Print Week articles from January 2003

Print Week archives from January 2003

AGI to shed 50 jobs as Swindon closes.(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... AGI Media Packaging is closing its Swindon site and losing up to 50 jobs, having failed to 'remain viable' after EMI shut its Swindon CD duplication facility in June. The decision is a direct result of EMI consolidating its plant within...

Polestar positive on future outlook.(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Polestar has posted its first retained profit since its inception in 1998, but only thanks to a pounds 95.8m technical surplus from its bond buyback in 2001. Sales in the year to 30 September 2002 fell by 9.5% to pounds 484m, although...

Thomas Potts to quit AIM list.(Alternative Investment Market )(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Thomas Potts is planning to turn its back on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM), saying it is 'gaining very little benefit' from the listing. The loss-making print group will put the proposal to de-list before shareholders at the end...

Montrose jobs go as firm falls.(Montrose Press)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Montrose Press has been placed into administration with the loss of half of its jobs after a creditor of its sister company Hyway Printing services issued a winding-up petition. Managing director Rick Child was among the 40 staff cut by...

STOP PRESS: Inveresk has applied to switch from the UK Listing Authority ..(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Inveresk has applied to switch from the UK Listing Authority to the Alternative Investment Market (AIM), subject to satisfying requirements from 23 January.

STOP PRESS: Scitex has signed an agreement to combine Scitex Vision and Aprion. ..(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Scitex has signed an agreement to combine Scitex Vision and Aprion. Aprion will acquire all the outstanding share capital of Scitex Vision in exchange for shares in Aprion. Scitex will own 65% of Aprion's share capital. It will also provide...

STOP PRESS: Label printer Shore To Shore (STS) ..(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Label printer Shore To Shore (STS) has bought Nottingham-based retail and packaging printer PAT Print. It will continue to operate independently, but will share STS' Nottingham Factory.

STOP PRESS: Polestar account manager John Longbottom ..(awarded in the New Year's Honours List)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Polestar account manager John Longbottom has been awarded in the New Year's Honours List. Captain Longbottom was awarded with an MBE for his service with the Honourable Artillery Company, Territorial Army.

STOP PRESS: This edition of PrintWeek is an abridged version ..
January 6, 2003... This edition of PrintWeek is an abridged version due to the holiday production schedule. Full service will be resumed in our 10 January issue.

Kent Messenger's Dalton dies age 61.(David Dalton)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
January 6, 2003... David Dalton, the Kent Messenger Group production director and former group managing director of HunterPrint, has died, aged 61, after a struggle against cancer. His death came just days before he was due to retire as an executive director...

Apex takes Ryobi on the road.(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Apex Digital Graphics will hold its first roadshow as the UK distributor of Ryobi presses this month. The first of the events, which are in partnership with Morgana Systems, will take place at the Novotel in Nottingham on 14 and 15...

PAA quits CPI over registration.(Paper Agents Association )(Confederation of Paper Industries )(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Plans to establish a single voice representing the UK paper industry have been dealt a blow after the Paper Agents Association (PAA) said it would leave the Confederation of Paper Industries (CPI). The CPI will become the industry's main...

SHORTS: Vertis produced 7,000 Christmas cards ..(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Vertis produced 7,000 Christmas cards for clients and suppliers on its Goebel UV Varicolor press. The cards, which have a die-cut glass of mulled wine on the cover, were then finished on its Beilomatik. The finish included a strip of...

SHORTS: Deltor Communications, the Saltash-based B1 and B2 printer, ..(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Deltor Communications, the Saltash-based B1 and B2 printer, has invested in its first perfect-binding equipment in the shape of a Wohlenberg City 4000 and Sprinter 7009 gatherer, supplied by UK distributor MAN Roland Great Britain. Managing...

SHORTS: South-east London's Copyprint UK has been awarded ..(Investors in People (IIP) accreditation)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... South-east London's Copyprint UK has been awarded Investors in People (IIP) accreditation. IIP assessor Gill Atmeare said the firm used 'uncomplicated, practical ways of demonstrating its commitment to supporting the development of staff'.

SHORTS: Appointment at Encad.(Philip Cullimore to vice president)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Encad, the ink-jet printer developer, has promoted Philip Cullimore to vice president of its Printers and Inks division, based at its head office in San Diego. Martin Birch takes over Cullimore's previous role of European managing director....

SHORTS: Statexcolourprint of Newcastle, ..(named in the Inner City 100)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Statexcolourprint of Newcastle, a former winner of PrintWeek's Printing Company of the Year, has been named in the Inner City 100, joining Nottingham's Phoenix Print Finishing and B Print & Display from Cramlington (PrintWeek, 15 November).

SHORTS: A team from NCS Integrated Solutions ..(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... A team from NCS Integrated Solutions has visited Presstek's headquarters in New Hampshire, USA, on a fact-finding mission for the KBA 46 Karat, which uses Presstek's waterless PEARLdry plates. NCS is a distributor of the 46 Karat and Presstek...

SHORTS: Appointment at QTI.(Quad/Tech, David Barton appointment)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Quad/Tech (QTI), the developer of web press control systems, has named David Barton as its new director of sales. He originally joined the firm in 1986 and developed its international presence over four years as vice president of sales. He then...

Edotech acquires Swiss competitor.(Cominformatic)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Edotech, the Tewkesbury-based transactional print group, has extended its reach into Europe and expanded its data management capabilities with the pounds 6.5m acquisition of Zurich-based competitor Cominformatic. The takeover means that...

Third ST300 up and running at Christy's plant.(Christy's Print Finishers)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Christy's Print Finishers in Bristol has completed its year-long investment programme by becoming the first UK company to operate three Heidelberg ST300 Stitchmasters. During the past 12 months the 40-staff company has installed two Polar...

Smith Anderson in new grab bag deal.(Smith Anderson Packaging receives McDonald's contract)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Smith Anderson Packaging has secured a three-year pounds 12m-plus contract with McDonald's to provide 100%-recycled brown paper 'grab bags'. Managing director Michael Longstaffe said that as a result of the success of the business, the...

Taylowe picks up Polestar honours.(Polestar Taylowe receives Polestar Group awards)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Polestar Taylowe, the Maidenhead-based packaging company, walked away with three major awards at the Polestar Group's inaugural internal Star Awards ceremony. The firm won the Most Improved Company, Managing Director of the Year (Geoff...

Adobe anticipates '03 upturn.(Adobe Systems projects revenue increase)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Adobe Systems expects to produce a better set of results this year after last year's revenues and net income were shy of 2001's figures. In 2002, the company achieved revenues of pounds 728.5m (dollars 1.165bn), down 5% on 2001, while its...

Heidelberg DI kits for schools.(direct imaging)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Hundreds more students will have access to the latest direct imaging (DI) technology with Heidelberg's on-going policy of installing kit at colleges. The company has placed pounds 1.5m of equipment in its latest round of support, either...

LEGAL NOTICES.(print and publishing industries)
January 6, 2003... This information is extracted from the print- and publishing-related notices that appear in the London Gazette. Further information is available from its website at: www.london-gazette.co.uk WINDING-UP PETITIONS Savage Design & Print...

New Year's resolutions.(printing industry executives, New Year's resolutions)
January 6, 2003... Forget that obligatory gym membership, our industry envisages a 2003 spent in the pursuit of more leisure time while rediscovering the joys of profit margins. MARTIN RICKARDS, UK MD Komori Business: My resolution for 2003 is to allow...

PRODUCT PORTFOLIO: Product of the Week - Tudor Common Press.
January 6, 2003... 500 years on and the Common Press is still turning heads. Simon Eccles traces the course of printing history. If you went to print college, then like me you'd probably have been taught that the very first vertical-screw letterpress platen...

PRODUCT PORTFOLIO: Buyers' Guide - Guillotines & materials handling.(Buyers Guide)
January 6, 2003... No longer a luxury, guillotines boast the full range of specifications to cut time and dramatically boost margins. Guillotines and materials handling equipment are hardly the most glamorous pieces of kit, but for a relatively modest...

JO'S HELP LINE: Jo Francis tracks down the solutions to your technical troubles.
January 6, 2003... HEALTH ADVICE Q: I have been looking to expand our small business by tendering for some of the contracts that appear weekly in PrintWeek. So far we have managed to get shortlisted a couple of times, but nothing really exciting yet. What I...

INSITE: www.coloursystems.com.(profile of Colour Systems' web site)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... This is the newly revamped internet base of Colour Systems, the trendy London repro house. Or rather, leading premedia, design, digital management and workflow solutions company as it prefers to be known. That's a rather posh descriptor,...

DIARY DATES.(events calendar)(Brief Article)(Calendar)
January 6, 2003... Printech Publitech International 12-15 January 2003 Dubai, UAE Contact www.ppp-2003.com Graphics of the Americas 24-26 January 2003 Miami, USA Contact www.graphics oftheamericas.com Graphispag 2003 10-16 February...

PRODUCT PORTFOLIO: Tried & Tested - Heidelberg TOK.(machinery profile)
January 6, 2003... The TOK triggers just about every response from affection to mockery, but the Heidelberg icon has now found fame as a nifty envelope overprinter. Heidelberg's TOK used to be one of those machines you either love or loathe. Nowadays the...

PRINT'S PAST: Printing ink.(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Gutenberg is primarily remembered for inventing movable metal type. However, his creation would have been useless without the appropriate inks, and the inks he designed have hardly been bettered since. Ink was an essential part of the...

POST SCRIPT: Wake me up before the train goes past its stop.(passenger train offers 'wake up' badges)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
January 6, 2003... With the yuletide season sillyness now almost a dim and distant memory, it's nice to see that our rail fare money was put to good use over the festive period by certain train operators. First Great Eastern came up with the idea of named...

POST SCRIPT: Who prints that then? - Original Miscellany.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
January 6, 2003... For anyone whose knowledge was found wanting during the annual game of Trivial Pursuit over the festive period, Clays might just have produced just the answer. With its long evenings and shortage of cash, January provides the perfect...

POST SCRIPT: Memory Lane.(printing industry briefs from the past ten years)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... 1 YEAR AGO KBA appointed Malcolm Riddle as technical sales manager for the West Midlands... Europol expected crime relating to the new euro currency to peak in January... Service Graphics completed its buyout of the core Photobition...

POST SCRIPT: PPS.(BPB Paperboard's mill appears on television series )(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... BPB Paperboard's Purfleet mill achieved the ultimate accolade recently when it featured in the final episode of the BBC 2 comedy series I'm Alan Partridge. A disconsolate Partridge watched 14,000 copies of his autobiography, Bouncing Back...

Jarrold faces GPMU balloting over cuts.(Jarrold Printing proposes job cuts)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... The GPMU is to ballot nearly 300 members at Jarrold Printing for industrial action over the firm's proposals to cut 59 jobs and change the terms and conditions of remaining staff (PrintWeek, 6 December). The union notified management at...

MAN Roland puts Charles in charge.(Nick Charles hired as managing director for MAN Roland Great Britain)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... MAN Roland Great Britain has announced the successor to former managing director Keith Gatfield. Nick Charles, 42, joined the Mitcham-based firm this week, having been approached for the job by a recruitment consultant. A newcomer to...

Digital alliance for IIR and Pira.(launch exhibition for printing industries)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Ipex organiser IIR has teamed up with Pira to launch an exhibition alongside Pira's Digital Print World conference. The three-day event will take place at London Olympia from 25-27 November. Alongside the trade show, which will take up...

Staff reshuffle for St Ives web.(St. Ives Laboratories Inc., Jon Roberts hired as general manager, Colin Jackson and Mick Stockley leave company)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... St Ives has made management changes at two of its web plants. Long-serving St Ives Roche general manager Colin Jackson and customer service manager Mick Stockley left the company on Monday (6 January). Jackson has been replaced by Jon...

FoE urges APP paper boycott.(Friends of the Earth urges UK merchants to cease trade with Asia Pulp and Paper Company Ltd.)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Friends of the Earth (FoE) has again called on UK paper merchants to cease trading with Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) after a new report made allegations of human rights abuses by the Indonesian pulp and paper industry. FoE forest campaigner...

STOP PRESS: PGC NTO confirms join.(Print & Graphic Communication to join ProSkills Sector Skills Council)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... The Print & Graphic Communication NTO (PGC NTO) has confirmed that it is likely to join the ProSkills Sector Skills Council.

STOP PRESS: Patersons in consultation.(Patersons Ltd. to make staff redundancies)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Patersons in Tunbridge Wells is in consultation about making 20-30 redundancies among its 94 staff.

STOP PRESS: Drum Digital liquidation.(Drum Digital Ltd. in liquidation)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... London digital printer Drum Digital was put into liquidation on 7 January.

STOP PRESS: Face in discussions.(liquidator Menzies in discussions with Face Creative Services)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Face Creative Services is in discussions with liquidator Menzies.

STOP PRESS: Minolta and Konica merging.(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Minolta and Konica are to merge later this year. Both make digital printing products.

STOP PRESS: GPMU members to vote action.(Graphical Paper and Media Unions members to vote on industrial action)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Around 2,000 GPMU members are to vote on taking industrial action following the breakdown of talks with the employers' organisation representing WH Smith, Menzies, Dawson News and Chester Wholesale News.

STOP PRESS: Vertis promotes.(Sarah Carter hired as Europe marketing director and UK marketing manager)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Vertis has promoted Sarah Carter from marketing manager to UK and Europe marketing director.

STOP PRESS: MPG Group launches Ignition UK.(Ignition UK is multimedia design company)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... MPG Group has launched Ignition UK, a multimedia design agency based in Old Woking.

MAP to the rescue of Montrose staff.(Montrose Press bought by MAP Group, to be administrated by Menzies Corporate Restructuring)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... The remaining 40 jobs at Montrose Press, the Chelmsford-based commercial printer, have been saved after the assets and goodwill of the company were bought out of administration by the MAP Group. Montrose was placed into administration with...

Renaissance trims its UK ops.(Renaissance Mark Inc. sells two non-core UK businesses)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Renaissance Mark, the US-based label company, is selling off two non-core UK businesses. It will concentrate its efforts at Stampiton in Whaley Bridge in the Peak District and Double-S Labels in Bradford after selling Customark and...

Riverview debt plan is a no-go.(Riverview Press)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Riverview Press' company voluntary arrangement has failed before a single payment was made to creditors. Smith & Williamson's proposal, sent out less than three months ago, guaranteed secured creditors pounds 1 in the pounds 1...

KBA UK managing director appointed.(Christian Knapp appointed on Picon Council)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... KBA UK managing director Christian Knapp has been appointed to fill the 12th and final place on the Picon Council. The others on the suppliers' association council are: Tim Webb (Russell Webb) as chairman, Martyn Elmy (Centurfax) as...

SHORTS: Scottish Companies to produce books.(Scotprint and Scan-Hi to produce books for Margaret Little's publishing brand Little Books)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Publisher Margaret Little has chosen three Scottish companies to produce books for her new publishing brand, Little Books, in a six-figure deal. Haddington-based Scotprint - part of the Montgomery Litho Group - QSP Print of Glasgow and repro...

SHORTS: Chadwicks creates laboratory.(Chadwicks creates proofing laboratory in partnership with Sun Chemical)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Chadwicks, the Bury-based lids and closure print specialist, has created a new state-of-the-art proofing laboratory in partnership with ink supplier Sun Chemical as part of a swing to UV flexo printing on polyester substrates.

SHORTS: Gardiner Graphics awarded patent.(Gardiner Graphics Group Ltd. awarded patent for laminating process)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Gardiner Graphics Group has been awarded a patent for its flexible clearfold laminating process.

SHORTS: Kall Kwik to install Speedmaster.(Heidelberg Speedmaster color printer to be installed at Kall Kwik's Crawley center)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Kall Kwik's Crawley centre is to install a five-colour Heidelberg Speedmaster in February, enabling it to provide 24-hour turnaround. Crawley, which operates in conjunction with Kall Kwik Brighton, plans to add two further outlets and serve...

SHORTS: Managing director completes year.(Julie Furber, managing director of De La Rue Tapes and Holographics, beliefs on hologram usage)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... De La Rue Tapes & Holographics managing director Julie Furber has completed her first year in the job, and predicts that the number of banknotes carrying holograms will treble in the next five years following the successful introduction of the...

SHORTS: Kenilworth installs high-speed machine.(Kenilworth Printers installs inserting and mailing machine from KAS Paper Systems)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Kenilworth Printers has installed one of the first high-speed Mailmaster 465HS mailing and inserting machines from KAS Paper Systems. The Bedfordshire operation ordered a Mailmaster 465HS with four insert stations and a sheet feeder folder.

SHORTS: Appointment at Mail Marketing International.(Dave Charlton hired as paper products new product development manager)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Dave Charlton has joined Bristol-based Mail Marketing International as its new product development manager for paper products. He previously worked for various manufacturers including MBO, Hunkeler and Herzog & Heymann.

SHORTS: Newey Print to install Tharstern MIS.(Newey Print to install printing equipment from Tharstern and Heidelberg)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Newey Print in the West Midlands plans to install a Tharstern MIS as part of a pounds 1m spend on new equipment. It will also take delivery of a six-colour Speedmaster 102 and Topsetter B1 platesetter from Heidelberg.

SHORTS: Howitt one of first to install CHP.(installs combined heat and power plant in Sutton-in-Ashfield offset site)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Howitt has become one of the first UK printers to install a combined heat and power plant (CHP) at its pounds 20m web offset site in Sutton-in-Ashfield. It is also looking at a larger CHP unit for its planned gravure plant.

SHORTS: Pupils to design envelopes.(Washington Envelopes donates computer and similar equipment to Usworth School so students can design envelopes)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Pupils at Usworth School in Tyne & Wear will be able to design their own envelopes and see them manufactured at Washington Envelopes thanks to the firm's donation of an Apple Mac G3 computer and other equipment. Washington Envelopes' Keith...

SHORTS: Combined operations considered.('The Financial Times' and 'The Wall Street Journal' may combine distribution and printing operations)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times are believed to be considering combining their printing and distribution operations in a bid to reduce costs.

Harmsworth to phase in IDAB WAMAC installation.(Harmsworth Quays Printing to install Idab Wamac mailroom equipment)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... The world's largest flexo plant, south-east London's Harmsworth Quays Printing (HQP), is to install IDAB WAMAC mailroom equipment as it brings more upgraded KBA Courier press units on-stream. HQP, which prints the Daily Mail, Mail on...

Counterfeiting group attracts NCIS' attention.(National Criminal Intelligence Service )(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... The National Criminal Intelligence Service is taking a 'keen interest' in an alleged euro and sterling banknote counterfeiting ring uncovered by the News Of The World last week. The investigation, lead by famed investigative journalist...

Inveresk gambles its future on votes.(Inveresk PLC may have to sell some of its paper mills)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Inveresk could be forced to sell off one or both of its St Cuthberts or Carrongrove mills, or even be placed into administration or receivership, if its shareholders do not approve a series of final re-capitalisation measures. Chief...

Lenglet ups UK gravure threat with a KBA buy.(Lenglet Imprimeurs invests in a KBA, puts pressure on gravure operations in the UK)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... French print group Lenglet Imprimeurs is set to put more pressure on UK gravure operations with a second 3.68m-wide KBA TR10/B. The firm, based only 90 minutes from the Channel Tunnel, will start installation in February, with production...

Pension debate for Polestar.(Polestar to reveal future pension strategy)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Polestar is expected to reveal its future pension strategy by the end of the month. The group is currently in closed door discussions with its pension trustees. In common with many companies Polestar's pension fund is currently...

Sericol is under new ownership.(sold to Saratoga Partners by Burmah Castrol)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Sericol, the screen printing inks and consumables business, has been sold by Burmah Castrol to New York-based investment company Saratoga Partners for pounds 72m (dollars 115m) in cash and assumed debt. A spokesman for Sericol UK said...

Banks unveil new charges for SMEs.
January 10, 2003... The BPIF and the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) are urging members to shop around for the best banking deals after the big four UK banks were forced to adopt last year's recommendations from the Competition Commission. The...

Keywords, Optionsprint tie up.(Keywords Direct merger with Optionsprint)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Keywords Direct in Southampton has merged with Guildford-based Optionsprint to create a pounds 3m-turnover specialist mailing and polywrapping company. The merged company will operate within FT Holdings, which also owns Forms Technology...

Minerva sets a social agenda.(Minerva Craft Screen Printers providing training and employment for the learning disabled)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Minerva Craft Screen Printers in Hexham is among the first wave of 'social firms' to be established, providing training and employment for adults with learning difficulties. Run like a co-operative, Minerva is now expanding the niche...

Holidays copies produced.(Mirror Colour Print's new newspaper travel section)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Mirror Colour Print's sites at Watford, Oldham and Glasgow produced just under 2m copies of The Sunday Mirror's new 24pp full-colour travel supplement, Holidays. The section, which is produced on a newsprint stock, was introduced to the...

Dubbins to talk at Web Offset forum.(GPMU general secretary Tony Dubbins)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... GPMU general secretary Tony Dubbins is among a high-calibre line-up of speakers at this March's Pira Web Offset 2003 conference. Dubbins will tackle the industry's most contentious issue, training, examining the link between productivity...

Over-reliance on clients a risk.(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Printers are relying too heavily on a small number of clients, according to insolvency practice Begbies Traynor. And it warns that while 2003 ought to be a happier year for some in the industry, there is no room for complacency. 'There is...

Unwin raises colour capacity.(Unwin Brothers invests in Heidelberg color printer)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Unwin Brothers hopes to increase productivity by 20% with a pounds 1.5m Heidelberg Speedmaster SM102-8P eight-colour perfector. A 10-colour Heidelberg may also be on the way as early as 2004, according to Unwin managing director Mike...

Legal Notices.(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... This information is extracted from the print- and publishing-related notices that appear in the London Gazette. Further information is available from its website at: www.london-gazette.co.uk Winding-up Petitions Print Ink (UK) Ltd RO:...

DCC to add rival to WAM!NET and Vio.(Digital Courier Company Ltd.'s file transfer software product information)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... A new firm aiming to compete with WAM!NET and Vio is bringing a file transfer system to the UK and Europe. The developer, Beehive Software, claims it is the most widely used standards-based file transfer software in the graphic arts...

Dalim imposition range push.(Dalim expands range of printing packages offered)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Dalim has expanded the range of imposition packages that can be used with its Twist and Swing workflows to include Ultimate Technographics' Impostrip range. Using Impostrip's Impostrip Solo and Impress products Dalim users can carry out...

InDesign picks up in curricula.(Adobe Systems Inc.'s software being used by colleges worldwide)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Adobe claims that the adoption of its InDesign software is increasing among art, design and communications colleges worldwide. More than 100 colleges in North America, 250 in Europe and 75 in Japan used InDesign in their curricula, it...

Creo strengthens sales team with recruits.(Creo hires Stephen Heaton as workflow and applications specialist and Phil Walsh as sales executive)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2003... Creo has strengthened its sales team with two recruits. Phil Walsh joins as sales executive with responsibility for north London and eastern counties. He was formerly pre-press manager at Hendy Banks City Print. Creo has also named Stephen...