Agfa Graphics has announced that it will be closing its 250,000-sq.-ft. offset printing plate manufacturing facility in Branchburg, N.J., by the end of this year in order to optimize its global production capacity and supply chain efficiencies. The plant closure will impact 125 workers.
The 10% tariff that the Trump administration has imposed on imported aluminum is now being passed through as a surcharge by major lithographic printing plate manufacturers to their U.S. offset printing customers.
Kodak announced it will increase the price of its offset printing plates globally due to the rising price of aluminum. But just how much will plate prices increase?
Just days after Presstek was acquired by Mark Andy, Presstek’s waterless division has been spun off into a new company called Verico Technology, which will focus on expanding its market share for waterless plates and coating technologies as well as expanding its offering to new market segments.
Mark Andy announced that it has acquired Presstek. Presstek’s team of over 60 technical professionals will be integrated within Mark Andy’s service infrastructure, making it the largest, regionally-staffed service organization in North America.
When Presstek stopped making plates for the computer-to-plate system in San Bernardino Community College District's in-plant, the shop had some tough decisions to make about the fate of its offset presses.
Xitron has announced an agreement with Global Graphics Software, developer of the Harlequin RIP and parent company to RTI-RIPs.com, where on Jan. 2, 2018, Xitron acquired the Computer-to-Plate and Computer-to-Film RIP business of RTI.
Fujifilm North America will increase the prices of its offset printing plates as a result of raw material cost increases. But just how much will prices rise?
The publication of ISO 32000-2 (PDF 2.0), the latest version of the PDF specification, has been released by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). The document is a refinement of the venerable PDF format, originally published and made freely available by Adobe Systems since 1993.
The Dauphin County Library in-plant is using a Xanté Heavyweight Champion with PlateMaker 7 to print envelopes, banners and more.