Pre-Press - Computer-to-plate

MOBILE, AL—October  13, 2008—Xanté is fast becoming the hero of small and midsize prepress and print shops needing competitive, state-of-the-art technology at practical price points.  Visitors to Graph Expo booth 3429 in Chicago from October 26-29 will see the newest products and the continued expansion of Xanté as a leading single source provider of a complete line of products — including platesetters, digital color presses, all-in-one PDF workflows, plate processors, plates and chemistry — for all printing demands.

HUDSON, NH—September 29, 2008—Presstek, Inc. (Nasdaq: PRST), the leading manufacturer and marketer of digital offset printing solutions, announced today that it will be introducing to the North American market a wide range of chemistry-free CTP solutions that address the needs of the broadest range of customers in the industry. Now printing companies of all sizes can rely on a single supplier for the chemistry-free CTP solution that best meets their specific requirements for price point, productivity level and format size. Presstek will be showcasing these solutions in Booth 2811 at the Graph Expo trade show from October 26th through 29th at McCormick Place South in Chicago.

HUDSON, NH—September 17, 2008—Presstek Inc. (Nasdaq: PRST), the leading manufacturer and marketer of digital offset printing business solutions, today announced that it will be showcasing a full array of digital workflow solutions for the North American market at Graph Expo, scheduled for October 26th through 29th at McCormick Place South, Chicago.  Presstek will be located in Booth 2811 at the show.

CINCINNATI—September 15, 2008—xpedx today announced it will open the xpedx Technology Center at its metropolitan Cincinnati headquarters to provide U.S. print professionals a single location where they can learn about, test and purchase new equipment and technologies covering all aspects of offset and digital printing. The center is set to open in January 2009.

HUDSON, NH—09/12/08—At Presstek’s booth 2811, companies of all sizes will find digital solutions that offer a competitive advantage in today’s marketplace by boosting productivity and profitability, while offering environmentally friendly operations. Presstek 52DI and 34DI digital offset presses offer both conventional offset and digital printers the most profitable solution for meeting the demand for quick turnaround, high quality color printing in runs from 250 to 20,000. Capable of printing on a broad road range of substrate thickness up to 20pt., the DI supports up to 300 lpi and FM screening without incurring additional time or expense. These highly automated, environmentally-friendly DI presses combine the

CHICAGO—The Chicago Sun-Times has obtained nine Agfa Advantage CLS digital platemaking systems, as well as Arkitex workflow components that include Autoplan and Afirma for increased monitoring and automation. The Advantage CLS is a cassette-loading system with a throughput of up to 220 plates per hour.

ANN ARBOR, MI—August 21, 2008—Xitron, the prepress industry’s leading independent developer and integrator of Raster Image Processors, RIP management software and workflow solutions, today announced that its Xenith User Group meeting will be held Saturday, October 25, 2008 in conjunction with the October 26-29 Graph Expo show in Chicago. The Xenith User Group meeting will cover a variety of topics for Xenith users including: • Preview of Xitron’s latest software products to be unveiled at Graph Expo • Increasing productivity and profitability with an Adobe PDF Print Engine workflow • Integrating web-based job submission solutions • Ask The Staff: One-on-one time with Xitron Product

ROCHESTER, NY—Aug. 11—Dow Jones & Co. purchased 14 Kodak Trendsetter News 150 Thermal CTP Platesetters and 17 Kodak Prinergy Evo Workflow Systems as part of a modernization effort at six of its printing plants. Dow Jones produces The Wall Street Journal, the second largest newspaper in the country by circulation. The agreement with Kodak will bring digital CTP technology to the company’s facilities in Chicopee, Mass.; Bowling Green, Ohio; LaGrange, Ga.; Dallas; Palo Alto, Calif.; and South Brunswick, N.J. Additionally, Prinergy Evo Workflow Systems will be installed at the Dow Jones advertising services location in Orlando, Fla. “We evaluated all of the factors and

HEIDELBERG, GERMANY—08/05/2008—In the first quarter of financial year 2008/2009, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) recorded a significant improvement in incoming orders over the previous year thanks to the industry trade show drupa. In the period under review, the Heidelberg Group increased its incoming orders by around 23 percent over the same quarter the previous year to 1.151 billion Euro (previous year: 934 million Euro). As already announced on July 10, 2008, sales and earnings were significantly down on the equivalent figures for the previous year due to difficult market conditions and customers’ reluctance to invest in the run-up to drupa. Sales by the Heidelberg Group

HEIDELBERG, GERMANY—08/04/2008—Following in the footsteps of prepress and press, all current generations of electronic postpress equipment have also been covered by Heidelberg Remote Service since drupa 2008. Heidelberg thus provides Internet-based services for all value-added operations in the print shop. This makes it the only supplier in the print media industry offering solutions that can be fully maintained online. By the end of 2008, online remote diagnosis of postpress equipment will be supported for the latest generations of the Stahlfolder, Stitchmaster, Eurobind, Dymatrix and Diana product families from Heidelberg, plus POLAR brand machines. In addition, the online Remote Service module eCall will