Printing World articles from April 2003

Printing World archives from April 2003

Cradley changes focus for profit.(Cradley Print)
April 7, 2003... Cradley Print is aiming to avoid becoming `just another printer' as it moves away from work which fails to contribute to its bottom line. In a year of transition, the west midlands company has reported a pre- tax loss of #1.19m, up from a...

Buxton picks KBA.(Buxton Press)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Buxton Press is adding a KBA Rapida 105 8-unit 4/4 press to its existing Rapida 105 10-unit 5/5 perfector and 8-unit 4/4 as part of a strategy to increase its turnover by 50% in the next three years using long perfectors. Once the press is...

MPG profits rise 40%.(Martins Print Group)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Martins Print Group has announced a 40% rise in profits in 2002 to #974,000, despite a 2.7% drop in turnover to #18.5m. Since 2000 profits have risen 80%. MPG installed a new eight-colour Speedmaster at its Unwin Brothers plant in Woking...

IDG buys screen firm.(Imagedate group buys GK Serigraphics)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Imagedata group has bought Leeds screenprinter GK Serigraphics for an undisclosed sum, extending the services it can offer retail customers as GK is involved in point of sale and instore display printing. It increases the size of the group to...

London change.(London Digital Printing Group is now London Digital)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... London Digital is the new name for London Digital Printing Group following the installation of an Indigo Ultrastream. The press will handle a growing demand for 1-2-1 marketing material, backed by mailing facilities. The company also has a...

Moll emerges.(Ryegold Moll established)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Ryegold Moll, a Welwyn Garden City company, has been set up by Colin Johnson to service folders from the collapsed Moll Group, which brought about the liquidation of its UK subsidiary. Mr Johnson was managing director of that operation and says...

Woodford puts #4.5m more capacity into web.(Woodford Litho)
April 7, 2003... Woodford Litho, Witham, is doubling its capacity with a #4.5m spend on a KBA Compacta C618 four-unit 48pp press. It is a breakthrough for the German manufacturer which has struggled to sell web presses in the UK while sheetfed sales have...

Quark goes Global.(enhancement to Quark XPress)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... UK software is to be an integral part of the new version of Quark XPress which Quark says will also run as a native OSX application, something that users have been eager for. Quark has bowed to criticism that the leading page creation...

Jarrold nears breakthrough agreement.(with workforce)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Jarrold has reached an outline agreement with its workforce to cut costs, which will see plans for 59 compulsory redundancies shelved. Instead, Jarrold has proposed just 20 voluntary redundancies and a change in shift patterns. The deal has...

Big is beautiful says Shell.(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... The value of large format sheetfed presses has been proved, argues Butler & Tanner, in a 10-day running time for 2.2 million publications making up the Shell annual report and accounts. In all there are 13 separate publications consuming...

Picon adds members.(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Picon membership has increased with the addition of three new member companies: Baldwin UK, Oxy-Dry UK and Tectonic UK. The companies provide ancillary products for the commercial sheetfed, commercial web, flexo, converting and newspaper...

Strategy guide.(from British Printing Industries Federation)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... The BPIF has published Facing the Future: A Printers' Guide to Strategy, a DTI sponsored project designed to address the Print 21 report that highlighted the fact that many printing companies could benefit from a deeper strategic insight....

Tickled Pink.(digital printer Pink Panther wins British Broadcasting Corporation Ltd. contract)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... When digital printer Pink Panther in Caerphilly won a contract with the BBC to produce a range of outdoor advertising to promote a BBC regional safe sex campaign, it turned to Litho Supplies to provide a Seiko II IP- 4500 wide format inkjet...

Emap expands.(acquires Excelsior Publications)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Emap wants to become the second biggest publisher in France by acquiring Excelsior Publications from its founding Dupuy family. The E90m takeover of Excelsior, which had sales of E63m and profits of E6.3m last year, has yet to be cleared by...

Vogue makes cover statement.(April 2003 Vogue magazine cover initial user of BASF's Novaspace inks)
April 7, 2003... The cover of this month's Vogue magazine is the first in the world to be produced using BASF's Novaspace inks calling on the repro skills of Colorlux in Verona and print skills of St Ives Roche. The result is a standout cover which, says...

Millvale looks to growth.(installs first multi-color press)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Evesham printer Millvale has installed a five-unit Komori Lithrone 528ES from used Komori dealer DDJ Graphic Machinery. Managing director Clive Millward says the company bought its first multi-colour press "because of increased demand for...

Northmann Vikings attack.(asset management products, logo on Viking longboat prow)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Copyright: CMP Information Ltd. NCS Integrated Systems and The ColourPeople are first UK distributors for Northmann's asset management products, which now include a pay as you go version. The Danish developer was formed in November...

Camps accolade.(Enfocus Software founder Peter Camps wins award)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Peter Camps, founder of Enfocus Software, has won the first Pioneer of PDF award from pdfnews.de, an online publication in Germany reporting on the latest developments in PDF. The award recognises people active in the graphic arts industry for...

William Witts end.(takeover by Cougar Printing)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... One of Yorkshire's oldest printers is changing hands. Dating back to 1838, William Witts has been a family firm in Bramley until its recent takeover by Cougar Printing. It is proposing to run William Witts alongside its existing business and...

QM46 for Kirklees.(Kirklees Metropolitan Council's Heidelberg press)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Kirklees Metropolitan Council has installed its first Heidelberg press, a QM46 two-colour, to increase productivity and provide better print services to the local authority. It is estimated that the arrival of the press will mean 10% of litho...

Pillans and Waddies complete merger.
April 7, 2003... The integration of Edinburgh printers Pillans & Wilson and Waddies as major elements of Ormolu Group operations will be completed on April 25 when the two businesses begin trading as Pillans & Waddies under managing director Gordon Sampson. ...

Stewart praises Germinate print process software.(George Stewart uses Germinate software, Press Signature application)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Edinburgh printer George Stewart is claiming that a software application installed to improve colour control across its press room is having a marked effect within months. The Press Signature application, developed by UK company Germinate,...

Four-page first.(Bowmans uses PlateRite 4100 entry level B2 platesetter)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Leeds commercial printer Bowmans is the first UK user of Screen's PlateRite 4100 entry level B2 platesetter with Trueflow production software. Since its installation, the company says the PlateRite 4100 has improved production in both...

New PCC director.(Stephen Gilbert appointed at Printers' Charitable Corporation)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... The Printers' Charitable Corporation has a new director, Stephen Gilbert, who joins on June 5. The appointment follows the death of former director Teresa Searle at the end of last year. Mr Gilbert is currently appeals director for St Wilfred's...

Training at Heidelberg.
April 7, 2003... The Print Media Academy's International Management Program takes place in Heidelberg from July 14 to 20. Print and media managers from all over the world are given a week of practical information about the important trends in management and...

Screen success.(1000th Trueflow workflow system sale)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Screen is celebrating the sale of its 1000th Trueflow workflow system worldwide, only three years after its launch at Drupa 2000. Installed at Zalsman Kampen in The Netherlands, Trueflow forms part of the company's investment in its first ctp...

Crest to close as last hope mbo bid collapses.(Crest Packaging)
April 7, 2003... Following the collapse of an 11th hour mbo bid to take it out of receivership Crest Packaging will be closed by May with the loss of 500 jobs. Fifty jobs have already gone and the workforce will be wound down to a skeleton staff over the...

Xerox leads digital in Europe.(market share)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Xerox has regained leadership of the Western European professional digital colour market according to a report from industry analyst InfoSource. By the end of 2002, Xerox had surged to the top with 28.1% overall market share. In...

Labelsco relocates to meet label demand.(new premises in Barwell)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Leicestershire label printer Labelsco has relocated to new 67,000sq ft premises in Barwell to meet growth in demand for its label and laminate printing. The #2m investment includes a Digital Cromalin proofer and a Nilpeter FA 3300 uv press with...

Wyndeham Heron eases bindery pressure.(Muller Martini Tempo saddlestitcher installed)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Wyndeham Heron has installed a new Muller Martini Tempo, the fastest saddlestitcher available from the Swiss manufacturer, in order to ease pressure on its bindery in the wake of its BMJ contract win (See Digital on page 17). The company...

No game for lemmings.(ctp in the commercial printing industry)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... The uptake of ctp among B2 commercial printers is either mass hysteria or evidence that something more fundamental is happening. The four page sector should be least susceptible to investment for the sake of it. It's simple to impose four page...

Letter: QCA hits back at `sabotage'.(Letter to the Editor)
April 7, 2003... QCA rejects the unfounded assertion of `sabotaging' the online Modern Apprenticeship course at the London College of (Printing World, last week). Neither was the course "blocked" by QCA's "lack of flexibility". The new Level 2 and 3...

Letter: Priority given to finishing.(Letter to the Editor)
April 7, 2003... I read with interest your article Mounted advance (Printing World, March 31). It seems that some finishing houses maybe out of touch with the latest advances in covermount technology. The photograph in your article (which was actually taken...

Publishing NTO not to be.(National Training Organization to close in May)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... As with printing, publishing has been told it is too small a trade to qualify for its own sector skills council, the government's new training body. The current National Training Organisation will close at the end of May and publishing will...

Livingstone goes solo.(Livingstone Guarantee acquired by partners)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Livingstone Guarantee, the mergers and acquisitions boutique that counts print and packaging as one of its specialisms, has itself been taken over for the second time in 18 months. Having been taken over by the Tenon Group in October 2001,...

Slater sticks with Cavalier.(Slater Harrison acquires Cavalier Tapes and Conversions )(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Slater Harrison, the supplier of specialist coated papers and boards, has acquired Cavalier Tapes and Conversions which makes materials and labels for the point of sale, packaging and exhibition markets. Slater Harrison had already acquired...

Color Wheel jailing.(Haluk Ergulec, the founder and former ceo)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Haluk Ergulec, the founder and former ceo of Manhattan printer Color Wheel, has been jailed for 37 months and ordered to pay $1.5m in restitution to a number of ad agencies. Mr Ergulec had pleaded guilty to bid rigging, bribery and fraud. ...

Gannet takeover is on.(takeover of Scottish Media Group's newspapers in Scotland gains regulatory approval)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Gannett has had its takeover of Scottish Media Group's newspapers in Scotland, including the Glasgow Herald, cleared by the Department of Trade and Industry two months after SMG shareholders gave the deal the thumbs up. A 2.5p dividend will be...

Paul Utting joins Wyndeham as md.(group managing director at Wyndeham Press Group)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... St Ives Web sales director Paul Utting has been lured to become group managing director at Wyndeham Press Group, a new role created by the elevation of Wyndeham chief executive Bryan Bedson to executive chairman. Mr Utting, who at just 37...

Interest in AOL goes AWOL.(Hodder Headline not acquiring book unit from AOL Time Warner)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... AOL Time Warner, whose books unit is up for sale, will not be bought by WH Smith. WH Smith's publishing arm Hodder Headline had considered a bid for the unit, whose imprints include Warner Books and Little, Brown, but has since lost interest,...

De La Rue gets all clear for takeover.(takeover of the Bank of England printworks )(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... De La Rue's takeover of the Bank of England printworks at Debden, Essex, has been completed with a price tag of #10m, having been cleared by the competition authorities as expected. De La Rue has also released more figures about the...

Guiton glad to be out of print.(Guiton Group 2002 earnings report)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... The decision by Guiton Group, the newspaper publisher in Jersey and Guernsey, to back out of commercial printing seems to have been vindicated. Pre-tax profits in 2002 were up 39% at #4.3m. Last year Guiton closed its book printing...

Xerox slated in California.(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Xerox has been judged as having one of America's "most ineffective boards" by the largest pension fund in the US. Calpers, the Californian Public Employees' Retirement System, called for three independent directors to be appointed...

Riverwood and GPIC merge.(Riverwood Holding Inc and Graphic Packaging International Corporation)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Riverwood Holding Inc and Graphic Packaging International Corporation are merging to form a $3bn-turnover packaging group in the US. With sales of about $1.2bn last year, Riverwood specialises in multi- pack beverage packaging such as the...

Appointment of liquidators.(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... * Fahrenheit Creative Ltd Graphic design. Liquidator; DTE, Park House, 26 North End Road, London NW11 7PT * Wrightsons Ltd Printers. Liquidator: HT Phillips, Phillips & Co, 21- 23 Station Road, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire SL9 8ES *...

Meetings of creditors.(Brief Article)(Calendar)
April 7, 2003... * SMJ Graphic Services at Griffins, Faulkner House, Victoria Street, St Albans, Hertfordshire AL1 3SE on April 8 at 11am * Hardy Business Forms Ltd at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, 9 Bond Court, Leeds LS1 2SN on April 7 at 10.30am *...

Notices to creditors.(Data Layout Ltd)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... * Data Layout Ltd Creditors to send claims to SR Cork, Smith & Williamson Ltd, 2 Athenaeum Road, London N20 9YU by May 19 Copyright: CMP Information Ltd.

Final meetings.(Leographics UK Ltd. creditor meeting)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... * Leographics UK Ltd at Elwell Watchorn & Saxton, 109 Swan Street, Sileby, Leicestershire LE12 7NN on April 30 at 10am for members and at 10.30am for creditors Copyright: CMP Information Ltd.

Disclaimer.(announcement by Alter Ego Print & Design Ltd)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... * Alter Ego Print & Design Ltd Business & Innovation Centre, Sunderland Enterprise Park, Sunderland SR5 2TA wishes to make it known that it has no connection whatsoever with Alter Ego Ltd as mentioned in Legals of March 24 Copyright: CMP...

Jersey fits plates.(Huggler & Co)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Jersey printer Huggler & Co has made the move to ctp with a Highwater Platinum, supplied by Openshaw. The Platinum 2218 will handle the six different plate formats that the company uses for commercial work and specialist stationery for...

Proofmaster for Mac OS X.(PerfectProof's Proofmaster Adesso available in Mac format)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... PerfectProof's Proofmaster Adesso, its colour managed Rip, is now available to run on Mac OS X. The Belgian company says the E425 application is suited to creators and publishers wanting to generate colour accurate proofs at the desktop. ...

DNA proves ctp.(new Fuji ctp package)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... DNA Print in Ipswich has installed a complete Fuji ctp package including Luxel Vx-6000 four-up platesetter, Celebrant Rip and Brillia plates and chemistry to help the new company get under way. The only non-Fuji element is an Epson proofer. The...

EC2i goes Native.(new machinery added)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Southend on Sea repro house EC2i has added Xinet's FullPress and WebNative applications to an existing Twist workflow. In addition it has made a substantial investment in additional servers and storage capacity. The bill from Turning Point came...

Dalim develops Twist Power PDF workflow.
April 7, 2003... Dalim is boosting the power of its Twist workflow with a version it is calling the Power PDF Workflow. This is the key part of v4.6, which is rapidly becoming one of the most popular workflow automation applications available. It becomes...

Remote proofing for BMJ.(implementation by Wyndeham Heron)
April 7, 2003... Wyndeham Heron has been able to implement the remote proofing workflow that was instrumental in winning the British Medical Journal contract last year. The solution it has come up with uses Vio to transfer and manage the flow of proofs out...

Stralfors trebles direct mail capacity.(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Stralfors, which is moving to a new factory in the next few weeks, will equip the plant with a new Oce Variostream 7450 and Kern 2500 enveloping machine to triple current direct mail capacity. The #660,000 investment will replace older...

Results down for SSC.(Smurfit Stone Container to miss 1st-quarter earnings expectations)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Packaging and container maker Smurfit Stone Container says it will miss its first quarter forecasts by a wide margin, and is now expecting a loss in the quarter of ten cents per share, compared with earlier forecasts for a healthy profit. The...

Digital film.(product launch by Surface Specialties)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Rayoface WDI, a specially formulated top-coated film for hp indigo digital printing, has been launched by Surface Specialities (formerly UCB Films). Copyright: CMP Information Ltd.

Inkjet range.(new paper line from Repropoint)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Woking digital print solutions provider Repropoint has launched a new range of "Inkjet papers for the professional", giving a high quality finish at half the price of other equivalent brands. They are available in a range of finishes including...

Laminated demand.(FiberMark is offering Offset Balmoral paper)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... To capitalise on the trend towards the use of printed laminated covers FiberMark is offering Offset Balmoral. At 185gsm the product is stocked in master rolls and sheeted to requirements. Copyright: CMP Information Ltd.

Meeting demand.(Sappi's Voltage range of coated papers)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Capitalising on current demand for a wide variety of digital papers is the aim behind Sappi's Voltage, a range of coated papers. "Voltage is set to become the number one choice for high quality digital applications, from targeted mailings...

Ad uncertainty casts shadows.(on the paper industry)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... The inevitable negative impact of war in Iraq on company performances is already being felt by some of the industry's biggest players. And one city analyst says the situation is set to worsen: "Higher energy prices will have an impact on...

Better bleaching.(investment by Stora Enso)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Stora Enso aims to enhance the quality of magazine paper products with a new peroxide plant at its Veitsiluoto Mills as part of a E30 million ($31.6 million) spend. The biological effluent treatment plant will also be enlarged to meet...

Super sister unveiled.(Digital Matters introduces Symbio Super Satin paper grade)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Following the success of its Symbio Super Gloss paper launched last year, Digital Matters, a division of the James McNaughton Group, has unveiled a sister grade. Symbio Super Satin joins the Symbio large format digital print range after...

E-commerce integration for IP.(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Integrating wood suppliers to its wood fibre supply chain systems and automating plus improving the flow of key information to suppliers is the aim of the International Paper and ForestExpress's latest venture. Via e-commerce IP can now...

Groups join forces.(merger between Northern Newspaper Group and Alpha Newspaper Group)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Alpha Newspaper Group and Northern Newspaper Group in Ireland have merged. The new Northern Alpha Newspaper Group, which includes the Antrim Guardian and Tyrone Courier will have a total circulation of 120,000. Copyright: CMP Information...

New post at Oldham.(Levor Oldham named vice chairman at Oldham Associates)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Oldham Associates, the parent company of Digital Technology International has created a vice chairman post on the board of the systems supplier. Levor Oldham, one of the founders of Oldham and involved with DTI since its beginning in 1981, has...

Flat February.(newsprint consumption in North America)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Newsprint consumption in North America was flat in February from a year before while inventories were mounting, according to the Pulp and Paper Products Council in Montreal. A restatement of daily newspaper consumption by the Newspaper...

Flexo welcome.(Harmsworth Quays welcomes decision by MacDermid Printing Solutions)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Harmsworth Quays has welcomed the move by US print supplier MacDermid Printing Solutions to manufacture newspaper flexo plates in Europe. The Atlanta company announced it had retained a European consulting firm to conduct a site selection...

Western Mail & Echo move boost.(new newspaper printing site)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... The Western Mail & Echo, the Trinity Mirror-owned newspaper group, has been reaping the benefits of its new #17m printing site. Production has been moved out of the centre of Cardiff at offices shared with editorial and advertising next to...

KPG wins Delaroche order.(contract)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... KPG has won an important order for two Newsetter thermal ctp lines and a four-year contract to supply ThermalNews plates. KPG says the deal is a "tremendous lift" for thermal ctp in newspapers and takes the number of its thermal ctp...

Sixth Sense invests in Ad-Exemble.(PcsdotNet offers the advertising system)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... The British Forces' newspaper in Germany, Sixth Sense, has ordered the Ad-Exemble advertising system from PcsdotNet. The system includes two of the Ad-Exemble modules, AdBooking and AdCRM, which will be linked to a Sage accounts system. ...

MM parties with H+H.(Miniature Marketing invests in a Herzog + Heymann KL112 miniature folder)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Specialist print finisher Miniature Marketing, Bristol, has celebrated its first birthday with its first major investment in new equipment, a Herzog + Heymann KL112 miniature folder. It means it can now accept jobs in smaller sizes than its old...

Digifold at Ocean.(Ocean Digital install's Morgana's Digifold equipment)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Ocean Digital, a division of Coventry's Litho Craft, has installed Morgana's Digifold integrated creaser and folder. The company runs a Xeikon 500D as well as an all Morgana bindery and the Digifold will be used for a variety of jobs with run...

Jam free.(FCWW.COM gets a KAS Mailmaster 465 machine)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... A KAS Mailmaster 465 mailing and inserting machine has been installed at FCWW.COM, an international courier company in Colnbrook, Slough, which handles work for a number of financial printers in the City. It says the KAS mailing line looked to...

Seal cutting.(Seal Graphics UK Ltd., Multicut, Easy Trim cutters)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Seal Graphics has added two new cutters to its product offering. Firstly is the Multicut which can handle thicknesses of 13mm and length of 1.6m and second is the Easy Trim, capable of cutting materials ranging from tissue to plastics in any...

Scorpio gears up for gravure with UK first.(Scorpio Print Finishing Ltd., hopper feeders from Feuiltault Machinery Canada Inc. )(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Scorpio Print Finishing is to become the first company in the UK to install hopper feeders from specialist Canadian manufacturer Feuiltault Machinery in order to improve the speed it can stitch web and gravure work. Feuiltault kit is now...

UK trimming goes global.(Wilstead Systems Ltd. worldwide introduction, Fastset 305, three-knife trimmer)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Wilstead Systems has announced the worldwide launch of its Fastset 305 three-knife trimmer, aimed at the digital print market. The Stockport company has been manufacturing finishing kit for 30 years although mainly for the security sector...

Muller makes inline tab cutting possible.(Muller Martini UK, Tempo saddlestitcher )(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Muller Martini is bringing a new option to its Tempo saddlestitcher that enables index tabs to be cut into signatures inline at high speed. Tab production is traditionally seen as costly and labour intensive, although Swedish manufacturer...

Climate of change.(Picon Ltd. rebrands paper machinery division, named British Paper Machinery Suppliers Association)
April 7, 2003... After surveying its members last year, Picon's programme of innovations is already under way, beginning with a rebranding of its paper machinery division By Sasa Jankovic Tim Webb, managing director of Russell-Webb, is back in the...

Spotlight on safety.(Radtech Europe sponsors UV Safely Into Profit symposium)
April 7, 2003... The printing industry was labelled the nation's most dangerous manufacturing environment at the UV Safely Into Profit symposium. However, there are signs that attitudes to safety are changing for the better By Rod Hayes "The printing...

Investment decisions.(investing between conventional and ctp)
April 7, 2003... As a group B2 printers have been more reluctant to go ctp than their big B1 brothers. Perhaps now is the time for B2 printers to come to the aid of ctp suppliers By Rod Hayes If a B2 printer came up to me with a bag full of money and...

Heat or light?(thermal or visible light printing machinery)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... B2 printers who opt for ctp face a further decision. Should they choose a thermal or a visible light solution? By Marion Wilson B2 printers following B1 companies down the ctp track are confronting a dilemma. When it comes to plates...

Processless.(Creo UK Ltd. emonstrating recently launched system )(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Opinion is divided on whether or not processless is the way forward for ctp but it is attracting a lot of interest and there will be many visitors to Creo's stand at Northprint where it will be demonstrating its recently launched system using...