Nessan Cleary

1 week ago | indianprinterpublisher.com | Nessan Cleary

Adobe has announced a new version of its Adobe PDF Print Engine, or APPE, now up to v7.0, with a number of prepress processes now moved directly into the rendering pipeline in the RIP itself, including multi-color transparency blending and variable data handling. At the same time, Adobe has also introduced a new platform – Adobe Print Services – which is designed to be used alongside the print engine and carries some of the workload to avoid slowing the RIP down.

1 week ago | indianprinterpublisher.com | Nessan Cleary

UK headquartered Xaar’s recent results for its last full year, ended 31 December 2024, show a company experiencing some ups and downs. This starts with revenue of £61.4 million, which was down 13% from £70.2 million in 2023. Xaar has mainly attributed this to a 27% drop in revenue at its Engineered Print Systems subsidiary, based in the US. This has let to a gross profit for the group overall of £22.22 million and an operating loss of £11.06 million.

2 weeks ago | indianprinterpublisher.com | Nessan Cleary

Materialise has released the latest version of its Magics software for the additive manufacturing market. The Magics 2025 release is said to make it possible to print parts that were previously beyond 3D printing. This claim is based upon a new ability for seamless processing of nTop implicit geometries without the need for mesh conversion in order to reduce the preparation time for complex parts.

2 weeks ago | packagingsouthasia.com | Nessan Cleary

BHS, which makes corrugating machinery, has announced a strategic commercial agreement with Agfa. This will see Agfa supply the printing engines for the BHS Jetliner range of single pass inkjet printers that can be used with the company’s corrugator production equipment. This dates back to a project that BHS began with Inca Digital, which was first announced back in 2016, at a time when Screen owned Inca.

3 weeks ago | packagingsouthasia.com | Nessan Cleary

Koenig and Bauer has released its audited financial results for 2024, alongside the claim that it has met its financial expectations, though this really isn’t the full picture despite the company having revised those expectations back in November. The upbeat tone of the accompanying press release is based on the revenue of €1,274.4 million, though this was slightly down on the previous year’s revenue of €1,326.8 million.