Printing World articles from July 2004

Printing World archives from July 2004

Clowes to unsheathe first UK Xcalibur XXT.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... William Clowes is taking the country's first Agfa Xcalibur XXT platesetter to support plans for growth in the consumer book market. The purchase complements the book printer's investment in its fourth web press, a bespoke 96pp Timson Royal,...

Guardian set to become ein Berliner.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... The Guardian is to spend #50m on new presses to become the first UK newspaper to be printed in Berliner format. Staff were told last week that the parent Guardian Media Group had given the go ahead, but the firm was making no comment as...

Tall secures Aspen customer base.(Aspen Pre-Print)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... The Tall Group, the security printer whose work includes cheques for Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, has again bought the customer base of another cheque printer. Aspen Pre-Print, which was located in Gloucestershire, went into...

Arvato to name site.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Arvato will confirm the location of its UK gravure site in an announcement today (July 1). A spokesperson could not divulge the location itself but says that the announcement will be made on Merseyside, pointing towards confirmation of a...

Etrinsic sponsors race.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... FujiPrint management firm Etrinsic teamed up with the Confederation of British Industry to sponsor a flat race at Windsor in support of the charity Action Medical Research. The meeting at the Royal Windsor Racecourse featured six races...

National Park Plan.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Prontaprint of Stricklandgate in Kendal has designed and produced the National Park Management Plan for the Lake District National Park Authority. This ten-year plan, which is updated every five years, guides the management of the Lake...

Eddy Shah golf stable.(Eddy Shah's Messenger Leisure Group )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Eddy Shah's Messenger Leisure Group has bought The Wiltshire Golf and Country Club to add to The Norfolk and Suffolk which are already part of the former newspaper tycoon's golf stable. Having recently sold The Essex to Clubhaus for just under...

New title.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... The Economist has launched a new title, Intelligent Life, which will be published annually. The magazine which will cover trends in medicine, technology and public affairs, hits the newsstands this week priced at #4.70. The publisher expects...

Heidelberg rearranges after RWE.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Heidelberg's post-RWE control is starting to manifest itself in a number of boardroom and management changes. Klaus Spiegel, has asked to be released from his role on Heidelberg's management board, and is leaving Heidelberg on good terms....

True North site bags AN titles before build.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Polestar Group's planned True North gravure site has acquired its first customer before the plant has even been built. Associated Newspapers has awarded Polestar a five-year contract for three weekly magazine supplements, two of which - the...

Strong takes NJP chair.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Former Archant chief executive Peter Strong has been called in to chair New Jarrold Printing in Norwich. He spent 27 years in the area with Emap and six at the head of Archant, the former Eastern Counties Newspapers, before retiring two...

WE Berry staff in wait.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Former employees of WE Berry face a waiting game to find out how much compensation they will receive after winning a tribunal for a protective award. The 146 staff who lost their jobs when the Bradford web printer closed in February stand...

Newly modernised premises.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Scapa has opened its newly modernised premises in Dunstable, Bedfordshire. The Department of Trade and Industry provided a grant of #1m which was matched with a #7.5m investment from Scapa to complete the expansion. The new facility has been...

Ticketless system worldwide.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Traditional airline tickets will disappear by the end of 2007 under plans by the International Air Transport Association to implement a ticketless system worldwide. IATA has set a 30-month deadline for members to remove paper tickets and...

Olympic appointment.(Olympic Committee Board of Directors)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Stephanie Streeter, chairman, president and chief executive officer at Banta Corporation, has been appointed to the 11-member United States Olympic Committee Board of Directors. Ms Streeter joined Banta Corporation, a $1.4bn printing and supply...

Excellence training.(More Training)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Work-based training providers More Training has achieved Centre of Vocational Excellence in Print Production status. The company offers training to printing companies in machine printing, screen printing, desktop publishing and print finishing...

Strike by French print workers.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... A strike by French print workers blocked publication of all national newspapers last Thursday. The CGT union called the strike to protest against recent upheavals in the publishing industry which it says are threatening jobs. The action came...

Wyndeham is latest convert to Technique.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... The Wyndeham Group has adopted a production planning software system developed by Leeds developer Technique to further aid management resources across the group. It has joined an impressive list of leading UK adopters of the Technique...

Lightning strikes 1 million.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Lightning Source is celebrating the printing of its one-millionth book. First published in 1996, The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth Century Novel, edited by John Richetti and part of the Cambridge Companions series was the one-millionth...

Sappi hikes woodfree prices for second time.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Sappi is to increase the price of some of its woodfree coated papers for the second time this year. The company says it will put up WFC sheets and reels by 5-7% in September in line with expected strong growth in worldwide demand for...

First person to pass online course.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Serena Scarborough has become the first person to pass the `Introduction of Print Media Communication' online course from Leeds College of Technology. Ms Scarborough works as an account manager for Nilorn Calmon UK, supplier and manufacturer of...

Measurement survey.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... The Association of Publishing Agencies is working with its membership of customer publishing agencies and Milliards Brown to launch a recognised industry approach for the measurement of customer magazines. The APA has recognised that there is...

Quark UK team.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Quark has appointed four employees to its UK team following the establishment of a new executive team at Quark earlier this year. Tim Barber joins as a sales engineer, Gavin Drake becomes marketing director, Michael Perkins becomes senior...

Butt aims to kickstart big plans at Broglia.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... South coast B1 sheetfed printer Broglia Press has emerged from what it describes as "a very painful restructuring" with big plans for the future. Muzna Butt, who held senior positions with De La Rue, including taking charge of turning...

Trade acts to protect.(Infosafe)(Trade Forms (Scotland)'s new security service )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Documents and items likely to be forged such as limited edition prints and reports with a strong security element can be given protection by a simple system developed by Trade Forms (Scotland) of Hillington, Glasgow. Called Infosafe, it is...

EFl hires Spiers.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Bob Spiers, former managing director of OCSL, has joined EFI to head the sales effort for its MIS systems in Europe. EFI has little presence in Europe though ceo Guy Gecht says it believes there to be great opportunities in Europe. "In MIS...

Markzware's online preflighting course takes off.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... The widespread take up of the Mac operating system OS X has prompted Markzware, the preflight specialists, to organise an online training course for its FlightCheck 5. It has teamed up with printing and graphic communications training...

Help from Prontaprint.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Celebrities such as jockeys Walter Swinburn and John Francome joined amateur players in a special golf tournament to help rebuild the Cynthia Spencer Hospice. The tournament was organised by Allan Lamb Associates with help from Prontaprint...

Gutenberg Festival.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... The 2005 Gutenberg Festival will move venue and be held in the Los Angeles Convention Center between April 28-30. The Graphic Arts Show Company which produces the Global Print and Converting Exhibition alongside the annual Graph Expo will also...

New journal.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Pira's new journal, Industrial Inkjet is about to launch and customers can try it free of charge. The journal is dedicated to exploring technologies and applications for inkjet printing of electronics, packaging, displays and labels and each...

Savings on phone bills.(British Association of Print and Copyshops )
July 1, 2004... The BAPC has completed negotiations with BT to give members substantial savings on their phone bills. The first week has been a success with more than 300 members applying to join the scheme. For details of the scheme visit www.bapc.co.uk or...

Silver anniversary.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Arnold Cook (Graphic Arts) has celebrated its silver anniversary of serving the printing and graphic industries. To commemorate the event it is offering a 10% discount on the first 200 orders received accompanied by a silver anniversary form or...

Polestar ends printing at East Kilbride plant.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Polestar is to end printing at its East Kilbride web offset factory, but has pledged to keep the bindery open until next year under a deal agreed last week with the GPMU. The printworks had been on notice since the company went back on...

Colourplan's Mits comes in.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Ipswich general printer Colourplan has installed a Mitsubishi five- colour B2 press. The company, which was formed by brothers Steve and Rob Stone 15 years ago, has replaced a two-colour Heidelberg SORM, but will retain a single-colour...

Rushmore rises.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... A patented sale display system called Rushmore, developed by the Simpsongroup, Washington, Tyne and Wear, is creating considerable interest thanks to its simple slide assembly system. Graeme Wilkie, ICT manager, says: "Point-of-sale material,...

SPS presses NUR Tempo straight into service.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... SPS Digital quickly put its new NUR Tempo flatbed inkjet press to work to turnround PoP material for a summer sunscreen launch. SPS Group acquired the Tempo in a #1m expansion of its digital division in Ferndown, Dorset. It was chosen for...

Second Sakurai press.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Printing Zone has installed a second SRA2 Sakurai press within a year at its Doncaster production facility. The latest machine, a five-colour OL566 SI complements the OL466 SIP convertible perfector already installed. Darren Hunter, production...

Prontaprint Brighton celebrates.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... John and Angela Wilkinson, franchisees of Prontaprint Brighton and Hove have expanded and doubled business turnover since they started two years ago. They are celebrating the second anniversary with new inhouse laminating technology and a new...

Mini Cheddars poster.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... United Biscuits has adopted a new advertising campaign that positions its Mini Cheddars as a snack that is dependable in an uncertain world. Publicis has produced the six-sheet poster, all of which carry the line, `You know where you are with...

Visual Communications show.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... The Visual Communications Europe trade show will be held between September 15-17 at the Paris Expo, Porte de Versailles, Hall 7/8. It will be the first Europe wide event in the sector since 2002 and 156 exhibitors have already signed up...

BPIF awards first four scholarships.(British Printing Industries Federation)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... The BPIF has awarded the first of its educational scholarships to four students in the printing and graphic arts industries. The winning students, Darren Ammar, Ulrike Fischer, Jenny Keeble and Owen Pawsey, each received a cheque for #2,500...

Telegraph sale leaves newspapers in limbo.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... The takeover of the Telegraph Group has left the newspaper industry in further limbo. Richard Desmond, who was a rival bidder, is pondering the future of West Ferry Printers, the Telegraph has to consider new printing formats and German...

Ipex stands up on 2000.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Sales of Ipex stands are ahead of exhibition sign ups at the same stage in 2000, it was revealed this week, drawing comment from key suppliers that it could signal a revival of confidence in the printing industry. Trevor Crawford,...

Forger strikes Celtic.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... When 80,000 Celtic fans travelled to Seville 13 months ago for the Uefa Cup final, only 15,000 had valid tickets. At least a hundred more were carrying very convincing counterfeits produced in a bedroom in Glasgow. Last week, the forger,...

Xerox to fit Docutechs to tackle coated stock.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Xerox UK has announced a development for its Docutech range that will enable existing machines in its 6180 and 6155 series to print on coated stocks, including those with a gloss finish. At present Xerox is rolling out the option as standard on...

High flyers from LCC saluted at Mail gongs.(London College of Communication )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... High achieving students from the London College of Communication have been recognised at the Daily Mail's Blue Riband awards. The winners all recently graduated from BA honours degrees in Publishing and Print Media Management run by the...

Zee release.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Zee TV, the Hindi and English language Asian network broadcasting in the UK, has launched a subscriber magazine. Jarrolds will print Zee Magazine, the 130-page glossy title which is aimed at 100,000 of the television station's...

Delta recruits sales duo.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Point-of-sale specialist Delta Group has made two appointments in a restructuring of the company's sales operations. Richard Harris joins in the newly created operations director role and will oversee all sales and marketing activities,...

COMMENT: Fair exchange, not robbery.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... The announcement this week that Sappi Europe is to seek a further price rise of 5-7% coming within just a few months of an earlier price hike smacks of opportunism and extraordinary boldness. Sappi claims rising raw material prices are...

Letter: Let us compete with Europe.(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2004... As group finance director of Scottish papermakers Tullis Russell, I would like to sound out a warning this week that the government's decision to attempt to lead the way in international carbon dioxide reduction could put jobs and industries at...

FT stake.(Financial Times)(Business Standard)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... The Financial Times has acquired a 13.85% stake in Business Standard, India's second largest business daily newspaper. The $3.05m investment makes the Financial Times the first foreign media group to purchase an interest in an Indian newspaper....

Recruitment survey.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... A poll of 976 recruitment professionals carried out for the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development reveals that 85% of those polled had difficulties hiring people during the last year. To combat the problems of recruiting suitably...

Linx profits warning.(Linx Printing Technologies)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Shares in Linx Printing Technologies plummeted 45p to 276p after a warning that profits would perform below expectations. The St Ives company says in a trading update that printer orders were 10% up year- on-year but a lower unit price on its...

Businesses could be missing interest.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Small and medium-sized businesses in the UK could be missing out on #422m in interest because they are not shopping around to take advantage of the best rates on deposit accounts, according to research commissioned by Alliance & Leicester...

Industrial Trends survey.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... The CBI's Monthly Industrial Trends survey showed that manufacturing orders weakened slightly in June after returning to normal levels in May. The CBI says the result was not significant enough to indicate a marked change in the improving trend...

No dividend from KBA but upturn on the way.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... KBA has confirmed that it will not be paying shareholders a dividend, for the first time in nearly 20 years. The last time the dividend payment was not made was in 1985, but with weaker sales in 2003 and the cost of restructuring the web...

Havelock gets a flyer.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... The point-of-sale division of Havelock Europa has had a strong start of the year, chairman Michael Kennedy has told shareholders at the company's agm. Hevelock Europe has a spread of interests including education furniture and store...

DS Smith stays ahead of market.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... The continuing pressure on margins in the paper market did not stop DS Smith recording a 13% increase in profits for the year. The company recorded pre-tax figures of #77.8m on sales of #1.49bn, up from #69m on sales of #1.48bn the year...

FIPP tells of China breaks.(Federation Internationale de la Presse Periodique)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... There is an increasing opportunity for overseas publishers to control their own destiny in China. A conference organised by international publishers forum FIPP was told that foreign publishing companies are to be permitted to take a stake...

Wage bias favours south.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Staff at companies in London and the south are consistently paid more than their counterparts in the Midlands and north, with one notable exception. According to a BAPC survey of members' wages, rates are higher the further south you go....

Iraqi photos dull Mirror's outlook.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Circulation fell at the Daily Mirror in May as the paper felt the effects of the fake Iraq photos scandal. Deserting readers left the flagship Trinity Mirror title with a circulation of 1.85m, which was 6% lower than the equivalent figure...

Potter profits to keep Bury Blooming.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Bloomsbury Publishing is expected to conjure a growth in profits this year after a buoyant first six-months' trading. Pre-tax profit forecasts for the company, which publishes the blockbusting Harry Potter series, are #16.5m against #15.3m...

Compulsory winding up.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... The following cases are due to be heard at the Royal Courts of Justice, Strand, London WC2A 2LL * PDC Copyprint 4 Corporation Street, Taunton, Somerset, Bath and North East Somerset TA1 4AW on July 7 at 10.30am. Petition by Customs and...

Appointment of liquidators.
July 1, 2004... * Balmoral Publishing Ltd Magazine publishing. Liquidator: L Biscoe, Begbies Traynor, the Old Exchange, 234 Southchurch Road, Southend-on- Sea, Essex * Ella Publishing Ltd Publishing house. Liquidator: TJ Thompson, Piper Thompson, Mulberry...

Meetings of creditors.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... * Aztec Printing & Graphics Ltd at The Avon Gorge Hotel, Sion Hill, Clifton, Bristol BS8 4LD on June 24 * Barham Print Ltd at 76 New Cavendish Street, London W1G 9TB on June 29 * Publish on Demand Ltd at Begbies Traynor, The Old...

Pit Pilot rides crest of UK wave with Century.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Surfer Joe Moran set up Pit Pilot last year because at the age of 25 he wanted to try to make some money out of a sport he enjoyed and put something back into the British surf scene. "I looked into it to see if it was possible and then took...

Q&A Why you should look at the monitor.(Interview)
July 1, 2004... Craig Robertson, product marketing manager of KPG points out the advantages of monitor proofing What is the difference between monitor proofing and virtual proofing? Monitor proofing is the approval of files using a monitor as opposed...

Getting there: Edward Taylor.(Interview)
July 1, 2004... EDWARD TAYLOR What has been the best moment of your career? Being invited to join the MRP board of directors. What was the one that got away? They happen every day. It's just chin up and get the next one. And what was the...

Why buy: Suprasetter.
July 1, 2004... Heidelberg launched a new platesetter at Drupa, which completes its line up of home built devices By Nessan Cleary Among a host of announcements at the press conference before Drupa, Heidelberg launched a new platesetter, the...

MAKING A DIFFERENCE: Screen is rosy in the Garden.
July 1, 2004... Garden House Press's investment in Screen's PlateRite 8800 is paying dividends in all sorts of ways not least because it is very quick and reliable By Gareth Ward Garden House Press is a veteran when it comes to working with computer...

The life of a prize guy.(Interview)
July 1, 2004... A year has passed since Kristian Harris scooped the Young Printer of the Year award. Here he talks about the rights and wrongs of the industry and how he sees his future Kristian Harris, winner of the Picon-sponsored Young Printer of the...

Twin perils for print.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Sponsor of the Young Printer of the Year Award, Picon, views the industry's image problems and age imbalance as serious issues moving forwards into the future. Chief executive, John Brazier, comments: `Kristian has highlighted the two most...

One Potent Idea.(Open Prepress Interface)
July 1, 2004... The commonly held view that today's fast networks have rendered OPI (Open Prepress Interface) irrelevant is way off the mark By Dr John Yardley It is always difficult to deal with misconceptions when they seem so logical. Take OPI....

Pressing ahead.(Company Profile)
July 1, 2004... There is no doubt Presstek is on the up under Ed Marino, but can it convince the market that DI can rival digital in short run quality colour? By Gareth Ward It has been an interesting two years for Presstek. The company has...

SOFT PROOFING: Why be hard when you can be a big softy.
July 1, 2004... With a growing number of applications hitting the market, soft proofing is a coming force that will one day render hard proofing methods redundant By Gareth Ward The question is not if soft proofing can ever be accepted so much as...

APPLE: Core flaw.
July 1, 2004... Sales of the G5 have been slow. Is this because customers doubt Apple's commitment to the market? By Andy Benedek Recent reports indicate that Apple cannot sell its G5s as fast as it would like. Why is this when the G5 is undoubtedly...

Why the Haynes Mac Manual is an indispensable tool.(Haynes manual for the Macintosh)
July 1, 2004... One of the most vital purchases a car owner can make is that of a Haynes manual for their model of car. Owners may not have the intent to replace a fractured crank shaft or to replace broken piston rings, for which such manuals give step by...

Fujifilm celebrates.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Fujifilm celebrated the tenth anniversary of its graphic systems division with an open day for more than 80 customers and dealers at its Bedford Imaging Centre. Divisional director Keith Dalton said graphic systems had grown in the last decade...

Inkjet Drupa.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... IT Strategies, a major US firm of consultants, has endorsed Printing World's assertion that Drupa 2004 was the inkjet Drupa saying that at least eight new products introduced met its twin requirements of being both new and significant. `The...

Global Graphics licencee.(Canadian software developer Polkadots)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Global Graphics has signed Canadian software developer Polkadots Software as a licencee of both the Harlequin Rip and Jaws PDF Library. These will be incorporated into PrePage-It, an application which links different devices using Harlequin...

Software extended.(PDF2vector )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Square One's PDF conversion software has been extended to cover AutoCad PDF files. The new version of PDF2vector allows engineering files that have been stored as PDF to be opened and then edited in Cad applications. Previously PDF files have...

Ghent workgroup.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... The Ghent workgroup met at the weekend to discuss ways of implementing a marketing and education programme that will centre on a website, white papers and newsletters to spread the word about the standardisation of print ready versions of the...

Vutek distributor.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Vutek has named Nazdar as exclusive North American distributor to the screen printing market. Nazdar tracks its history back 90 years so has a firm foundation in the industry. Vutek is aiming to push its PressVu uv enabled flatbed printers and...

Lazarus returns dead documents to life.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Markzware is testing a new application for its core Markzscout engine which will allow companies to retrieve content from stored Quark pages and move them into different applications, in particular Adobe InDesign. XML Lazarus works by...