The incident happened at the print firm’s facility on Drayton Industrial Estate in Norwich, when a 44-year-old employee opened a service compartment on a press to make an adjustment. As he leaned in, he slipped and put his hand out, which then got caught in an unguarded moving part of the press. The employee received hospital treatment and was unable to return to his job for three months. A subsequent Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation found that a fixed metal guard had been removed by other employees five weeks earlier, from the service compartment in question. Swallowtail pleaded guilty at Norwich Magistrates’ Court on 28 August to breaching health and safety at work regulations and was fined £6,700 and ordered to pay £3,030 in costs and a £120 victim surcharge. HSE Inspector Paul Unwin said: “This incident was entirely foreseeable and therefore preventable. The risks to employees from exposed machinery are well known. “Had Swallowtail Print met its duties, it would not have been possible for the employee to have accessed moving parts of machinery in this way and an injury would not have occurred.”...

The incident happened at the print firm’s facility on Drayton Industrial Estate in Norwich, when a 44-year-old employee opened a service compartment on a press to make an adjustment. As he leaned in, he slipped and put his hand out, which then got caught in an unguarded moving part of the press. The employee received hospital treatment and was unable to return to his job for three months. A subsequent Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation found that a fixed metal guard had been removed by other employees five weeks earlier, from the service compartment in question. Swallowtail pleaded guilty at Norwich Magistrates’ Court on 28 August to breaching health and safety at work regulations and was fined £6,700 and ordered to pay £3,030 in costs and a £120 victim surcharge. HSE Inspector Paul Unwin said: “This incident was entirely foreseeable and therefore preventable. The risks to employees from exposed machinery are well known. “Had Swallowtail Print met its duties, it would not have been possible for the employee to have accessed moving parts of machinery in this way and an injury would not have occurred.”...

APPE 3 features a number of enhancements over earlier incarnations, most notably a new RIP architecture, Mercury, which was developed specifically to drive high-speed digital presses. Mercury features a scalable, parallel-processing framework, which the company said boosted “RIP horsepower and dynamically balances processing loads across available devices”. It can also support continuously streamed PDF and PDF/VT in high-speed environments such as transpromo and high-volume transactional print. According to Adobe, it also renders content in a way to match Reader and Acrobat XI that “ensures predictability and eliminates unwelcome surprises”. Fujifilm has become the first vendor to utilise Mercury architecture, with the launch of v5.5 of its XMF workflow. However, Adobe said that Canon, EFI, Kodak, Screen and Xeikon would also be launching Mercury-powered systems in the coming months. “With PDF Print Engine 3, Adobe continues to demonstrate our leadership in print – 30 years after launching PostScript and igniting the Desktop Publishing revolution. Faster processing and greater predictability translate directly into higher profits for our partners’ customers: the printers of the world,” said Naresh Gupta, senior vice-president of Adobe’s Print and Publishing Business Unit....

APPE 3 features a number of enhancements over earlier incarnations, most notably a new RIP architecture, Mercury, which was developed specifically to drive high-speed digital presses. Mercury features a scalable, parallel-processing framework, which the company said boosted “RIP horsepower and dynamically balances processing loads across available devices”. It can also support continuously streamed PDF and PDF/VT in high-speed environments such as transpromo and high-volume transactional print. According to Adobe, it also renders content in a way to match Reader and Acrobat XI that “ensures predictability and eliminates unwelcome surprises”. Fujifilm has become the first vendor to utilise Mercury architecture, with the launch of v5.5 of its XMF workflow. However, Adobe said that Canon, EFI, Kodak, Screen and Xeikon would also be launching Mercury-powered systems in the coming months. “With PDF Print Engine 3, Adobe continues to demonstrate our leadership in print – 30 years after launching PostScript and igniting the Desktop Publishing revolution. Faster processing and greater predictability translate directly into higher profits for our partners’ customers: the printers of the world,” said Naresh Gupta, senior vice-president of Adobe’s Print and Publishing Business Unit....

Edinburgh-based Editions trades as Editions Financial and specialises in content marketing for clients in the financial sector. Communisis has paid £5.87m for the firm made up of cash and £1.7m worth of newly-issued shares. The total consideration is £7.1m including cash acquired with the Editions business. Editions Financial posted sales of £2.6m and a pre-tax profit of £500,000 in the year to 31 August 2012. Communisis chief executive Andy Blundell said the Editions offering and specialism in financial services was “uncannily close to the strategic sweet spot” for the group. “The key part is the analytics behind their content management offering, along with content creation and the delivery of that,” he said. “It all fits with the trend towards providing content that is sufficiently relevant and interesting for people to look at.” Editions Financial employs 31 and its services include digital marketing, social media, apps, video and print including customer magazines and direct mail. Founders Caspian Woods and Ruth Stewart-Simpson will remain with the business for at least two years. Blundell said the acquisition would be earnings-enhancing, and analysts have upgraded their profit forecasts for the group for the 2014/2015 financial year. He said there was considerable growth potential for Editions, as part of an integrated group offering: “We’ve got plans for ongoing revenue growth of 20%-plus a year with this business and we think we can achieve that.” The deal means that Communisis has now spent the £20m it gained through a rights issue earlier this year. “We’ve absolutely delivered on what we said we’d do,” Blundell added. He said further M&A deals remained possible. Communisis’ share price has slipped from its 52-week high of 68p over the past two months, but was up 1.5p today at 56.5p....