Printing World articles from June 2004

Printing World archives from June 2004

Fastnet fumes at `blatant' rip-off.
June 3, 2004... Michael Bannister, director of Mitcham's Fastnet Finishing, is fuming about losing money to liquidated Kent Finishers, which is now trading as Kent Laminating. "I have never been set up in such a blatant way before," he says, after losing...

Dumping judgement.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... Copyright: CMP Information Ltd. US courts have upheld the #31.6m awarded to Goss International after Japanese press manufacturer TKS was found guilty of dumping presses in the US. The Japanese company sought leave to appeal against the...

Presstek at Perivan.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... AB Dick has installed a Presstek Dimension 400 at Perivan London. It will run alongside the DPM 2610 polyester platemaker, also supplied by AB Dick three years ago at its Stratford factory. Production manager Alan Bullock says that it was...

Asda campaign.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... Asda kicks off Euro 2004 with in store print campaign from Bezier. Motion sensitive cardboard cutouts of Michael Owen, who is signed up as the face of the campaign, will be in the stores and will people moving around them will activate cheers....

Print room smoke damage.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... The print room of the Scotsman and the Edinburgh Evening News has suffered severe smoke damage after a fire. The fire began in the Caledonian Offset ventilation ducting during the afternoon last Tuesday and it took firefighters five hours to...

Big three fare better than expected.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... The `big three' press manufacturers - Heidelberg, MAN Roland and KBA - all reported better than expected sales figures at Drupa, indicating an improved outlook for the industry. Heidelberg's ceo Bernhard Schreier was pleased to see orders...

Print blamed for late postal ballot papers.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... More than 440,000 postal ballots for the European and council elections missed the June 1 delivery deadline due to printing difficulties, prompting opposition parties to call the postal pilot scheme "a disgrace". Paragon Group UK, a...

Repro City takes first UK Ryobi 750.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... Hackney printer Repro City is to replace two older Heidelberg MOs with what will be the first Ryobi 750 installed in the UK. The six-colour press is expected to arrive in July, ahead of a machine destined for Herbert Walker. It marks a...

Latest version of Colour Selector.(EBB Colour Selector)(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... Elliott Baxter has released the latest version of its EBB Colour Selector. Aimed primarily at printers, the Colour Selector came into being as an aid to identifying and selecting the colour of paper, particularly over the phone. Mike...

Babs warning.(Babs International)(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... Babs International, UK distributor of Ideal guillotines has issued a warning that from next year it will be unable to support electric machines that pre-date 1995 EC safety regulations. Although maintenance of the ten-year plus machines...

Cherlyn has successful Drupa.(Cherlyn Electronics )(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... Cherlyn Electronics had a very successful Drupa with its exhibition of the Pantone Formula Scales. Sales of the scales outstripped all expectations and two emergency shipments of scales were needed. `Much of the interest came from emerging...

Medica Packaging facilities.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... Medica Packaging in Crewe is to extend its production facilities with the installation of a six-colour Lithrone LS640C with coater. The company supplies the pharmaceutical and health care markets. Managing director John Beardmore says the trend...

Innovation Award.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... M-real has won the German Printing Industry's Innovation Award in recognition of its advertising campaign for the silver digital paper range. The award was presented on May 14 at Drupa. M-real impressed the jury with the originality and...

Minister promises Euro Packaging probe.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... The government's employment relations minister, Gerry Sutcliffe, has said there will be an investigation into the dispute between workers and management at Euro Packaging, Birmingham. The promise comes after a coach load of employees...

Irish titles move out of Cork.(Thomas Crosbie Holdings)(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... The Irish Examiner and 12 other titles belonging to Thomas Crosbie Holdings are to be printed at a new plant close to Cork from the end of 2005. The company will be leaving behind its 27-year-old Crabtree Crusader press and city centre...

No decision on Avarto.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... Arvato, the media services and printing company wholly owned by German media giant Bertelsmann, was unable this week to give confirmation that it will be building a gravure facility in Liverpool despite ongoing discussions between the parties...

Dolphin buys Speedmaster.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... Dolphin Print owners Paul and Lorraine Smith bought a Speedmaster SM52E at Drupa. The company is switching from a four-colour GTO to a five- colour SM52E in a bid to speed throughput by sealing and to be able to offer its customers the option...

JMCL appointment.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... JMCL Consulting has strengthened its procurement and print and document capability with the appointment of John Malone. Mr Malone has previous senior group procurement manager with HBoS where he was responsible for unifying and rationalising...

Canon sponsorship.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... Canon has renewed its sponsorship of the printer friendly button and page on Streetmap.co.uk. This partnership has helped save 3.4m sheets of paper from being printed as the button means users print just one page featuring the map. The printer...

Newest Repro Desk Server.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... Oce has introduced its newest version of the Oce Repro Desk Server, 1.6, which provides enhanced benefits to Autocad users and reprographic firms. For the first time a single server platform supports the entire Oce TDS range of large format...

Clays buys first six-colour.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... Clays of Bungay has bought its first six-colour press, a Lithrone LS640 with coater, to enable it to print covers and jackets more efficiently. The new press will arrive in September and join four B2 Lithrones and a B1 Lithrone. Clays...

Bahson is first with twin perfectors.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... Leeds company Bahson is aiming for the premier league of sheetfed printers by becoming the first Yorkshire company with two long perfectors. "We will be the first company in the north to have this capacity," says sales director Gavin...

Polestar steps up recruitment.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... Polestar Group has appointed Holbrook Associates to handle the company's recruitment needs. Under the management of ex-employee Rebecca Holloran, Holbrook Associates will lead three further preferred supplier agencies: Adderley...

Sun Chemical appointment.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... Charles Murray, corporate vice president and managing director, Sum Chemical Europe will now lead all Sun Chemical businesses in the UK and Ireland incorporating news inks, liquid inks for packaging, publication gravure, heatset, sheetfed and...

New multifunctional system.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... Ikon Office Solutions has launched the Ikon CPP8050E, a new multifunctional system designed for the specific colour output requirement of applications found in offices or departments. It features technology from leading manufacturers including...

Free update.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... Extensis has announced a free update to the Font Reserve Server product line, extending the capabilities of its workgroup font management solution. Font Reserve Server 1.7 for Mac OS X and Windows offers compatibility updates, scalability and...

First magazines for viewing on mobile phones.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... Mobile content producer Sendandsee has produced what it claims to be are the world's first magazines for viewing on mobile phones. The Finnish company is launching three weekly titles this month. Each magazine will contain at least 16 pages of...

Leeds Modern Apprenticeship.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... Leeds College of Technology is offering support for employers of school and college leavers through its Modern Apprenticeship in `Installing and Supporting IT systems'. The apprenticeship takes 18 months to complete. Modern Apprenticeships are...

Curtis confirms mill closure at Dalmore.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... Curtis Fine Papers has confirmed that it will close its Dalmore Mill, near Edinburgh (Printing World, April 29), after employees voted to accept an enhanced redundancy package which will involve 30 of the 127 jobs being transferred to the...

Presstek praise.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... Presstek has announced that it exceeded its business and strategic objectives during Drupa. The company exhibited breakthrough imaging and plate technologies including Presstek's ProFireExcel, SureFire and ProSpot imaging technologies. ...

In the frame.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... Art critic Jack McLean joins artist Ann Edgar and Bailie Jean McFadden of Glasgow City Council at an exhibition of the artist's work in Glasgow, which has been sponsored by the Ormolu Group. Its subsidiary Pillans & Waddies operates from sites...

Range of non-vocational courses from Pindar.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... Pindar employees are being given the opportunity to brush up on their life skills after the print solutions company announced it would be running a range of courses in association with local educational establishment Pindar School. The...

50th year of service.(bindery manager at Wyndeham Gait)(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... Mr Major Phillips-Bark, bindery manager at Wyndeham Gait in Grimsby is celebrating his 50th year of service with the company. Mr Phillips-Bark stared work at Albert Gait on May 3, 1954 and his employment has covered three generations of working...

Top award for software.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... Software Shelf International, an American and British software development and marketing company has announced that its flagship product, Print Manager Plus has won the Sumbelt W2K News top award for print management software. The award was...

Ghent PDF workgroup.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... Three new members are joining the Ghent PDF workgroup. The French Printing Federation, representing 1,300 printing companies, The Flemish Innovation Center for Graphic Communication, representing 250 members in Belgium and the UK's Periodical...

UK Trades Confederation support.
June 3, 2004... The UK Trades Confederation is financially supporting its members to allow them to move into e-business, by offering free web design and e- mail facilities. The confederation is also offering members the opportunity to be able to trade online...

Cooper Clegg has BBC make over mag.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... Cooper Clegg has won the contract to print What to Wear, the BBC's latest women's magazine. The launch follows the success of a free What to Wear sampler bagged with last December's issue of Eve. Cooper Clegg will print 150,000 copies of...

MetalFX licence at Drupa price.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... Encore Direct was among many hundred of companies that ordered MetalFX licences at Drupa. MetalFX managing director Andrew Ainge says he was not surprised by the show's lack of UK visitors. He feels UK printers are waiting for clients to...

WH Smith at centre of magazine stocking row.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... Specialist magazines may be taken off the shelves and hit by stock reductions as WH Smith reviews shelf selling space. The Periodical Publications Association has written to WH Smith chief executive Kate Swann to express its concern at the...

Ipex starts marketing.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... Drupa is hardly cold and up pops Ipex, distributing its first marketing material ahead of the show in two years' time. A key innovation for the event is an extensive website being promoted as the world's first Internet trade show for the...

Delta picks up prepress from Turning Point.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... Point of sale specialist Delta Group has invested in prepress equipment from Turning Point Technologies as part of a major upgrade in litho capacity. Two Luscher Xpose 180 VLF platesetters are planned to link into Dalim's Twist Impose...

Vutek appointment.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... Vutek has appointed Kevin Sykes as vice president of worldwide sales. Mr Sykes previously held the position of national sales director, North America for Vutek. Prior to joining Vutek he was regional sales director for Adobe Systems and...

Polar appointment.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... Rolf Brand has taken over as new marketing director at Polar. He replaces Erhard Hennemann who is retiring after 42 years of service in the company's marketing department. Mr Brand has been assistant to the managing directors at Polar since...

Non-exclusive agreement.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... Grasmere Digital Imaging has reached a non-exclusive agreement with Card Corporation's original licensor, Ivor Solution. Print Potential, developed for print management companies, will continue to remain GDI's core product. The agreement gives...

Print Media appointment.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... Patricia Sorce has been appointed chair of the School of Print Media at Rochester Institute of Technology's College of Imaging Arts and Sciences in the US. Currently co-director of the Printing Industry Center, Ms Sorce will supervise...

Free software upgrades.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... Xerox is to provide free software upgrades to all owners of its DocuColor 5252 digital printing presses. The V2.0 software assesses different stock weights and pumps out paper quicker in the mid to heavy stock ranges giving improved...

Optecon reacts to Energywatch.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... Optecon has set up a new service following the Energy Regulator's Energywatch, recommendations that companies should supply customers with annual statements. Optecon was originally formed as a joint venture between Royal Mail and Opus and...

Heidelberg teams up for JDF commitment.
June 3, 2004... Heidelberg has demonstrated its commitment to JDF by announcing that it is linking up with Shuttleworth and OCSL. Drupa proved the catalyst for Heidelberg and OCSL to establish a JDF highway between products. This link, which will be...

Swan targets gravure and flexo with pigments.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... A new source of dispersed colour pigments is targeting gravure and flexo packaging printers. Thomas Swan & Co, Consett, is aiming to be competitive with inhouse formulations in price, but will offer a more reliable quality that pre-...

Delphax sees Drupa leads and visitors up.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... With stand visitor numbers up 30% and verified sales leads climbing by 80%, Delphax says that Drupa 2004 was the best in its history. The company reached the figures by monitoring stand attendance and only recording those showing a serious...

Date for SPEF.(Scottish Print Employers Federation)(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... This year's agm of the Scottish Print Employers Federation will be held at the Moat House Hotel in Glasgow on June 22, starting at 10.30am. The guest speaker at the lunch will be Professor Donald MacRae, who is an economist with Lloyds TSB...

Olympic newspapers available on-demand.
June 3, 2004... Visitors and competitors at the 2004 Olympic games in Athens will be able to read the latest news in a familiar format thanks to on-demand digital production techniques. Both Nipson and Oce are teaming up with various publishing and...

Bezier pulls down information on shelf.
June 3, 2004... Bezier has used newly designed `InfoShades' in its latest nationwide marketing campaigns for Dulux Weathershield and Allied Bakeries. InfoShades developed and patented by US firm Ad-Tech is a new way of providing information at the point...

DMA website.(direct mail industry)(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... The direct mail industry in association with environmental campaign group Planet Ark has developed a new website to help minimise waste from unwanted direct mail. The website, www.ControlYourPost.co.uk, comes on the back of findings from...

SM52 for Herts & Essex.(six-colour Speedmaster SM52 )(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... Herts & Essex Printers is installing a six-colour Speedmaster SM52 with expandable transfer cylinders which will allow it to handle stocks up to 0.6mm. The press is also equipped with Vario dampening and short path inking. Brothers Mick...

COMMENT: Obesity is printing's gain.
June 3, 2004... Hooray for the government. At long last it seems that it maybe is about to do something for the printing industry, albeit without intending to. We refer of course to much discussed plans to ban the television advertising for junk food aimed at...

Letter from news editor: Jim Larkin looks back at six years in print.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... It will come as a huge relief to anyone who has tried to get Printing World to pay attention to their press release to learn that this is my last week as news editor before I move to a different magazine within CMP Information's sprawling...

Hollinger shortlist.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... Price concerns have led US venture capital firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts to pull out of the race for Hollinger International. German publisher Axel Springer is also out of the running following a rejection of its #550m bid, which was deemed...

Lagardere extends talks.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... Lagardere, the world's largest magazine publisher, has extended talks with Wendel Investissement over the sale of its 60% stake in the publishing company Editis. The deal, which has been forced by the European Commission, could create France's...

British economic growth.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... Despite hopes that British economic growth would demonstrate a slight upturn in the first quarter of 2004, figures remained at a steady 0.6%. Financial analysts had expected that figures would climb to 0.7% but believe that the level is still...

Mayr-Melnhof acquisitions.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... Mayr-Melnhof Packaging, a leading Romanian supplier of folding cartons, has extended its European market presence by acquiring competitor Rodata, together with Polish supplier Poligram. The purchase of Poligram allows Mayr-Meinhof Packaging to...

Royal Mail in the black.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... Royal Mail thrust itself into the black this week, posting a #417m turnround in profits. However, the business is being threatened with an #80m compensation bill, together with possible fines from the postal regulator as it failed to achieve 15...

De La Rue rises on the back of Iraq contract.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... Yearly profits at De La Rue increased by 21% as the banknote printer was lifted by a large contract to supply currency to Iraq. The deal brings De La Rue in line with analyst forecasts and has helped to offset the downturn the company has...

SMEs starting to look up.(Small and medium manufacturing)(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... Small and medium manufacturing businesses are feeling relatively upbeat, reporting the fastest pace of growth in new orders since 2001, according to a CBI survey published this week. The survey quizzed 698 companies with fewer than 500...

Lazards hastens sale of Telegraph.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... The sale of the Daily Telegraph and with it West Ferry Printers came a step nearer last week with Lazard's decision to sell the British end of the Hollinger International business, apart from the other assets of the publishing empire once...

Videojet cements laser coding offering with Alltec acquisition.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... Alltec, a manufacturer of laser systems for coding and marking applications, has been acquired by Videojet Technologies. The move extends Videojet's offering and provides the company with a strong footing in the growing laser coding market....

HP trumps profits with record Drupa.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... After reporting record profits in its imaging and printing business for the second quarter, HP also claims to have made record sales for a Drupa exhibition. The figures for the company's digital publishing solutions surpassed expectations...

Heidelberg outsources IT area to HP.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... In a deal worth E30m over five years, Heidelberg is to outsource part of its IT infrastructure to HP services. The contract will see HP manage the SAP enterprise software for around 7,000 Heidelberg employees, some of whom will be...

Compulsory winding up.(Orbit Mailing Ltd)(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... The following case is due to be heard at the Royal Courts of Justice, Strand, London WC2A 2LL * Orbit Mailing Ltd 18 Castle Street, Dover, Kent CT16 1PW on June 9 at 10.30am. Petition by Inland Revenue Copyright: CMP Information Ltd.

Appointment of liquidators.
June 3, 2004... * Adpads Ltd Previous company name Gainwork Ltd Printing stationery. Liquidators: RD Smailes and SB Ryman, Rothman Pantall & Co, Clareville House, 26-27 Oxendon Street, London SW1Y 4EP Copyright: CMP Information Ltd.

Meetings of creditors.
June 3, 2004... * WP Print Services Ltd at Kay Johnson Gee, Griffin Court, 201 Chapel Street, Manchester M3 5EQ on June 15 at 12 noon * Moorprint (Services) Ltd at Leonard Curtis & Co, One Great Cumberland Place, Marble Arch, London W1H 7LW on June 2 ...

Notice to creditors.
June 3, 2004... * Laserprint (Southwest) Ltd) t/a Kall Kwik Printing Centre Creditors to send claims to RA Segal, A Segal & Co, Albert Chambers, 221-223 Chingford Mount Road, London E4 8LP by June 28 Copyright: CMP Information Ltd.

Final meetings.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... * Ribbleview Print & Design Ltd at Suite 508, Daisyfield Business Centre, Appleby at 11.15am for members and at 11.15am for creditors * Venture In Print Ltd at Gibson Booth, 12 Victoria Road, Barnsley S70 2BB on July 15 at 10.30am for...

Chantry and BBC make for the perfect match.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... Polestar Chantry in Wakefield is helping support England's football team by printing BBC Magazines one-off Match of the Day magazine, BBC MOTD Euro 2004. The 132-page guide to this summer's Euro 2004 championships went on sale on May 26...

Q&A Is a cartel fixing the price of paper?
June 3, 2004... Why did the raids take place? The European Commission wants to discover whether there is a cartel in place which is fixing the price of paper. Consequently in an attempt to uncover evidence of this, the EC mounted raids on the offices of...

Getting there: David Carey.(Interview)
June 3, 2004... What has been the best moment of your career? I could say getting #20 per week as a qualified printer, but probably it was as md of DisplayCraft and with eight owners in six years my job was keeping the team together. What was the one...

Why buy: Vector TX52.(Product/Service Evaluation)
June 3, 2004... The Vector TX52 thermal metal ctp system may come in at the #50,000 mark, but consider the fact that it turns out up to 23 plates an hour and operates without a processor and it could prove a very shrewd investment By Rod Hayes ...

To buy or not to buy.(Vector TX52 )(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... That there are some real questions over the Vector TX52 is natural for any new ctp system. * Commitment AB Dick says interest is strong and it plans to make around 50 for the UK market in the course of the next year. However, it is...

MAKING A DIFFERENCE: 900 reasons to be cheerful.
June 3, 2004... Delta's investments in MAN Roland has helped to add to its reputation for delivering the goods on time By Tom Hawkins For a company that is only 13 years old, Delta Group has come a long way. The display and point-of-sale printer began...

Duty of care.
June 3, 2004... The industry may have dismissed the need for a training levy, but the requirement for a systematic form of funding for training cannot be ignored By Gareth Ward The decision to reject a levy as a means of funding vocational training...

Original sin.(International Conference on Software Maintenance)
June 3, 2004... ICSM is battling to protect suppliers and originators by getting the law changed to prevent unscrupulous customers taking advantage of them By Andy Allies, debt recovery manager at ICSM in association with Anne Copley of the BPIF's legal...

Asbestos warning.
June 3, 2004... How to deal with the new laws on asbestos that came into effect on May 21 and could have far reaching effects By John Davies, head of business law at the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants Asbestos is a naturally occurring...

The BPIF's asbestos advice.(British Printing Industries Federation )(Brief Article)
June 3, 2004... The BPIF has been advising companies about the legislation for 12 months now and has conducted over 25 surveys, to ensure that all members are aware of, and take action to comply with, the impending asbestos legislation. BPIF National...

Do the reel thing.
June 3, 2004... Heidelberg's CutStar was in the ascendancy at Drupa with a growing number of printers seeing the productivity advantages of the reelfed press By Catherine Carter Heidelberg's CutStar reel to sheet systems enjoyed keen interest at...