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Sunday 18 March
to Saturday 24 March 2007

Printer Launches Pre-Press Division With New CTP

 User Application Article  Following the installation of a Fujifilm CTP system, packaging and commercial printer B2B1 Print Solutions has launched a pre-press division at its Stockport (UK) site.

News from Fujifilm Graphic Systems (23 March 2007)

Quark Stages European Cities Training Roadshows

Quark is inviting creative personnel to attend free hands-on training classes on QuarkXPress 7 and Quark Interactive Designer in 35 different cities across Europe.

News from Quark Inc (23 March 2007)

Large Format Inkjet Press For Flexible Substrates

Augend Technologies has launched a fully-automatic high-speed large format inkjet press, the Augend F16, for the production of outside advertising material on flexible substrates.

News from Augend Technologies (23 March 2007)

Postal Management Firm Strengthens Management Team

Bristol (UK) postal management and consultancy firm, Onepost, has strengthened its team with the appointment of three new people.

News from ONEPOST (23 March 2007)

Ex-Artwork Systems Director Joins Perfectproof

Perfectproof has appointed what it described as an industry heavyweight with the former Artwork Systems marketing director Tom Peire, who will spearhead sales for France and Italy.

News from PerfectProof Europe NV (23 March 2007)

World Launch Of Thermal Transfer Overprinters

Domino UK will use this year's Total exhibition for the first public showing of its new M-Series print and apply product range.

News from Domino Printing Sciences plc (23 March 2007)

Digital Colour Document Capture And Distribution

EFI has launched Sendme Version 3.5, its product for digital colour document capture, edit and distribution.

News from EFI (23 March 2007)

New Uncoated Text and Cover Paper's Antique Feel

Fenner Paper has supplied a new uncoated text and cover paper called Omnia for the Nougat autumn-winter fashion catalogue.

News from Fenner Paper Company Ltd (23 March 2007)

Baldwin Provides 10 More Printing Scholarships

Baldwin Technology has funded 10 additional scholarships in honour of Harold W Gegenheimer, through PGSF.

News from Baldwin Technology Company Inc (23 March 2007)

Register Guidance System Cuts Print Waste

 User Application Article  Dome Printing in Sacramento, California (USA) has invested in the Quadtech Register Guidance System with Multicam.

News from QuadTech (23 March 2007)

HH's 5-Year Carphone Print Management Deal

 User Application Article  The Carphone Warehouse and HH Print Management have agreed a new five-year, GBP15 million per annum, agreement for marketing print services to the pan-European retail chain.

News from HH Print Management (23 March 2007)

New Digital Print Substrate's Textile Feel

Freudenberg Evolon will be marking its premier appearance at FESPA 2007 with the introduction of Evolon, a new media designed for indoor and outdoor printing applications.

News from Freudenberg Evolon (23 March 2007)

Floor Graphics Provide Clear Directions

 User Application Article  Patients and visitors at the new eye unit at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford (UK) are able to find their way around thanks to the floor graphics system from MacDermid Autotype.  Brochure Available 

News from MacDermid Autotype (22 March 2007)

Welsh Printing Company Hosts Environmental Meeting

Cambrian Printers was identified as environmental pace setters as it hosted the Inside Welsh Industry event.

News from Cambrian Printers (22 March 2007)

Flexible Mailing Systems Increase Productivity

 User Application Article  Bethany College, an undergraduate college in Bethany, West Virginia (USA) was extremely dissatisfied with its mailroom equipment provider, a company it had worked with for 30 years.

News from Neopost (22 March 2007)

Digital Print Firm's Superwide Press Produces Art

 User Application Article  Sheffield (UK) digital print company Pinders has linked up with a Yorkshire artist to produce works of art for two community projects.

News from Pinders (22 March 2007)

Avery Dennison Success With Foils Workshops

Avery Dennison Graphics and Reflective Division is to stage a series of workshops and demonstrations for self-adhesive foils application, dedicated to customers from the middle eastern Europe region.

News from Avery Dennison Polska (22 March 2007)

Printer's GBP100k Buys CTP And Proofing Systems

One of the latest names to emerge on the north west UK print scene has celebrated its first birthday by investing in GBP100,000 worth of new equipment.

News from Red Pepper Print (22 March 2007)

Versatile New Typeface's Outstanding Legibility

Monotype Imaging has introduced the Soho typeface family, a slab serif design created by Sebastian Lester of the company's UK subsidiary.

News from Monotype Imaging Ltd (22 March 2007)

POP Producer Raises Charity Money With A Smile

In-store marketing agency Bezier and Poulters - the integrated agency bought by Bezier last year - have joined forces to help Kimberly-Clark raise money for Comic Relief.

News from Bezier (22 March 2007)

System Aids Mail Pre-Sorting And Postal Discounts

Bowe Bell and Howell has enhanced its Flexisort flats sorter to better facilitate pre-sorting discounts and mail-handling capabilities.

News from Bowe Bell and Howell (22 March 2007)

Output Software Key To Repro Workflow Efficiency

 User Application Article  Swiss repro house Repro Husser wanted to establish the most innovative repro central in terms of productivity and quality.

News from Ratio Entwicklungen GmbH (22 March 2007)

Printing Firm Spends GBP100k On 'Green' Platemaker

Harrogate's Platinum Print has made a GBP100,000 investment in a new environmentally-friendly platemaker.

News from Platinum Print Ltd (22 March 2007)

Low Ink Consumption Inkjet Printer Goes On Show

New coding and marking products will be launched at the Total Processing and Packaging exhibition in the UK by Euromark Coding and Marking and its associate, Vespalase.

News from Euromark Coding and Marking (21 March 2007)

Northprint 07 Show Marks Debut For Turning Point

Following the acquisition of Turning Point Technologies (TPT) and NCS Integrated Solutions to form Turning Point, the new company will make its debut at Northprint 07 from April 24 - 26 on stand C350.

News from Turning Point (21 March 2007)

Monotype Joins Fight Against Unlicensed Fonts

Monotype Imaging has joined the Business Software Alliance as a worldwide member educating organisations on font licensing and compliance.

News from Monotype Imaging Ltd (21 March 2007)

Paper Company Offers View Of Its Forest Operations

Paper company UPM's new web site is said to take users on a walk through the forest whilst they sit in front of their computers.

News from UPM-Kymmene Corporation (21 March 2007)

Laser Marking System's 1,200 Characters Per Second

As the complement to Alltec's 30 watt laser marker, the Alltec LC300, the new 10 watt laser system Alltec LC100 comes with similar features with less power input.

News from Alltec GmbH Laser Business Unit (21 March 2007)

EFI Spends US$3.5m To Move In To Textile Print

EFI and Kornit Digital have announced a partnership to address the growing demands of the printed textile industry as it migrates from analogue to digital printing technologies.

News from EFI (21 March 2007)

Inkjet Personalisation Firm Bids For Major Award

Safe ID Solutions has been named a finalist of Red Herring 100 Europe, an award given to the top 100 private technology companies based in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region each year.

News from Safe ID Solutions AG (21 March 2007)

Finance Company Helps Kall Kwik, Prontaprint Sale

Less than a year after London corporate finance company Livingstone Guarantee arranged a deal that allowed the Adare management team to buy their business, the firm has teamed up to assist them again.

News from Livingstone Guarantee (21 March 2007)

Welsh Print Firm's GBP3m Spend On New Machinery

The start of 2007 has seen the completion of the latest round of investment by Tonypandy (Wales) company HSW Print amounting to GBP3million.

News from HSW Print Ltd (21 March 2007)

Digital Asset Management Software Update Release

Extensis has released an update to Portfolio 8.1, the digital asset management (DAM) software for creative professionals.

News from Extensis Products Group (21 March 2007)

Web Press's 43,500cph At Quebecor Magazine Plant

 User Application Article  Now in full production is the first high-speed KBA Compacta 818 72 page commercial web press installed by Quebecor World at its Corby, Northamptonshire (UK) site.

News from KBA (21 March 2007)

Management Information System For Estonian Printer

 User Application Article  Quality, speed, creativity, and reliability are the priorities of Estonian printing company AS Iloprint, which is why it opted for the Hiflex Management Information System (MIS) and JDF.

News from Hiflex GmbH (21 March 2007)

Label Producer Moves Away From Microsoft Systems

Mercian Labels has commenced its migration away from Microsoft to Open Source software because of reliability and upgrade cost concerns.

News from Mercian Labels (20 March 2007)

New Software Launch For Carton Production

Esko will introduce new ArtiosCAD 7.1 features, for the production of carton and corrugated boxes, at the FEFCO Technical Seminar in Nice (France) from April 25 - 27.

News from EskoArtwork (20 March 2007)

Web Presses To Secure Bigger Market Share In China

Goss International will present its product portfolio at Print China 2007 from April 10 - 14.

News from Goss International (20 March 2007)

Printer Produces The Sun's Tribute Publication

Southernprint has printed a glossy 'bookazine' tribute to mark Peter Seabrook's 30 years as gardening editor of The Sun newspaper in the UK.

News from Southernprint (20 March 2007)

New Fanfolding System For Fast Digital Printers

For the first time worldwide, Lasermax Roll Systems showed its newly-available LX590 Folder in-line bulk fanfolding system for high-speed digital printers.

News from Lasermax Roll Systems (20 March 2007)

Films Producer Improves Product Information Access

Intelicoat's website has been redesigned to provide information through a clearly designed and user-friendly interface, said the company.

News from InteliCoat Technologies (20 March 2007)

Packaging Production Software Makes Mark In Gulf

Esko will be participating in the Gulf Pack packaging exhibition, where it will be demonstrating its packaging software suite.

News from EskoArtwork (20 March 2007)

Self-Service Print Management System Launch

Freeprintmanagement.com is a new self-service print management tool developed by Bicester-based Webmart.

News from Webmart (20 March 2007)

Print and Cut Systems For High Volume Production

Roland DG (UK) said it is gearing up for the Sign UK exhibition where it will demonstrate its array of current products, as well as unveiling a new range of wide format printing systems.

News from Roland DG (UK) Ltd (20 March 2007)

Spanish Exhibition Success For Packaging Software

Esko reported strong sales activity that exceeded the company's expectations at the Graphispag 2007 exhibition in Barcelona (Spain).

News from EskoArtwork (20 March 2007)

Print Group's Brochures Helps Holiday Firm Growth

 User Application Article  Print and design company The 5 Core Group has completed the printing of an exotic range of travel brochures for premium travel company, Western and Oriental Travel.

News from 5 Core Group Limited (20 March 2007)

New Centre Supports KBA's Growing US Market

KBA North America has opened a 20,000 square foot facility known as the new Dallas Parts and Service Centre in Grapevine, Texas (USA) directly next to the Dallas Fort Worth Airport.

News from KBA North America (20 March 2007)

Label Roll Materials Get New Development Boss

Avery Dennison has promoted Lisa Hubbard to the post of technical director for its Roll Materials Europe division.

News from Avery Dennison Roll Materials Europe (20 March 2007)

US Exhibition And Conference Success

More than 1,100 people attended one or more of the four conferences at the Graphics of the Americas-Xplor US annual international graphic communications exhibition and conference.

News from Xplor International (20 March 2007)

Graphics Of Americas Exhibition Gears Up For 2008

Graphics of the Americas 2008 conference and exhibition visitors and exhibitors can look forward to an event featuring an international audience of printers, dealers and creative professionals.

News from Xplor International (20 March 2007)

Kodak Webinars Explain Value Of Transactional Mail

Kodak said its transpromo expert will educate print providers on the value of the emerging communications system in a series of webinars this year.

News from Kodak's Graphic Communications Group (20 March 2007)

Ex-Smurfit, SCA, Rexam Boss Takes Datalase Chair

Datalase has appointed board member Trevor Bailey to the position of chairman.

News from DataLase (20 March 2007)

Wide Format Printer Wins Product Design Award

Oce has won the International Forum Product Design gold award for its TDS700 wide format printing system.

News from Oce Printing Systems (20 March 2007)

High Volume Label Printer Operates At 10" A Second

Citizen Systems Europe has launched a range of printers that are claimed to have been developed to enable high volumes of labels to be printed, quickly, simply and cost effectively.

News from Citizen Systems Europe (20 March 2007)

Students' Innovative Entry Wins Top PrintIT! Award

The PrintIT! 2007 awards ceremony saw students Sarah Kitching and Emily Webzell of Keswick School, Cumbria awarded the prize as overall winners of PrintIT! 2006/7.

News from Print IT! (20 March 2007)

Flexo Plate Digital Imager For Corrugated Products

Esko has introduced the Cyrel Digital Imager (CDI) Spark 5080, the latest addition to the digital imagers for flexo plates.

News from EskoArtwork (20 March 2007)

Short-Run Colour Digital Press Runs At 36ppm

Xitron has begun distributing its new Prism short-run colour digital press in North America following successful beta and dealer training programmes.

News from Xitron (20 March 2007)

New Gloves Meet Chemical Resistance Standards

Mapa Spontex UK has launched Topchem 345, which is claimed to be the only glove on the market that provides chemical resistance to the 12 chemicals in the EN-374-3 annex.  Brochure Available 

News from Mapa Spontex UK (20 March 2007)

RIP Software Wins Praise At Spanish Exhibition

The latest release of Perfectproof's RIP software, Proofmaster v3.1 was endorsed by four companies that praised its performance.

News from PerfectProof Europe NV (20 March 2007)

Small Firms Grow Three Times As Fast As Big Rivals

A group of lean, fit and relatively small companies are taking the printing industry by storm and showing the bigger businesses how it is done.

News from Plimsoll Publishing Ltd (20 March 2007)

Northprint Runs Interactive Seminars And Workshops

Interactive seminars and special visitor features will be on offer to the visitor to Northprint 07 at the Harrogate Exhibition Centre (UK) from April 24 - 26.

News from Northprint (20 March 2007)

Spray Dampening Eradicates Frequent Press Stops

 User Application Article  Newspaper publisher Zeitungsverlag Krause in Stade (north Germany) has improved the productivity of its KBA Journal Express press by retrofitting Baldwin's Constant C technology.

News from Baldwin Technology Company Inc (20 March 2007)

3,900 Pages Per Hour From Digital Print System

Visitors to Northprint can see a range digital print production systems demonstrated on the Konica Minolta stand at the Northprint 07 exhibition.  Brochure Available 

News from Konica Minolta Business Solutions UK (20 March 2007)

Duplo's New Sales Manager For Eastern England

Duplo International has announced the appointment of Gary Cooper as regional business manager for the east of England.

News from Duplo International (20 March 2007)

Finishing Systems Range For Digital Print Facility

Total Print Finishing Services (Total PFS) has provided a large digital print finishing machinery order with Cats Solutions for its latest digital print systems facility in Truro, Cornwall (UK).

News from Total Print Finishing Services (20 March 2007)

Cutting And Stacking System For Fast Digital Print

The Lasermax Roll Systems R S Stack cutting and stacking system for high-speed digital printers was exhibited for the first time in Europe at the Oce Open House in Poing (Germany).

News from Lasermax Roll Systems (20 March 2007)

Data Analysis Helps Target Company Acquisitions

A new commercial tool is set to transform the way companies go about acquiring other businesses, according to its developers.

News from Plimsoll Publishing Ltd (20 March 2007)

Presstek's New VP And Finance Boss Moves In

Presstek has appointed Jeffrey A Cook as senior vice president and chief financial officer.

News from Presstek Inc (20 March 2007)

Online Forum Discusses Print Imposition Software

Ultimate Technographics is launching an online discussion imposition systems forum for users and distributors of its software products.

News from Ultimate Technographics (19 March 2007)

Paper Handling Vacuum Systems At Northprint 07

PIAB will be exhibiting its vacuum systems in stand B215 at Northprint 2007, from April 24 - 26 in Harrogate (UK).

News from PIAB (19 March 2007)

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