News releases on Printingtalk categorised by date
Sunday 18 December
to Saturday 24 December 2005
GBP0.25m Orders Finish Year On High Note
Duplo International has ended 2005 on a high, following recent successes at the Digital Print World 2005 (DPW) exhibition and its Leeds open house event.
News from Duplo International (23 December 2005)
Colour Control Ensures Automatic Start-Ups
Only six weeks after the start-up of its new Lithoman 80 press, German printer J Fink Druckerei has ordered two more Densiweb systems for its existing Lithoman 48 and 64 presses.
News from Grafikontrol SpA (23 December 2005)
Konica Minolta Acquires Workflow Software Company
Konica Minolta Business Solutions has acquired the majority of the Dots Software shares. Brochure Available
News from Konica Minolta Business Solutions UK (22 December 2005)
Jaws PDF Creator To Be Re-Badged In Japan
Global Graphics has signed a further contract with Justsystem Corporation, which will supply private label versions of Global Graphics products.
News from Global Graphics Software Ltd (22 December 2005)
Picon Extends Marketing With New Appointment
Picon has extended its marketing department with the appointment of Sally McDonald as communications executive based at its Godalming office.
News from Picon (22 December 2005)
Kodak And Danka Extend Digimaster - Nexpress Deal
Eastman Kodak Company and Danka Office Imaging have expanded their long standing sales alliance to increase sales and market penetration of Kodak's digital presses.
News from Kodak's Graphic Communications Group (22 December 2005)
Anilox Roll Manufacturer's School Donation
In keeping with its dedication to flexo education, global anilox supplier Harper Corporation has donated five Platinum XVR anilox rolls to Kewaunee High School in Kewaunee, Wisconsin (USA).
News from Harper Corporation of America (22 December 2005)
Bureaucracy Costs UK Firms GBP33,000
Unravelling the growing knot of legislative red tape could be costing UK companies an average of over GBP33,000 per year each.
News from Picon (22 December 2005)
Longest Speedmaster Speeds Packaging Productivity
Since mid-2005, the longest Speedmaster CD 74 press from Heidelberg, measuring 21 metres, has been used by French packaging printshop Alliora.
News from Heidelberg (22 December 2005)
Unattended CTP System With Autoloader
Screen Europe has increased the flexibility and productivity of its Platerite Ultima 16000 CTP series with the introduction of a new multi-cassette autoloader.
News from Screen Europe (22 December 2005)
Driving Sales Of 3D Domed Labelling Concept
Specialist label producer GSM Graphic Arts has appointed Peter Young as operations manager to oversee production of the company's metal, glass and acrylic labels.
News from GSM Graphic Arts Ltd (22 December 2005)
New Managers Join Polestar's Print Management
Following recent contract wins and building on a successful year across its technology and print management services, Polestar Applied Solutions has appointed two new managers.
News from Polestar (21 December 2005)
Ink Name Register Avoids Conflicting Brands
The British Coatings Federation's (BCF) Printing Ink Product Name Register enables printing ink companies to determine whether intended product names conflict with those already in use.
News from British Coatings Federation (BCF) (21 December 2005)
PrintIT Boss Goes Back To Old School
Thirty-three years after leaving the Sir John Leman School and embarking on a successful career in printing, local 'boy' Martyn Elmy returned to the school as chairman of PrintIT!.
News from Print IT! (21 December 2005)
Turnkey CTP System Without Consumable Contracts
RIPit will showcase an array of what it described as an affordable, high-quality computer to plate (CTP) and RIP workflow systems at the Graphics of the Americas.
News from RIPit (21 December 2005)
Software Tackles Growing Cheque Fraud Problem
With the tills ringing out in the run up to Christmas, fraudsters deterred from targeting credit cards due to the chip and pin revolution may instead return their attention to the traditional cheque.
News from Tall Security Print Ltd (21 December 2005)
Sun's Installs First Digital Printer At Pack Firm
Sun Chemical Digital, a newly created division of Sun Chemical, has installed its first digital high-speed printer for corrugated packaging at Jardin Corrugated Cases in Ely (UK).
News from Sun Chemical Europe (21 December 2005)
Software Cailbrates Digital Proofing Consistently
User Application Article Quart de Pouce, a pre-press firm, currently uses GMG Colorproof systems and benefits from the advantages that the colour management software provides.
News from GMG GmbH and Co. KG (21 December 2005)
Digital Pritner's Colour Transforms Statements
User Application Article Fenske Media Corporation has installed a Kodak Versamark VX5000 printing system.
News from Kodak's Graphic Communications Group (21 December 2005)
Creaser Reaches 5.5 Million Throughput In A Year
User Application Article A high speed Pit Stop creaser from Encore Machinery has just completed creasing and scoring 5.5 million sheets in only one year.
News from Encore Machinery (19 December 2005)
Photo-Realistic Dry-Offset Printing On Containers
RPC Bebo Nederland has achieved what it described as a breakthrough in the dry-offset printing of containers for spreads, fats and edible oils. Brochure Available
News from RPC Containers (19 December 2005)
UK's First Digital Print Collaboration Centre Open
The UK's first Centre for Industrial Collaboration (CIC) in Digital Printing has been established at the University of Leeds.
News from Leeds University Digital CIC (19 December 2005)
Sun Chemical Makes PrintIT Sponsors Top 20
Sun Chemical is the latest major company in the graphics industry to enlist as a key sponsor of PrintIT.
News from Print IT! (19 December 2005)
Adobe Plug-In Embeds Transparency Features
Positive Focus, the UK distributor for the XMPie range of personalisation software, has launched version 2.5 of uDirect Standard and uDirect Professional.
News from Positive Focus (19 December 2005)
Pindar's Catalogue And Mail Order Supplier Award
Pindar Graphics has won the supplier of the year award at this year's ECMOD's award dinner.
News from Pindar (19 December 2005)
Konica Minolta Wins Users Mono And Colour Awards
Konica Minolta has won the BERTL (Business Equipment Research and Test Laboratories) platinum award for colour productivity in the BERTL Readers' Choice Awards for 2005. Brochure Available
News from Konica Minolta Business Solutions UK (19 December 2005)
Pitstop Buyers Can Learn All PDF Techniques
PDF users can learn the basics and more advanced features of the Pitstop Professional PDF plug-in because of a new offer from Enfocus Software.
News from EnFocus Software NV (19 December 2005)
KBA Colora Press Destined For Berliner Production
Schenkelberg Stiftung and Co, one of the leading printing companies in North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) has ordered a double-width Colora newspaper press from Koenig and Bauer (KBA).
News from KBA (19 December 2005)
Compacta Web Press Gives 40% Production Boost
Following Slovakia's accession to the European Union, Slovenska Grafia in Bratislava is raising its profile with a 72-page KBA Compacta 818 commercial web offset press.
News from KBA (19 December 2005)
Mailing System Can Produce 250 Letters Per Minute
Neopost, the provider of mailing, addressing, document handling and mail management systems, has launched its IJ 110 mailing system.
News from Neopost (19 December 2005)
100th Flexo Press Sold In Just Four Years
The Alpha compact flexopress from Edale has now passed the 100 unit sales mark.
News from Edale (19 December 2005)
Ink Formulation System Helps Achieve Lower Ink Use
Certified GreatgMacbeth partner Colourtools.com is offering a GretagMacbeth Ink Formulation System Pro 5 at a 50 per cent discount.
News from Colourtools.com (19 December 2005)
Graphic Servers Get Boost From New Technology
Silicon Systems has adopted IBM's eServer xSeries range to complement its server systems to provide an alternative to more traditional graphic servers.
News from Silicon Systems (19 December 2005)
Software Gives Correct Text Transfer Between Files
Software is now available to ensure that text transfers correctly between electronic files during artwork creation and editing of text documents.
News from DVS Quality Solutions (19 December 2005)
New Print Group Emerges From Quebecor MBO
Quebecor World and the newly-formed Matlet Group have completed the acquisition of five of Quebecor's US facilities in a management buy-out.
News from Quebecor World (19 December 2005)
Firm Is First With On-Demand Digital Label Press
Label Art, the Tallaght (Ireland) self-adhesive label manufacturer, has installed the country's first digital label press, an HP Indigo ws4050 press.
News from Label Art (19 December 2005)
Pre-Flighting Conversion Tool Now Available
Markzware has released its latest conversion tool, for Q2ID (QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign). Brochure Available
News from Markzware Europe (19 December 2005)
Inkjet Printheads Provide Wide Format Performance
Eurotech Printers in Istanbul (Turkey) has launched a new range of wide format printers to the European graphic arts market, using Xaar's XJ500 binary printheads.
News from Xaar (19 December 2005)
Static Elimination Is Effective At All Web Speeds
With over 3,000 visitors from 56 countries, the ICE international converting show in Munich (Germany) was a success, claimed Meech Static Eliminators. Brochure Available
News from Meech International (19 December 2005)
Versamark UV Printer's Mailing Systems Reseller
Kodak has reached a reseller agreement with Secap, a Philadelphia (USA) supplier of mail stream management systems, to resell the Kodak Versamark DS4350 UV printing system.
News from Kodak's Graphic Communications Group (19 December 2005)
Total number of news releases published during the week: 40
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