Printing World articles from January 2001

Printing World archives from January 2001

Colourful Colourgen.
January 8, 2001... Colourgen is exclusively supplying eight-colour Octachrome and Ultra-Fi inks for the Encad NovaJet 850, offering 20% more colour gamut than previous ink sets. Copyright: United Business Media Ltd.

Brazilian Academy.
January 8, 2001... Heidelberg has opened another Print Media Academy, this time in Sao Paulo, Brazil. With the planned introduction of two more Academies in Cairo and Sydney, it will have a total of 11 sites around the world, in addition to its main academy in...

Xaar licence deal boost.
January 8, 2001... Xaar has signed a licence agreement with an unnamed US corporation, its first such deal with an American company. The deal means that Xaar will supply the company with industrial inkjet printing technology for its products. Although...

BlowUp blows cold on UK print.
January 8, 2001... A new deal between National Car Parks and media house BlowUp Media will lead to an explosion of huge, digitally-printed advertising banners in British cities this year- although all of them will be printed in Austria. BlowUp, part of the...

Sinar sees the world.
January 8, 2001... Sinar has announced the availability of its new 2001 calendar, created by young photographers using Sinar F1 large format cameras. The calendar competition theme - Another Way to See the World - attracted more than 300 entries, the winners...

Managing assets.
January 8, 2001... Phoenix Colour, the Leicester digital printer, is going into digital asset management, setting up a new subsidiary called Phoenix Asset Storage Media Management, using a North Plains TeleScope system. "We have seen corporates getting rid of...

Wanna be in my gang?
January 8, 2001... The BPIF has launched a new three tier subscriptions service to attract new members. Why? Because it only has 2,500 members out of a total of 18,000 printing companies registered in the UK. The federation is not burying its head in the sand...

Paper tiger backs down.
January 8, 2001... WH Smith makes its peace with the publishers. By Tony Brown Let peace and goodwill prevail to all magazine outlets in the land. Lo, Christmas has brought peace to the supply chain and WH Smith has delivered good tidings to the shopkeepers...

The whole kit and caboodle.
January 8, 2001... Heidelberg reports good results for 2000, but what of the future? By Tony Brown Heidelberg's strategy of becoming a "total solutions provider" is paying dividends with a record increase in sales and orders in 2000, spurred on by the...

Wringing the changes.
January 8, 2001... Consolidation is sending publishing in search of new revenue. By Tony Brown Expect to see a huge move to PDF and digital production in the magazine publishing markets this year. Advertisers be warned. Conventional artwork is out and...

Consumer magazines.
January 8, 2001... Magazines can justly claim to be the medium of the decade. Over the last ten years reader expenditure has soared by 129% (four times ahead of inflation) while advertising revenues have increased by more than 30%. Since 1990 circulation has...

Business information.
January 8, 2001... The business-to-business information market is dominated by business magazines, newspapers, journals, directories and other print on paper products, but the ways in which information is delivered are changing. Over the last ten years we...

Customer magazine brands.
January 8, 2001... Customer magazines - titles produced under contract for companies and distributed free, or offered for sale to customers - are largely a magazine industry initiative of the 1980s. The total value of the customer magazine sector is more than...

Taking the direct approach.
January 8, 2001... There are many economic factors that affect direct mail. By Jim Larkin With Post Office deregulation, stricter waste legislation and radical developments taking place across competing media, it would appear the direct mail sector is in for...

Looking good on paper.
January 8, 2001... Can the paper industry start to celebrate in 2001? By Tony Brown & Fiona Fraser Last year saw the great paper price recovery. After a decade in the doldrums with paper and pulp prices at record lows, finally there was some relief for paper...

Cepi Factfile.
January 8, 2001... * According to the Confederation of European Paper Industries, the European pulp and paper industry generates an annual turnover of more than j50bn * In 1999, Cepi member countries produced 85.2 million tonnes of paper and board, an...

A colourful future for books.
January 8, 2001... The threat from e-books has receded and it could be a good year for traditional print. By Alex Grant For the first time in years, bookprinters are expecting the New Year to be better than the old, albeit slightly. The year 2000 was a...

Final chapter on e-Books.
January 8, 2001... e-Books could prove to be one of the first white elephants of the 21st century, according to a new American study. Far from overtaking the printed word, the e-Book industry will only be worth $250m in five-years' time, while print-on-demand...

Vain hopes raised.
January 8, 2001... Waiting in the wings are the digital book printers like Biddles Short- run Books and XPS, and a new wave of publishers that own their print facilities. Companies like Planetree Publishing in Powys offer writers a cheaper chance of making...

PO plans derailed.
January 8, 2001... The future of Post Office deregulation for the direct mail industry could be in jeopardy following the latest developments in Brussels. A directive passed through the European Commission on December 12 outlined a plan for pan-European...

All envelopes to be made square.
January 8, 2001... The end of the Post Office's monopoly would have more consequences for direct mail houses than printers. That is the belief of Richard Herd, managing director of the Envelope Printing Company in Erith, south-east London. "The main...

Anton's ten-colour.
January 8, 2001... The Anton Group has started the New Year placing orders worth #4m for new equipment at its Shenfield factory. These are led by a ten-colour SM 102, the second in the group which will be commissioned early in the summer, says the company. A...

Leeds goes techno.
January 8, 2001... The NCS Group has opened an Advanced Technologies Centre in Leeds to house fully equipped prepress and digital photography demonstration suites. Twelve jobs have been created at the centre which specialises in server solutions for corporate...

Crowds at Komori.
January 8, 2001... Komori's recent 60 Minute Printing & Coating Workshop attracted more than 250 delegates over three days. The workshop featured presentations from Polygraphica, Winnetts Graphics, Nordson and Baldwin among others. Copyright: United Business...

#1,200 for GOSH.
January 8, 2001... Great Ormond Street Hospital is to receive #1,200 from Printing World's Christmas 2000 appeal (Printing World, December 18). Many thanks to all those who participated, including Agfa, Litho Supplies, GAE, Headley Brothers, Rietschle, Fuji and...

SM74 aids Asian Marketing expansion.
January 8, 2001... The Asian Marketing Group has installed a new four-colour Heidelberg Speedmaster 74 purchased at Drupa. The new press, with CP 2000 and Alcolor dampening, replaces a four-colour Heidelberg MOV-H and is part of the publishing group's investment...

Foo fights for a fitter Keldia.
January 8, 2001... Keldia Printing's new boss Tony Foo is installing a ten-colour Heidelberg SM74 just six months after leading a buyout from its founder Tony Diamond. The new press, due to arrive by the end of January, signals a change in style at the...

Christmas cracker.
January 8, 2001... Two Christmas cakes made for a Litho Supplies' advertisement that appeared in Printing World have gone to a good cause. Joy Corton from Litho Supplies presented the cake to Captain Chris Sands of the Salvation Army to be used as part of the...

Hobs rumours are eclipsed.
January 8, 2001... Eclipse Colour Print in Kettering has denied rumours that it is being bought by Hobs 4DM even though it plans to move next door to Hobs this summer. Hobs 4DM is a direct mail house which only has digital presses inhouse as well as reelfed...

Do not adjust your sets.
January 8, 2001... Welcome back and happy New Year. Notice anything different? If you are still a little bleary eyed after the festivities then do not adjust your set - this is your new Printing World. There is plenty in the issue to kick off the New...

Letter: Size doesn't matter.
January 8, 2001... Having struggled for a year with your over-sized publication, am I right to be celebrating its return to the old size? A leading industry magazine has no need to resort to the tactic of becoming big to be noticed. Content alone should...

Letter: Home front.
January 8, 2001... I read the editorial concerning the Church of England Common Worship 2000 publication in your edition of November 20 2000 and was drawn to the comment that the "Clowes Group was a serious contender for the contract". We were keen to obtain...

Adobe says Q4 a record.
January 8, 2001... Adobe has announced record fourth quarter results. Sales are up 26% to $355.2m in the three months to December 1 2000, although profits fell from $97.4m to $79.2m. With restructuring costs taken out, however, profits reached a record $127.5m...

ID Data sees losses.
January 8, 2001... ID Data, the smart card company that was one of the few print-related firms to float on the Alternative Investment Market last year (Printing World, September 25, 2000), has announced its first interim results showing pretax losses of #1.6m,...

Cheque snubbed.
January 8, 2001... Caradon, the building materials and printing group that is about to be renamed Novar, is under renewed pressure to sell its cheque printing operation in the US from the UK Active Value Fund, a major shareholder. Caradon is resisting the...

Recession fears as US print issues warnings.
January 8, 2001... As US factory output slumped to its lowest level in nine years, the last days of 2000 were marked by a string of unseasonal profits warnings from US companies. RR Donnelley, the world's second largest printing group, has cut its full-year...

Newsprint hike hits revenue.
January 8, 2001... A feared 15% increase in newsprint costs this year will put severe pressure on newspaper publishers which are already seeing advertising revenue and profits begin to peak. Johnston Press, which is trying to take over Yorkshire Post owner...

Amberley decimation.
January 8, 2001... Amberley Group, parent company of Bousfield Heatons where an mbo fell through last September, has reported dismal half-year results showing a 10% fall in sales and a decimation in profits from #3.27m to #337,000. Bousfield's own sales were...

Don't lose the craft.
January 8, 2001... A monthly look at UK print education centres begins with the Leicester School of Print & Media By Robin Meade There has been a printing college in Leicester for 100 years and the future of the present School of Print & Media looks set for...

Grants for skills and kit.
January 8, 2001... From Leicester we go to Nottingham and the East Midlands, where the Print, Media & Graphics Network is helping printers cope with the effects of technological change within the industry. "This is affecting not only production and manufacture...

Web-based typesetting.
January 8, 2001... Charlesworth (01484 517077) has launched a new set of publishing and editing tools under the C-net banner. These work in an Internet environment using an ASP structure and the Huddersfield company claims all the efficiencies of a hardware based...

Smart laser engraving.
January 8, 2001... The West Molesey supplier of direct laser engraving tools, Applied Laser Engraving (020 8941 1101), is launching its Smart series of tools for the production of flexo plates. The technology allows plates to have the selective surface ink...

New inks for Canon.
January 8, 2001... Canon 6000 inkjet printers have an individually integrated head and reservoir system. Lyson of Stockport (0161 442 2111) has produced a specialist range of black inks called Fotonic. Its companion Quad colour set allows the printers to produce...

Fastest ever inks.
January 8, 2001... Hostmann Steinberg's fastest ever setting range of process inks is now available from Keane Graphics (01233 502065). These inks are particularly good for overprinting and very stable under a range of roller temperature conditions. Duct...

Standardising press output.
January 8, 2001... HighWater Designs of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire is to launch Press Signature, a new software product for standardising press output. Developed by Mark Priest of Germinate, it is essentially a calibration tool and will enable presses, whether...

Direct mail made easy with inkjet.
January 8, 2001... Marconi Data Systems has introduced a comparatively simple and straightforward system that may enable printers to diversify into direct mail and variable data inkjet printing. The new Cheshire inkjet base comes in two variants, the 7000 and...

Aiming for fast service.
January 8, 2001... The printer's nemesis - reflex blue - may have its fate sealed if the claims made by Shackell Edwards stand up. The Leatherhead ink manufacturer has launched Hard-Dry Silkoseal in 2kg cartridges. Hard-Dry is claimed to come into its own on...

Lamination goes digital.
January 8, 2001... Hard-Dry comes in 2kg cartridgesLarge format digital printing is now a major sector within the printing industry and has as a result spawned a number of useful ancillary devices. Babs International has now introduced a further two format...

2001: The edge of reason.
January 8, 2001... What can we expect from the world of prepress this year? Will 2001 be the year of a unified prepress environment? By Laurel Brunner Everything that happens begins with what has already happened. If the mess and chaos that was the year 2000...

Survival of the fittest.
January 8, 2001... Gareth Ward studies form While the outlook for many in the prepress business is of further consolidation, some are more optimistic and are planning investment and changes in the next 12 months. Consolidation is, however, certain. There...

Ready for take-off.
January 8, 2001... Avoiding catastrophe in a totally automated digital workflow means the adoption of preflight checks at every process stage By Gareth Ward The digital workflow, in concept, is a tremendous idea, paving the way for a fully automated...

Nuns on the shortrun.
January 8, 2001... Stanbrook Abbey Press believes itself to be the oldest private press in England and is run with dedicated enthusiasm by Benedictine nuns in an enclosed Worcester monastery By Aveleine Byrd There have been countless visits to printers over...

History of Stanbrook Abbey.
January 8, 2001... Stanbrook Abbey belongs to the English Benedictine Congregation, one of 21 within the world-wide Benedictine Confederation. The history of the community itself goes back to 1623 when nine Englishwomen left for Flanders to found the...

Data hygiene to be your 2001 buzzword.
January 8, 2001... Data hygiene - the art of keeping a direct mail database clean and up- to-date - could prove to be the most irritating new buzzword of 2001. But it could be key to the success of direct mail printers. There will certainly be a continued...

PEOPLE.
January 8, 2001... * John Padovan has been appointed chairman of print management giant Williams Lea. He takes over from Tony Williams, chairman for the last 18 years, who moves to become life president. Mr Padovan began his career in the City, and has been a...

The cv.
January 8, 2001... Elizabeth Oddono Major account manager at Vio As an accidental tourist! Fifteen years ago I bounced out of Cork University with a degree in English and Psychology and headed for the bright lights of London. Where did you first start?...

OS profits clouded by criticism.
January 8, 2001... The Ordnance Survey has made a profit for the first time in its 209- year history, even though it faces criticism of its accounting methods and calls from the Tories for the state-owned map printer to be privatised. Although the OS made a...

Compulsory winding up.
January 8, 2001... The following case is due to be heard at the Royal Courts of Justice, Strand, London WC2A 2LL * The Inspired Printing Company Ltd 1 Warner House, Harrovian Business Village, Bessborough, Harrow, Middlesex HA1 3EX on January 24 at 10.30am....

Appointment of liquidators.
January 8, 2001... * Campaign Colour Ltd Lithographic printer. Liquidator: RA Segal, A Segal & Co, Albert Chambers, 221-223 Chingford Mount Road, Chingford, London E4 8LP * FBB Central Ltd Printer. Liquidator: C Morris, Jacksons Corporate Recovery &...

Appointment of receivers.
January 8, 2001... * SMS Direct Ltd, SMS Business Forms Ltd, SMS Creative Ltd, Spectrum Marketing Services Ltd Printers. Joint administrative receivers: SP Bower and DR Whiteley Smith, RSM Robson Rhodes, 186 City Road, London EC1V 2NU Copyright: United...

Meetings of creditors.
January 8, 2001... * Book Box Distribution Ltd at Glenroyd House, 96-98 St James Road, Northampton NN5 5LG on January 5 at 11am * Lancashire Micrographics Ltd at 21 St Andrews Crescent, Cardiff on December 14 * WH Print Services Ltd at 195 Banbury Road,...

Notices to creditors.
January 8, 2001... * Cosma-Tec Print Finishers Ltd Creditors to send claims to A Thompson, The Old Halsall Arms, 2 Summerwood Lane, Halsall L39 8RJ by January 31 * Brewer's Guild Publications Ltd Creditors to send in claims to MT Getliffe, Cooper Lancaster...

Hobbs goes for green.
January 8, 2001... Hobbs the Printers, Southampton, has signed a three year ctp plate supply contract with Printing Techniques for N91 photopolymer plates to run on its Purup Eskofot DMXHS B1 system. "We have gone for using the green Yag laser because we...

The die is cast.
January 8, 2001... Swedish metals giant Sandvik Steel has invested in increasing its manufacturing capacity for diemaking rules that could double output at its Sandvik Saxon works in Rugby. The factory has seen the addition of new edge hardening and edge testing...

Edinburgh's spend.
January 8, 2001... The City of Edinburgh Council has spent #170,000 on Agfa prepress equipment, including a Pilot OPI workflow, a T5000 scanner, PDF and print drive, and Avantra 30 imagesetter, a Sherpa 2 digital proofer as well as two G4 Macs. Copyright:...

Going faster in Leeds.
January 8, 2001... Leeds printer Reprovision has installed a #1.2m Speedmaster which has prompted the firm to move to 24 hour production. It was part of a #2m investment in technology that also included a new IT system which the company claims has cut estimating...

Thumbs up for Violet.
January 8, 2001... Three months after installing what is claimed to be the world's first order for an Agfa Galileo violet ctp system, Spectrum Digital in Walsall is giving the technology the thumbs up. Founded in the early 1990s purely as a repro house, it...

Wabe back in labels.
January 8, 2001... Noel Wabe was a familiar name within the label sector and when he decided to return to it, the press he hung his hopes on was an Edale. The former owner of Arun Labels has spent the last five years pursuing his interests with racehorses,...

Heidelberg wins on training.
January 8, 2001... When you operate in a sector of the industry in which skilled staff are a particular rarity, it is vital that new equipment is accompanied by a promise of training. And this was the case at Cirencester Print Finishers, which has just bought a...

Approval in Barnsley.
January 8, 2001... Barnsley graphic design firm Jennings DAR has installed its second KPG Approval, capable of digital halftone proofing. Colour manager Gary Moore (right), seen here with operator Allan Brown, said: "Approval is unique in that we can adjust the...

EfI/Canon certificates.
January 8, 2001... Electronics for Imaging and Canon have been awarded FedEC certification for the precision of the CLC 1150 printer and Fiery ColorPass Z60 digital printing system when used for proofing. Copyright: United Business Media Ltd.

Spelling it out.
January 8, 2001... Pearson Education has a new automated XML layout system for the dictionaries it publishes, supplied by XyEnterprise. "Some can run to 1,700 pages and it is essential to be 99-100% accurate when calculating the finished size of the dictionary,"...

Duplo's double.
January 8, 2001... Duplo BPS has supplied Duprinters and DuRip Pro Rips at two companies: commercial printer Impressions in Stockport and Featherstone Education, a publishing house in Leicestershire, which previously outsourced most of its school booklets to...

NI looks to sell Wapping home.
January 8, 2001... News International is in talks with press suppliers about expanding its Wapping print plant or possibly moving to a new site entirely and selling the land to property developers. News International denies it has any active plans to move...

No problems with pensions: Mirror.
January 8, 2001... Trinity Mirror has slammed newspaper reports that claim the group's pension fund is under threat following the troubles at Equitable Life. Parallels have been drawn with the Maxwell pensions episode in which holders lost #400m, but Trinity...

#2m windfall from GPMU site sale.
January 8, 2001... The GPMU is deciding how to spend a #2m windfall from the sale of its main London offices, the old NGA building on Long Lane near London Bridge. The union has received "well over #2m" from a firm of architects which will turn the building...

De la Rue swoops.
January 8, 2001... De la Rue, the British security printer, is reported to be leading the race to win the contract to print currency for the Paraguayan Central Bank. Competition is however stiff and De la Rue is accused of having submitted the most expensive bid...

Dantex sells.
January 8, 2001... Openshaw has bought the litho graphics division of Dantex Graphics for an undisclosed sum. Dantex Graphics will retain its letterpress and flexo supplies business. Copyright: United Business Media Ltd.

The boy wonder.
January 8, 2001... Barcode printer specialist Martin Mulligan in St Helens is hailing 17- year old work experience schoolboy Adam Hughes a hero after he devised an e-commerce system that saved the company from bankruptcy. "We expect to net more than #1m from the...

Believe it or not.
January 8, 2001... The average newsagent is handling the equivalent weight of a cow in Sunday supplements each year says Retail Newsagent magazine. Copyright: United Business Media Ltd.

It's back to Heidelberg as MLP sues Brady.
January 8, 2001... The Alito Group, the north London printer run by high profile owner Terry Brady, is in litigation with Mitsubishi Lithographic Presses over Alito's alleged failure to meet payment terms. In a deal struck last year, Alito ended its 20-year...

Jarvis Porter deeper in the red.
January 8, 2001... Jarvis Porter has said it is looking at "all conceivable strategic options," including disposals or merger, following another profits warning. JP has warned that its second half results, due out next month, should show losses higher than...

Thinking bigger.
January 8, 2001... More and more digitally-printed banner ads like this should start appearing outside British multi-storey car parks in 2001, although it will be an Austrian printer that laughs all the way to the bank rather than a British one. Agency BlowUp...

New Year honours.
January 8, 2001... The printing industry now has a knight to complement its two lords after Clive Martin became a knight bachelor following his year as Lord Mayor of London. He joins Lord Gavron of St Ives and the Guardian Media Group, and Lord Evans of...