from EFI (17 May 2004)
Esko-Graphics Extend Workflow Scope At Drupa
Esko-Graphics has claimed at Drupa that its Scope workflow encompasses a unique suite of pre-production software tools for the commercial print and packaging markets.
News from EskoArtwork (17 May 2004)
Esko's Espresso UV CTP Comes To Boil At Drupa
Esko-Graphics has introduced at Drupa its new Espresso two-up and four-up Computer-to-UV-Plate (CTUP) system, said to be capable of imaging conventional pre-sensitised plates with UV light.
News from EskoArtwork (17 May 2004)
New Packaging Sleeve Tool For Digital Flexo Imager
Esko-Graphics has claimed that it has developed a new concept for mid-web sleeves in connection with its Cyrel Digital Imager (CDI) Compact platesetters.
News from EskoArtwork (17 May 2004)
CTP Plate Loading Eased By Esko-Graphics
Esko-Graphics has launched its CDI Advance semi-automatic plate loading (SAPL) system at Drupa.
News from EskoArtwork (17 May 2004)
Backstage Workflow Takes Centre Stage At Drupa
Esko-Graphics and Real Time Image have announced that Esko-Graphics' Backstage workflow server will now integrate with Real Time Proof online remote proofing.
News from EskoArtwork (17 May 2004)
Horner's Opts For Second Heidelberg Topsetter CTP
User Application Article Horner Brothers is to take a second Heidelberg Topsetter 74 CTP system.
News from Heidelberg (17 May 2004)
'Petty Cash' Polar Cuts Ice With Fulmar
With the words, "I don't consider £95,000 buying - it's petty cash." Fulmar plc's chairman Mike Taylor closed a deal at Drupa to buy a Polar cutting system for the group's White Quill Press.
News from Heidelberg (17 May 2004)
Packaging Group Signs For Heidelberg Folder-Gluers
User Application Article M Y's healthcare division is enjoying considerable success in growing its share of the European pharmaceutical market.
News from Heidelberg (17 May 2004)
4,000-Strong - Drupa Prinect Tours in Great Demand
Heidelberg yesterday has welcomed 4,000 participants and marked the 1,000th Prinect experience tour for its Prinect centre at Drupa.
News from Heidelberg (17 May 2004)
German Printer Orders KBA Compacta In Market Drive
User Application Article German print enterprise B and K Offsetdruck in Ottersweier has ordered a KBA Compacta 217 16-page commercial press as part of a move to grow market share.
News from KBA (17 May 2004)
KBA Seeks More Chinese Karat Press Sales At Drupa
KBA has been negotiating the sales of more presses to one of the biggest users of its sheetfed presses, the Wing Hung Printing Company of China.
News from KBA (17 May 2004)
KBA Converts Spanish Heidelberg House to Rapida
KBA has won a major contract from Grafiques Iberia, a commercial printer in Barcelona.
News from KBA (17 May 2004)
Mtivity 4.0 Low Cost Marketing Material System
Mtivity, the UK developer of web-based marketing resource management (MRM) systems, has announced the availability of a PDF-based artwork system.
News from Mtivity (17 May 2004)
Presstek's Middle East Order For 15 CTPs At Drupa
Presstek announced at Drupa that Reda International Graphic Supply, Presstek's distributor in the Middle East, has placed an order for 15 Dimension computer-to-plate systems.
News from Presstek Inc (17 May 2004)
Presstek's New CTPs Secure 30 Orders In 5 Days
Presstek is introducing two new CTP models for DI presses at Drupa 2004 in association with its press manufacturing partners.
News from Presstek Inc (17 May 2004)
Precisia Gets Charged Up Over Battery Labelling
Precisia LLC, a leading developer of advanced printed electronics technologies, announces its partnership with Thin Battery Technology (TBT) of Cleveland, Ohio, to more efficiently capture the rapidly
News from Precisia LLC (17 May 2004)
Precisia Highlights Its Conductive Inks At Drupa
Precisia LLC is highlighting its conductive inks for high-speed printing processes at Drupa 2004.
News from Precisia LLC (17 May 2004)
Precisia Claims World First In Printed Radio Tags
Precisia LLC has claimed that it is the first company in the world to produce fully functional radio frequency identification (RFID) tags with high-speed printed antennas in one location.
News from Precisia LLC (17 May 2004)
New Flint Ink Division For Conductive Inks
Flint Ink launched its new business, Precisia LLC, in its $ multi-million drive conjunction to be the leading provider of conductive and advanced printing inks, and printed electronics.
News from Precisia LLC (17 May 2004)
Industry Reports Ricoh's Copier Market Leadership
Figures from copier industry analyst Infosource show that Ricoh is dominating the emerging market for colour capable office copiers across Europe.
News from Ricoh UK (17 May 2004)
Picon Rewarded For Support Of UK Print Businesses
Picon, the UK's leading support organisation for suppliers to the printing, publishing, papermaking and paper converting industries, has obtained the green rating for Labelexpo 2003.
News from Picon (17 May 2004)
Komori Restructures European Sales Operations.
Komori has restructured its European subsidiaries to create four sales companies to cover sales to Western Europe, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Brochure Available
News from Komori UK (17 May 2004)
Komori Presses Help Save Children
Many of the Lithrones on Komori's Drupa 2004 stand are helping Save the Children by producing more than 30 print jobs for the charity during the exhibition. Brochure Available
News from Komori UK (17 May 2004)
Komori System 38s Replace Heidelberg And MAN Kit
User Application Article A second System 38SII web press has been installed at Dutch printer TIJL as part of a 10m Euros order with Komori. Brochure Available
News from Komori UK (17 May 2004)
Largest Ever Lithrone Order Commissioned By Komori
User Application Article The final press, in what has been the largest single order ever to be placed in Europe for Komori Lithrone sheet-fed presses, has been commissioned. Brochure Available
News from Komori UK (17 May 2004)
First Duplo 5000 Booklet Maker Sale A Success
User Application Article Rochester-based American company Ry-Gan Printing is the first organisation worldwide to invest in Duplo's System 5000.
News from Duplo International (17 May 2004)
New Komori Chambon Die Cutter At Drupa
Komori-Chambon is exhibiting at Drupa 2004 a new rotary die cutter, which can be installed on web offset rotogravure or flexo presses used for carton production. Brochure Available
News from Komori UK (17 May 2004)
New Indian Distributor For Gimle
Gimle has signed Venus Infotech and awarded the company Gimle's distribution rights in India.
News from Gimle Ltd. (17 May 2004)
Total number of news releases published during the week: 57
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