Printing World articles from June 2003

Printing World archives from June 2003

Deal could spell catalogue demise.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... The doorstep-thick long run agency catalogue - already an endangered species - could have its demise hastened if Littlewoods succeeds in its takeover of GUS's catalogues business. Littlewoods, now owned by the Barclay Brothers, has bought...

Celebrity brings Emap success.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Emap is reaping the rewards of the country's obsession with celebrity with Heat increasing sales by 56% in the year and new launch Closer breaking into the top 20 consumer titles with weekly sales of 300,000. These titles helped increase...

Suppliers bury axe.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Linotype and Agfa Monotype have reached agreement on font licencing, 20 years after the first PostScript fonts appeared. The End User License Agreement will help end the confusion where a user has to deal with different agreements for different...

Balkan opportunity.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... The Bulgarian Privatisation Agency is selling off the largest commercial printer in the country. It is offering 51% of Rodina Printing and Publishing, which handles production for 60 newspapers and magazines as well as commercial work in the...

De La Rue at a loss.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... De La Rue's #50m restructuring programme and a downturn in its cash handling business have pushed the company into the red, with operating profits at #48.1m (#90.6m) in the year to March. Operating profit in Security Paper and Print was #30.4m,...

MAN Roland GB offers lifelong quality tests.
June 2, 2003... MAN Roland GB has thrown down an industry wide challenge with the introduction of its Print Quality Standard (PQS) applied to its new sheetfed presses. All Roland presses have for some time been measured against a specially developed test...

Independent publisher plans magazine launches.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... A new independent magazine publishing company with a string of launches planned has been created by three journalists. Sibella Publishing, London, is the brainchild of Tammy Butt, a former editor of More, along with John Perry and Johnny...

Smiles all round as Andersons opens up in Sheffield.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Now that 20% of all sales at Andersons, the specialist paper and inkjet suppliers, are secured by its northern sales team, managing director Calum Anderson reckoned that it was time to open a 5,000sq ft dedicated office and warehouse in...

DSR back in charge of Printhaus.(Printhaus brings in new managers through job cuts)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Printhaus, the Northampton litho and screen printer, has had new managers brought in by owner Bob Snell to drive through a hefty round of job cuts. Printhaus's old managing director Peter Blundell quit last month, without a new job to go...

Right stuff required.(Professional Certificate in Management course at Loughborough University )(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... The third Professional Certificate in Management course at Loughborough University will kick off in September, just as the initial batch of trainees completes the seven-module course. Details are available from Richard Barron at the BPIF in...

JCM moves again.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... JCM Media is to move in with sister company, direct marketing specialist CDMS, at which point its name will be dropped. The move, to premises near the M62, will take until October, and will result in a single, secure, air conditioned location....

Acrobat gets remote.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Adobe has enabled access to EfI's PrintMe remote printing application within Acrobat 6.0. PrintMe is a menu item within the Acrobat interface allowing a user to select a remote device or print location from a desktop. The file is then...

Irish merger looks a defensive move.(Smurfit Web Press, Lithographic Universal merge)
June 2, 2003... The two leading web offset printers in the Irish Republic have merged, warning that the industry "has no long term future at current cost levels and is badly in need of consolidation". The tie-up between Smurfit Web Press and Lithographic...

Belgian goody for Akzo.(Akzo Nobel acquires Trenal)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Swedish inkmaker Akzo Nobel has upped its presence in the ink market, buying fiercely independent Belgian web ink manufacturer Trenal in a negotiated deal. The acquisition is being backed by NeSBIC, the venture capital company that...

Paper and Publishing merge.(Institute of Paper, Institute of Publishing)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... The Institute of Paper and the Institute of Publishing are merging to form the Institute of Paper and Publishing International. Institute of Paper chief executive David Pryke and Colin Walsh, chairman of the Institute of Publishing, agree...

Creditors agree to Conrad Stapleton IVA.(Individual Voluntary Arrangement of debt )(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Creditors have agreed to the Individual Voluntary Arrangement of debt bound print finisher Conrad Stapleton, but not in the terms originally requested. The Supervisor of the IVA is now Kenneth Touhey, partner at ChantreyVellacott, who has...

New Shoei for First Cut.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Trade Finishers, First Cut, part of Paul Green Printing in Hackney Wick, has installed a Shoei SRT 74-6-4 KTT folder and a Desta paper banding machine from Encore Machinery. `I think we are one of the first companies in the UK to install a...

Benefits for Pira people.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Pira's membership has welcomed the consultancy's strategic reports as an important benefit to membership. Following this success Pira plans to increase the range of reports available in 2003 and cover subjects such as corporate print...

Stora copy quality.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Improved quality of copy paper and the offering of colour is the aim of the rebuild of PM1 at Stora Enso's Nymolla mill in Sweden. Metso Paper has been contracted to revamp the copy paper machine PM1 as part of the mill's g20m spend. The...

Fire halts Belfast Telegraph's presses.
June 2, 2003... Rival newspapers stepped in last week when a fire put the Belfast Telegraph's presses out of action. Both Morton Newspapers in Portadown and Spectator Newspapers, Bangor, printed copies of the Belfast Telegraph to help the publisher out...

UK printers on euro fence.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... A straw poll by the BPIF has revealed that almost half of the UK's printers do not feel sufficiently informed to make a decision on Britain's potential euro entry. To help fill this gap the BPIF has outlined sources of euro information for...

Going green is Practical.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Proving that companies are never too small to go green The Practical Printer in Leicester has become carbon neutral as the latest element in its environmental policy. By working with the Future Forests organisation, The Practical Printer...

Xerox sees double with new technology.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... New Xerox technology means that two images can be printed on top of each other but only one is visible at a time because the hidden image is seen only when viewed under a specific colour of light.w The patent pending technology, called...

Northprint numbers.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... The 160 exhibitors at this year's Northprint attracted more than 3,600 visitors. The majority of visitors hailed from the north of England with 28% from the south and 7% from the UK and overseas, says Helen Beckett, marketing manager at...

Colour contract.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Haymarket Publications has renewed its contract with Colour Systems, a premedia design, digital management and workflow solutions company, until 2006. The Haymarket Group is Britain's largest privately owned publishing company. It produces...

LC's safety handbook.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... The LC Automation has recently published its Machinery Safety Handbook highlighting safety issues for those working with machinery. The manual has been compiled utilising 28 years of machinery safety experience. As leading experts in machinery...

KBA's open house finds wide audience.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Representatives from St Ives, Pindar and DC Thomson were amongst the 280 printers from the English-speaking world flown over to Dresden to see KBA's latest sheetfed developments last week. In one of the largest open house events of its...

From three Bongs to one.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Bong Ljungdahl, the envelope supplier that took over Rexam Envelopes three years ago, is looking to move from three sites in and around Milton Keynes to just one. Bong, a Swedish company, wants to move to just one plant in the UK to allow...

Garnett has capital idea.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... It may be a magazine dedicated to the cosmopolitan delights of the capital but the printer of In London, launched last week, is Rotherham's Garnett Dickinson. The magazine is the first print venture of the Welcome Stranger Group, which is...

Atex Media Command for Metropress.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Metropress, publisher of Antiques Trade Gazette, has selected Atex Media Command to provide its next generation advertising and accounts receivables systems. The London publisher, a division of DMG World Media, will install a 20-user Enterprise...

Big test for Littlewoods.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Littlewoods' bid for the mail order business of Great Universal Stores may result in job cuts and will be referred to the Office of Fair Trading as the resulting company will control about 30% of the home shopping market. GUS used to own the...

GMG fails with Trader.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Attempts by the Guardian Media Group to take sole control of The Trader Media Group, publishers of Auto Trader, have stalled, according to press reports. GMG had wanted to buy BC Partners' 52% stake in the business but talks have foundered and...

MAN Roland now private.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... As expected, MAN Roland's remaining small shareholders have agreed to be bought out at E31.79 a share. MAN AG is exercising its right under German law to increase their stake from 98.6% to 100%, thus eliminating the free-float and delisting the...

Crabtree to blossom after capital injection.
June 2, 2003... Attracting venture capital into the industry may be as difficult as ever these days, but a historic press manufacturer has managed to win private equity backing to break free from a German owner it accused of "systematically phasing out its...

Crabtree's background.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... The maker of the eponymous roll-feed lithographic presses which print on metal sheets for food and drink cans, Crabtree's name dates back to the 1840s. It split from the rest of Crabtree, which made newspaper, forms and book presses in...

HP sees sales rise.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Hewlett Packard has seen a 13% rise in sales in its Imaging and Printing division to $5.5bn, resulting in an operating profit of $918m for the second financial quarter. This is slightly higher than the previous quarter and a larger profit...

Graphic and Offset leaves larger shortfall for creditors.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Graphic and Offset Plates, the consumables supplier which went into receivership last October, left creditors approximately #1.6m out of pocket, more than previously thought. After administrative receivers arrived on October 2 last year, 17...

Germans get on scoresheet.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Although its sales fell 2% in 2002, German security printer Giesecke and Devrient is quietly pleased with a 40% increase in operating profit, in marked contrast to its competitor De La Rue which has warned that profits in 2002-03 will be 25%...

Bowne announces first quarter net loss.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Bowne, the US financial printer who announced it would have to make redundancies at its London operation in April, has revealed a net loss of $4.25m in the first quarter. In the same quarter a year ago the company had made a net profit of...

Compulsory winding up.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... The following cases are due to be heard at the Royal Courts of Justice, Strand, London WC2A 2LL * Loughlin Print Ltd Unit 2, Lea Works, Carpenters Road, London E15 2ED on June 4 at 10.30am. Petition by Inland Revenue * DAC Publishing...

Appointment of liquidators.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... * Mike Bettle Print Partnership Ltd Paper, printing and publishing. Liquidator: NA Bennett, Leonard Curtis & Co, One Great Cumberland Place, London W1H * Microset Imaging Ltd Reprographics. Liquidator: J Kelmanson, The Kelmanson...

Meetings of creditors.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... * Colour Offset Ltd at Tenon Recovery, Sherlock House, 73 Baker Street, London W1U 6RD on May 30 * London City Press Holdings Ltd at Gable House, 239 Regents Park Road, Finchley, London N3 3LF on June 20 at 11am * Excellence in Print...

Final meeting.
June 2, 2003... * Printing Press at KPMG Corporate Recovery, 100 Temple Street, Bristol BS1 6AG on June 27 at 3.30pm Copyright: CMP Information Ltd.

Disclaimer.(Correction Notice)
June 2, 2003... * MB Printers Arch 3, Berkeley Court Business Park, Earl Russell Way, Lawrence Hill, Bristol BS5 0BX wishes to make it known that it has no connection whatsoever with MB Printing Products Ltd as mentioned in Legals of May 26 Need advice on...

Reflecting values.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Folex has introduced a silver film for use on HP Indigo presses. This is a high reflectivity coated polyester decorative film which comes in twin self adhesive versions. The two versions are Digiprint IG/SIK and IG/SISA with a surface coating...

JDF guidance.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Vio has produced a guide on the implications of process automation in the printing industry, based around the JDF specification. It provides a concise introduction to the concept and tackles some of the terminology that is used in discussing...

Oscar winner.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Fuji has won the order for a B2 platesetter from Oscar Group in Milton Keynes, supplying the company with a Luxel Vx-6000 violet diode platesetter. Crucial to the choice was that Fuji's photopolymer plates offer a greener choice over silver...

Gilchrist considers next step for Odin.
June 2, 2003... Gilchrist is considering offering Odin, its inhouse developed workflow management application, to a wider audience, nine months after starting to implement the application with its own client base. The Leeds company began development two...

Best gets even better.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Best, the proofing Rip specialist which is now part of EfI, has released a suite of products labelled as the Best Premium Family. These are a number of bundles which range from matching Best Colorproof and Colormanager to the Screenproof...

Westside story.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Dublin company Westside Press has taken delivery of a Dimension400 platesetter, providing the sheetfed commercial printer with its quota of 150 plates a week. The company is using Anthem plates on three Heidelberg presses, two MOs and a...

It goes there!(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Personalised puzzles, based on aerial photography and digital images from Getmapping, are becoming a lucrative line for specialist jigsaw maker Wentworth Puzzles in Wiltshire. It receives a CD with the 11x14in image area selected by the...

UPM's ABB order.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... ABB's Industrial Web Imaging ESI 7 has been ordered for UPM-Kymmene's No 4 machine at its Kajaani, Finland, mill. PM4 produces newsprint and telephone directory grades and ESI 7 incorporates a number of newly developed features such as a neural...

Pocket sample.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... M-real Home & Office has produced a pocket-sized sample guide for its Data Papers range of business papers - Data Copy, Data Colour Laser, Data Colour Inkjet and Data Colours. Examples of each product, weights and colours available are included...

Visualising Symbol.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... A visual book demonstrating the printing performance of its Symbol Card range has been unveiled by paper and board manufacturer, Fedrigoni. It explores images of protective shells such as ladybirds, crabs, snail and turtles, to highlight the...

Cepi enters flexo and watersoluble debate.
June 2, 2003... Cepi has entered the recycling debate around flexo printing and watersoluble inks, raising concerns about the difficulties posed when it comes to the de-inking element of the paper recycling process. The confederation says the inks break up...

Curtis' fact finding mission.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... A series of briefings on the relaunched Classic and Eco ranges have been staged by Scottish paper manufacturer Curtis Fine Papers for the specification sales team for national paper merchant, The Paper Company. Held at its Guardbridge Mill,...

Swatch booked.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... To mark the popularity of James McNaughton Group's quality text and cover grade Terreus, a new swatch has been produced which illustrates the different shades and weights that are available. Terreus comes in two different finishes - Terreus...

Holmen expands recycled interests.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... In a E3m deal Holmen has acquired 38% of Llau Redmat, a French recovered paper company. The strategic acquisition reinforces the supply of raw material to Holmen's Spanish newsprint mill, Papelera Peninsular, where production is...

P2i sign web deal.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Northcliffe Electronic Publishing has signed a deal with P2i Newspapers in the US to provide web content for Northcliffe Press. P2i has been converting Northcliffe's print content for the web since the beginning of the year, but the agreement...

UK for Microspray.(Technotrans expects UK order)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Technotrans, the press dampening specialist, is confident of a UK order for its Microspray spray dampening system. Spokesman Cliff Whalley says the company has sold more than 1,000 worldwide and says there has been a big boost in interest...

Prolmage at Le Parisien.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... ProImage has installed its PDF production workflow NewsWay at Le Parisien, its tenth major publisher in France and following on from other Paris-based titles such as Le Figaro and Liberation. NewsWay is used with Krause ctp systems at Mirror...

The men in white coats may have had their day.(WRH Marketing offerings)
June 2, 2003... The cry of `Starnewsstandid!' has not been heard in London for more than 40 years, but now the surviving men in white coats may also be on borrowed time. A single copy vending machine has been on trial in London after it was launched onto...

Oce finishing line.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Hunkeler has developed a simplified finishing line for the Oce digital newspaper printer in an effort to bring down the capital cost of a start-up. It will make "out of market" digital production viable right down to a couple of hundred...

North West of Ireland is Community minded.(adds and upgrades presses)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Recent re-designs and demand for more colour has led North West Of Ireland Printing & Publishing to add a Goss Community tower to keep up with the growing demand. The first Community was installed in 1976 and a six-unit press added full colour...

Creo expresses confidence about UK sales of thermal.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... The Newsrun end to end PDF workflow and a natural replacement cycle on the horizon for early ctp platemakers are boosting Creo's confidence about thermal technology in the UK. Colin Fourmy, head of Creo UK newspaper sales, says: "The...

Tailored solutions.(HP aims to become player in printing industry)
June 2, 2003... HP argues that printing is not about cost per unit but about effectiveness per unit By Laurel Brunner HP is not a name that most UK printers would associate with commercial printing, but it will not be long before HP is more than a...

Insolvent abuse.
June 2, 2003... It seems a debtor can continue to trade on regardless after being declared bankrupt, unless his illegal activities are reported to the Prosecution Section of the Insolvency Service By Andy Allies, Debt Recovery Manager at ICSM In a...

B2 Presses: Three point plan.
June 2, 2003... Rather than bemoaning the unfavourable economic climate, B2 printers hoping to ride out the storm may be best served by seeking advice from press suppliers as the most sensible starting point for change By Rod Hayes Whenever printers get...

Profile: Charting the future.
June 2, 2003... The organisation that started to help defend the country against the perfidious French is now at the forefront of the digital revolution By Gareth Ward Some 75% of Ordnance Survey's sales come from e-business. Digitisation has made that...

Ordnance Survey: then and now.
June 2, 2003... Ordnance Survey is the national mapping agency in Britain, responsible for creating and updating the master map of the entire nation, except for Northern Ireland which has its own agency. Its roots stretch back to 1791 when the government...

Protected and pretty: the industry's got it covered.
June 2, 2003... Laminating and encapsulating are not only a means of extending the durability of a printed product but also offer a way of enhancing the visual appeal. They are services that remain much in demand among printers and designers and it is...

KBA UK - appointment.(Graham Buswell)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... * Day trips out to the south west of England are going to feature strongly for Graham Buswell now he has decided to put his excellent knowledge and practical skills of the industry to the benefit of KBA. Mr Buswell has been round the traps...

Polestar Group - appointment.(David Eccleshall)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... * David Eccleshall is now creative services director for the Polestar Group. His remit will be to develop added value services for customers, and he will be able to draw on his considerable experience built up in the nine years he has been with...

Stora Enso - appointment.(Lars-Gunnar Almryd)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... * A rather daunting career challenging position faces Lars-Gunnar Almryd in his new role as senior vice president Stora Enso transport and distribution. Outside Stora Enso, it would be anybody's guess how much of its product is in transit at...

Biddles - appointment.(John Anderson)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... * Account controller at Biddles sounds like a busy job with lots of scheduling, order preparation, quality control and troubleshooting. Who better to do this Biddles believes, than John Anderson. Possibly not surprising, for Mr Anderson has...

Adams Creative - appointment.(Sandra Warnock Horn)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... * Shifting across town from Aylesford to the downtown throbbing centre of Maidstone does not sound a step too far, but Sandra Warnock Horn knows she will be taking on some new challenges. She has left Aylesford Newsprint to join Adams Creative,...

Mark Andy - appointment.(appoints Paul Brauss president)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... * John Eulich, after a career of 20 years with Mark Andy, the last 18 of them as president, has decided to leave to pursue other interests and has opened the door to Paul Brauss to wear the president's shoes. It's not a big move for Mr Brauss...

Pryntya - appointment.(appoints three new staff members)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... * Pryntya the Redruth amalgam of several printing related businesses has appointed three new staff members. Russell Thomas has got the nod for the role of sales executive, Andy Hallam takes on the duties of sales manager while commercial...

Fespa - appointment.(Frazer Chesterman)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... * The exhibition director's role at Fespa, the screen printing group, has gone to Frazer Chesterman. His job will be to spearhead the growth of the development of Fespa's internal exhibitions department. On top of this he will have the job of...

Tenquestions: Steve Fowler.(Interview)
June 2, 2003... Steve Fowler Technical specialist (colour) Heidelberg If you were stuck on a desert island with one person in the industry, who would it be and why? Fox Talbot. I'd love to show him my digital camera. If you won the lottery, would...

KBA cuts 400 web press jobs.(Brief Article)
June 9, 2003... Just weeks after it warned that plant closures might be necessary this year (Printing World, May 26) KBA has started consulting German trade unions about 400 job cuts in its web division. KBA announced in May that first quarter sales were...

Buyer sought for G&E.(Brief Article)
June 9, 2003... Receivers appointed at G&E Digital, Peterborough, believe they have found a buyer and expect to sign contracts this week. Hacker Young, London, was called into the business on May 23, just three months after managers Murray Allan and Chris...

HMV switches to management contract.(Brief Article)
June 9, 2003... HMV has given print management the thumb's up endorsing the work that SNRG has produced during a test period for the music retailer. The deal consolidates print buying for its 160 stores across the UK and Ireland and for internal purposes...

Image consultant.(Brief Article)
June 9, 2003... Digital imaging expert Bob Marchant will run a day long event called From digital capture to proof on behalf of the Imagenetwork in London on July 7. The aim is to give photographers a better understanding of CMYK and designers and printers a...