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Micro Matic has bought its first roll-fed Mimaki CJV30-100 printer. The 40in four-colour solvent printer/cutter prints at up to 17.3m2 per hour on substrates less than 1mm thick. Micro Matic [...]

Epson has introduced two additions to its Stylus Pro range of wide-format inkjet printers, with the launch of the Stylus Pro 7700 and the Stylus Pro 9700. The 24in and [...]

Canon has scooped a 'Pick' award for its imagePrograf iPF755 large-format printer from Buyers' Lab Inc (BLI). The wide-format machine picked up the accolade in the Outstanding Wide-Format Colour Inkjet [...]

Type has human qualities and this is reflected in the vocabulary that printers use to describe the parts of a printing letter. Although there is no definitive vocabulary as such, [...]

Processless plate specialist VIM Technologies is set to become the latest entrant to the inkjet-based CTP market following the commercial launch of its JT Direct Inkjet Plate next month. Israel-based [...]

When a RIP interprets a file format natively, the file is not converted into another format for printing. The advantage of this is that there are no conversion steps that [...]

Russell Smith, managing director at Tops Design and Print, has brought all his pharmaceutical work in-house with this reliable high-speed folder. - What does the machine do? The MB CAS [...]

Pre-media and inkjet manufacturer EFI has recorded a significant drop in both revenue and pre-tax income in its first-quarter results. Turnover at the US-based company fell dollars 11.2m (pounds 5.7m) [...]

Karen Charlesworth discovers that these wide-format hybrid printers, little-known in the UK, offer high-quality flexibility. The name of Spuhl will be unfamiliar to many UK printers, despite there being three [...]

In offset lithography the dampening system transfers a water based solution to the printing plate as a way to make the non-image areas of the plate ink repellent. Isopropyl alcohol [...]

SPS Group's pre-press manager, Mike Rose, can achieve colour consistency across litho, screen and digital print with GMG's standardising software. - What does it do? It standardises and automates colour [...]

Security printers have always known that highly accurate sheet counting is vital to their business. Now, as the costs of print production increase, so the commercial print industry is learning [...]

This space-saving, four-clamp machine takes in-house perfect binding to a new level, says Karen Charlesworth. In the late 1990s, a number of printers brought their adhesive binding in-house. Many started [...]

Epson has claimed that its next generation inkjet printhead will have the world's highest resolution, with a native nozzle density of 360dpi. The development uses Epson's micro piezo technology and [...]

Web is trying to take on gravure with waste reduction and quicker and wider machines, but the key is versatility, writes Lisa Berwin. 'We are still printing catalogue runs of [...]

Ideal for point-of-sale and signage work, Inca's first flatbed is still turning heads five years after its launch, discovers Lisa Berwin. Inca Digital's first flatbed printer, the Eagle 44 broke [...]

Renaddress has supplied multi-media ad-dressing and polywrapping kit to Hewlett-Packard. The Rena DJP 620 digital inkjet address printer offers auto printhead repositioning and cleaning, as well as adaptability from two [...]

Print's Past readers will remember last week's story about the 19th century American who ran his press using a car engine. Well, I am pleased to say we Brits can [...]

EFI is set to launch the first of a new high-end generation of Vutek UV-curing wide-format printers next month. The Californian firm said its seven-colour flatbed QS2000 printer is the [...]

The Blue Printing Company is actively seeking to buy another printer as it continues to fill capacity at its Hackney factory. Blue managing director Paul Mursell said the firm is [...]

Lord Mancroft once memorably remarked that 'Cricket is a game which the British, not being a spiritual people, had to invent in order to have some concept of eternity'. Printing [...]

Since their Ipex debut, Komori's latest B2 presses are proving popular for their fast makeready and green credentials. The fact that four-up commercial sheetfed is a highly competitive market sector [...]

FWB Printing has installed a Heidelberg Eurobind 500 and brought perfect binding in-house for the first time. The investment came after one of the firm's customers, a publisher of agricultural [...]

Newcastle-based Opus 21 Digital has installed an HP Indigo ws2000, which is the start-up firm's first major investment. The company specialises in short-run mock-ups for the labels and packaging sectors [...]

Dumfriesshire Newspapers has installed an Epson Stylus Pro 9400 wide-format printer. The firm bought the kit from Epson reseller PP Systems and will be used to provide full-page proofs onto [...]

Konica Minolta's much-heralded digital colour machine is to be made commercially available from October and will be exhibited at Digital Print World. The wraps came off the Bizhub Pro C6500 [...]

Hobbs the Printers has completed its conversion to violet CTP with the installation of a second Fuji Luxel platesetter. The family-run business installed its first Luxel Vx-9600 last year and [...]

Adhering to ISO colour management standards can add pounds to your bottom line and ensure that your colour never misses the bullseye, writes Scott Morris. Print consistency is the tangible [...]

Brightsea Press has invested pounds 250,000 with Heidelberg, part of a finishing kit upgrade to make the firm's production facilities fully JDF compliant. The Exeter-based commercial printer has bought a [...]

Mutoh's latest addition to its super wide-format range of printers is now available in the UK through distributor ArtSystems. The company will offer the Mutoh Osprey 75 printer alongside the [...]

Oce has been awarded the Blue Angel environmental certificate for its VarioPrint range of printers. The VarioPrint 1055, 1065, 1075, 2062 and 2075 have all been given the award. It [...]

Large-format digital printer developers have upped the ante with products that combine speed and quality. The display industry continues to turn away from screen printing to wide and superwide-format ink-jets [...]

Howitt Digital is to install Encore Machinery's Pit Stop Digital Creaser with online MB SRA3 folder. The company specialises in four-colour, high personalisation direct mail with digital variable printing. 'We [...]

Alderson Brothers Print Group has ordered two Goss M-600 presses for its new web facility in West Molesey. The presses are part of a pounds 10m investment. The first press [...]

The quality of design and print means there is still demand for British exports, says Joanne Gardner. Although the value of UK exported print fell for the first time last [...]

One of the most common printing press complaints is about unstable ink-water balance resulting in colour change or variation over a sheet. Typically, a printer may find the inking rollers [...]

iTi, imaging Technology international, has launched what it claims is the first ink-jet printing system providing user control over printing and curing when developing ink-jet-based processes. XY Materials Deposition System [...]

Global Graphics is offering next-generation initiatives on XPS technology for digital printer and copier makers, and commercial print workflows. XPS is the new print and document format for the upcoming [...]

The packaging supply chain is competitive enough, but the pressure of rising energy and material costs could result in more casualties within the sector, reports Des King. The worldwide packaging [...]

Kodak has launched a new entry-level ink-jet system in its Versamark VT3000 range at the AIIM On-Demand Expo in Philadelphia. The 75m per minute system boasts throughput speeds of up [...]

From John Bull sets to Xerox DocuColors, the internet is awash with print miscellanea. Paul Simpson scours the sites and finds some curious deals. Apart from a tax rebate and [...]

Having assessed developments pre- and post-Ipex, I will take this opportunity to summarise the situation in the CTP market. First, however, I'll comment on recent plate price rises. Prices for [...]

Roland has introduced a new family of rollfed printers that it claims represents a vast productivity gain on its last series. The Japanese firm describes the SolJet Pro III XC-540 [...]

Philip Chadwick tracks down the solutions to your technical troubles. Q: I'm looking for someone to print a two-colour design onto sheets of Poroflash satin finish aluminium. The job entails [...]

Henry Ling is to become the first UK printer to install Oce's VarioStream 9230. The academic journal and book printer will start production on the VarioStream in July. Head of [...]

More than 350 items from Walsall Print went under the hammer in one of the UK's largest print auctions, with the lots notching up over pounds 1.5m. An eight-colour Nilpeter [...]

The advent of inexpensive DTP systems made a designer out of the everyman, and typography became debased. But it seems there have always been customers who have known more about [...]

Videojet has launched the 4210 ink-jet addressing system, which can print addresses, personalised messages, bar-codes and serialised numbers. The company has also unveiled the Videojet 3320, which it claims is [...]

A new venture, Printlots, has been set up to help printers sell excess stock and old equipment. 'Every printer has got excess stock that it needs to get rid of, [...]

Leeds-based Resource Print Solutions is the first company to buy an Oce VarioPrint 6250, signing the deal at Ipex. The move adds to the firm's Oce range after it bought [...]