Agfa is extending its 11-year experience with 'chemical free' violet plates with a new product it claims is the first not to require pre-heating.

Spanish plate manufacturer Ipagsa Industrial is selling its prepress business - but not its Barcelona manufacturing facilities - to Agfa Graphics.

A partnership with Lucky HuaGuang Graphics will see the Chinese company making printing plates for Agfa Graphics using its IP.

A new version of Agfa's Apogee workflow which automates all prepress tasks is a "major step forward in production efficiency", according to the company's Erik Peeters.

Two new Agfa software modules for GCR and standardised print join the company's ECO³ programme.

A glossy event in Manila saw the launch of Kodak's Sonora and Sword Max plates in the Philippines.

Agfa says its new Adamas thermal plate will bring new levels of robustness to newspaper and commercial web applications.

AI-based deep learning has been added to Dalim's ES media production platform in what the German developer says is a significant update to last year's new version.

Claro image software developer Elpical has appointed Derek Milne as international sales and marketing manager.

A three-year contract with Kodak will see Australia's Fairfax Media switch its high-volume sites to the company's process-free Sonora News plates.

A move to "chemistry-free" Agfa plate technology is part of a multi-year supply contract at NZME's Auckland print site.

A new generation of Kodak thermal platesetters offer savings for lower-throughput users, plus new control options.

OneVision says it has struck the "perfect balance" between flexibility and automation with an upgrade of its workflow management software.

Twenty years after its first release, Enfocus has announced an update to its PitStop PDF preflight and correction software and new support arrangements.

A New York newspaper and magazine publisher is claiming good results from the use of register correction software with their 50-year-old press.

Tim Klappe has been appointed Asia Pacific managing director of prepress and workflow vendor OneVision, following roles with Ferrostaal, Norde and manroland.

Evening Post Publishing is to use ProImage's NewsWay to manage workflow at the Aiken Standard and of Charleston's Post and Courier.

Kerala giant Mathrubhumi is following press upgrades with new Krause platesetters for its ten print sites.

A platesetter which accepts two pallet-loads of plates is the latest addition to Agfa Graphics Advantage N range.

Agfa Graphics has been honoured with a European logistics excellence award for its recycling programme for aluminium plates.

New plate registration technology is being brought to the aid of Dainik Jagran, the Hindi-language daily newspaper with a claimed daily readership of 68 million.

A Kodak award for environmental platemaking has gone to Malaysia's New Straits Times Press.

Automated and integrated workflow software is said to be behind a soaring publishing efficiency at publication printer Corelio Printing in Belgium.

Apart from any future involvement in digital newspaper printing, Flint Group's acquisition of Xeikon matters to publishers as the maker of Agfa's CTP systems.

What Kodak is calling "a plate for demanding web applications" has been launched following trials at printers in Germany.