Author: Nessan Cleary

  • Agfa building on digital print

    Agfa building on digital print

    A few weeks ago I interviewed Pascal Juéry, CEO of Agfa, who discussed the opportunities for growth in the packaging market and reaffirmed Agfa’s commitment to large format printing. 

  • Brother bids for Roland DG

    Brother bids for Roland DG

    Brother Industries Ltd has announced its intentions to make a hostile offer to take over Roland DG though this can’t have come as a surprise to anyone involved and gives the rest of us an interesting insight into corporate acquisitions. 

  • Agfa optimistic over 2023 results 

    Agfa optimistic over 2023 results 

    Agfa has posted its full year financial results from last year, which show a marked improvement in the group’s overall position with good potential for further growth over the next few years.

  • Mimaki debuts new printer and cutter

    Mimaki debuts new printer and cutter

    Mimaki has announced a new large format printer, the JFX600-2531, and a CFX-2531 cutting table that can be paired with it to create a complete print and cut solution, which will be shown at next week’s Fespa show in Amsterdam.

  • New Kyocera KJ4B printhead

    New Kyocera KJ4B printhead

    Kyocera has announced a new printhead, the KJ4B-EX1200-RC, which has been designed for use with aqueous inks, and is targeted at commercial, packaging and textile printing applications.

  • Kongsberg targets aviation sector

    Kongsberg targets aviation sector

    Kongsberg has announced a new large format table, the C68 Exact, which takes the company beyond its traditional graphics cutting roots as this new table has been developed as a design tool for industries such as aviation

  • Revisiting the Samba printhead

    Revisiting the Samba printhead

    It’s been 10 years since Fujifilm first offered the Samba printhead to other OEMs and it’s remained a market leader throughout that time so it’s worth taking a deeper dive into the technologies behind this head.

  • Koenig and Bauer meets 2023 forecast

    Koenig and Bauer meets 2023 forecast

    Koenig and Bauer has released details of its preliminary figures for the last financial year, which show an improvement over the 2022 results and is broadly in line with the company’s forecast for 2023.

  • News Digest…February 2024

    News Digest…February 2024

    For the West, February primarily marked the second anniversary of the war in Ukraine, amplified by Donald Trump’s threat of not helping NATO allies. This means that European nations are having to increase their defence spending at a time of economic uncertainty, while also wondering just how flaky America is as an ally? 

  • Bobst boosted by 2023 results

    Bobst boosted by 2023 results

    The Bobst Group has reported its financial results for the last year showing some growth but with some reasons for caution though the group says that the supply chain situation has improved significantly since summer 2023.

  • Packaging etc at Pamex

    Packaging etc at Pamex

    This is the final part of my report from the Pamex show in Mumbai, India. The show proved to be an interesting snapshot of the Indian print market, covering a broad range of commercial print technologies, from prepress through print to finishing.

  • Pamex and narrow web solutions

    Pamex and narrow web solutions

    This is the second part of my report from the Pamex show in Mumbai, India. There’s something reassuringly familiar about the different print fairs regardless of which part of the world they are in, and this was just as true of Pamex as any other show, with the added bonus that everyone speaks good English!