Hosting an estimated 6,500 visitors at Messe Luzern during the 13th running of the event, which finishes on 28 February, Hunkeler is headlining a line-up of around 100 exhibitors, with the primary event focus on continuous-feed inkjet workflow, from pre-press through to print and
The five-year, £3.5m deal involves the deployment of De La Rue’s track and trace technology on 1.7bn packets of cigarettes and hand rolling tobacco sold in the UK each year.
The EU Tobacco Products Directive, Article 15, means it is now a legal requirement for all tobacco products to be traceable, in order to cut down on counterfeit products.
The digital solution will be
The manufacturer recorded total sales of $14.7bn for the three-month period to 31 January 2019, up by 1.3% year-on-year but down by 4.3% on the previous quarter.
Revenue in the firm’s printing division was down by 0.4% from $5.08bn to $5.06bn in Q1 and was down by 4.6% on the previous quarter.
Commercial hardware sales grew by 5.1% year-on-year and consumer hardware was up by 2.6% but sales of
Clarke has been replaced by chairman Jim Continenza who becomes executive chairman of the business and will take over the responsibilities of CEO.
Clarke joined Kodak five years ago in March 2014, six months after the group emerged from chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
In a Kodak statement announcing the changes, Clarke said his departure was by mutual agreement.
He said: "It was a
Chief executive and vice-chairman John Visentin provided more details of Project Own It, which aims to streamline the business, strip out costs, flatten the management structure, simplify its supply chain and increase accountability and focus on profitability.
“We had a complex
The manufacturer’s net sales for the three-month period ended 31 December 2018 came in at €579m (£509m), down from €603m in the equivalent period a year ago. But the company’s nine-month sales of €1.69m were up around 2% on nine-month sales a year prior of €1.66m.
Its order backlog in Q3 was €804m, up 16% year-on-year from
Fit4internet will serve as a hub and platform for improving digital competencies in close
Cron has established a branch in Malaysia as it seeks to expand its reach in overseas markets.
Cron Asia is located in Serdang printing industrial park, Kuala Lumpur. Here, Cron demonstrates its product portfolio, intelligent printing system, and supporting services including pre-sale, sale, after-sales training and technical support.
The CRON EZC intelligent printing system is a digital ink supply control system. Through standardization of file design, pre-press process, intelligent
R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company (RRD) (NYSE:RRD), a leading global provider of multichannel solutions for marketing and business communications, today announced the launch of Cloud Direct by RRD, a trigger-based direct marketing application — housed within Salesforce Marketing Cloud — that improves targeting and extends the Marketing Cloud platform by fully integrating digital and direct mail channels.
Available within Journey Builder, Marketing Cloud’s cross-channel customer engagement
Muir replaced long standing CEO Guy Gecht last October, and was speaking on the eve of his 100th day in the role.
He quipped that after 100 days he “would have to take responsibility for everything that happens” at the company.
Muir said he had been attracted to
The new printers are larger-format additions to the Summa F Series and expand upon the Belgian manufacturer’s existing portfolio of high-end cutters. The 3.2x3.2m F3232 will begin shipping in February 2019, with the 3.2x2m F3220 following in April.
They are designed for both textile and board applications, such as flags, banners, POS and signage.
Marketing manager Elice van Es
Commercially launched last month following several months of tests, Super Sprint has been designed to speed up the application of rubber profiles to the cutting dies.
C&T said the product maintains all of the characteristics of the original Sprintrubba in terms of longevity and on-press performance, and adds a strong self-adhesive backing.
The new acrylic-based
With the promise of an 'Explosion of Possibilities' for visitors, next year’s Fespa show will take place from 14-17 May at Messe Munich, Germany. It marks 20 years since its first appearance in the city in 1999. It has subsequently returned to Munich in 2005, 2010 and 2014, a destination which consistently ranks highly in visitor feedback.
Head of marketing Sarah Farrell said
Targeted users include commercial printers, agencies, central reprographics and marketing departments.
With the genARate Studio augmented reality tool
The manufacturer recorded total sales of $58.5bn (£45.7bn) for the 12-month period ended 31 October 2018, up from $52.1bn a year earlier. For the three-month Q4 period its revenue was up from £13.9bn a year ago to $15.4bn.
Revenue in the firm’s printing division grew from $18.7bn to £20.8bn for the full year, and from $4.86bn to $5.3bn in
India’s one of the biggest manufacturer and exporter of wide format inkjet digital printers ColorJet India has appointed Digital HiRes from Spain, as its distributor in Spain and Portugal. Digital Hires, which was set up in 1992, is one of the successful and renowned distributor in Spain, Portugal and the UK, of digital treatment of images and printing systems for the printing industry.
The Spanish company will be marketing all the variants of digital printers from ColorJet like UV, soft
MGI becomes a global OEM partner and integrates Memjet’s DuraLink printing technology into its new B1 Inkjet Printing and Embellishment Press for high-volume print and packaging markets
Memjet has announced that MGI Digital Technology, one of the leading French manufacturer of digital printing presses and finishing solutions, has integrated Memjet’s DuraLink printing technology into its new AlphaJET B1 Inkjet Printing and Embellishment Press. This is the first 40-plus-inch sheet-fed press to
In the third quarter sales were down 9.6% at €257m, although Agfa said that if discontinued businesses and currency effects were excluded, the decline was 3.8% “markedly better than in previous quarters”.
Sales at its inkjet business were up by 9% in the three months to 30 September after it booked multiple orders for the Jeti Tauro H3300 and H2500 LED wide-format printers launched in June.
Other new product launches included v11 of its Apogee workflow software and Avatar V-ZH, a no-pre-heat
Planned restructuring at the German manufacturer has racked up costs of €5m (£4.35m) in the first half of 2018/19, five times the spend in H1 2017/18, alongside the acquisition of post-press rival MBO and the partial repayment of a €55m high-yield corporate bond in July led to a dip in overall profit.
Breaking even in the same