Press Releases

Our most recent press releases:

05/08/2008  |   ECRM will introduce the MAKO 2x, MAKO 4x, and MAKO 8x platesetters, each enhanced with a more powerful 120 milliwatt laser diode that will not only adapt to promised chem-free plate offerings, but future violet plate technologies as well.


04/12/2008  |   Southern Lithoplate will market ECRM's newspaper CTP family of products. The alliance was announced in conjunction with Southern Lithoplate's launching of their first violet CTP plate called TIGER V and ECRM's North American debut of the MAKO NEWSmatic HS plus platesetter.


04/10/2008  |  


04/08/2008  |   The new MAKO NEWSmatic HS plus has more than doubled the capacity of the original NEWSmatic and can now produce up to 150 plates per hour at 1016 dpi


03/26/2008  |   In 2004, Drupa hosted 393,654 trade visitors from 122 countries (55% from countries other than Germany) and 1,862 exhibitors from 52 different countries. ECRM will be showing five new product enhancements that will pave the way for increased productivity and profits, while embracing the growing demand for "greener" alternatives. We'll be exhibiting at Drupa in Hall 9, Stand C56.


02/26/2008  |   In addition to exhibiting in the booths of our dealer partners -- Intergraph (booth #844) and Aleph Graphics (booth #514) -- we will also be sponsoring "The Future of Prepress and Digital Workflows" Conference at Graphics of the Americas.


02/20/2008  |   One of Romania's leading print companies, Print Multicolor, has praised ECRM and its Bucharest-based dealer, NESTRA Systems, for facilitating a deal with one of the country's largest newspaper publishers. As a leading manufacturer of imaging systems, ECRM supplied Print Multicolor with a MAKO NEWS, which represented the company's first and hugely significant transition to CTP.


02/08/2008  |   With an ever-growing intensity upon the environmental impact of equipment and processes, now is the time for the marketplace to make energy consumption a critical buying criterion. Our new campaign aims to show even in choosing prepress solutions there are ecological and cost-saving issues to consider.


01/09/2008  |   Nottingham-based printers Ernest Bexon & Co Ltd, has credited ECRM with its 'totally stress-free transition to CTP'. The company also praised ECRM's MAKO 8 for dramatically reducing its set-up time, immediately improving its job flexibility, enhancing its print quality and, increasing its plate production speed.


12/07/2007  |  


11/19/2007  |   In their two largest plants (86,000 square foot plant in Brisbane, California, and its 55,000 square foot printing facility in Changzhou, China), Fong Brothers Printing has benefitted from ECRM CTP workflows. Their operations are further evidence of ECRM's economical solutions consistently producing high-quality output for long printing runs. For more information about Fong Brothers Printing, visit http://fbp.com


11/07/2007  |   Newspaper cuts plate makeready time 75% and reduces waste


09/19/2007  |   Derek Sizer, ECRM Vice President, Eastern Hemisphere Business, comments, 'To date, Terem has been responsible for 90% of ECRM's total installations in Russia. The company is widely regarded as one of the leading CTP dealers in the region and is already responsible for nearly a quarter of the CTP business there.


09/17/2007  |   For several years Japan has been the world's 2nd largest producer of printing goods. IGAS 2007 is a seven-day show in the heart of Tokyo that's expected to attract over 125,000 visitors this year from 60 different countries.


09/05/2007  |   Lately, there's been a lot of confusion about workflow. ECRM wants to make it easy. WorkMates addresses the basic needs of printers to convert film-based operations into a more efficient digital workflow. Simply put, WorkMates allows them to create and handle PDF files, create imposition, proof and make plates digitally.


08/30/2007  |   Kohli Graphic Systems will be showcasing Violet CTP for newspapers at IFRA India. Ifra is now organizing the first ever IfraExpo outside of Europe. IFRA India is South Asia's premier event for the publishing industry and is co-sponsored by Indian Newspaper Society (INS). The show is targeted at senior and middle level executives from all leading newspapers of India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Middle East.


08/01/2007  |   According to Pira International Ltd (and PRIMIR), sales of prepress tools is projected to increase in the Malaysian market by almost 7.8% in the next five years, and by 19.8% throughout the Asia/Pacific region. With an expected attendance reach of 20,000 at this year's IPMEX Malaysia 2007, ECRM views this four-day event as critical to our success in this growing market.


07/25/2007  |   The Indonesian Printing Exhibition, also known as Indoprint, is the leading specialized printing exhibition in Indonesia with 10,000+ expected to attend the four-day event. Indoprint 2006 welcomed trade visitors from 15 countries with the majority coming from Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan. There was also a good turnout from Australia, China, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Germany, Korea, Netherlands, Spain and Thailand. The show has continuously helped to develop higher standards in the local printing industry. At this year's event, ECRM will exhibit MAKO NEWS in the booth of our local partner (PT. Berkat Abadi Pratama).


06/21/2007  |   According to graphic arts market research leader PRIMIR (www.primir.org), the Italian print market was valued at €18.1 billion (US$22.5 billion) in 2005, and was projected to grow by 2.2% in absolute terms throughout 2006. Digraph represented ECRM in Italy earlier this year at MedPrint 2007, exhibiting the MAKO 8 in their booth. For more information about Digraph, go to www.digraph.it.


04/19/2007  |   In a recent article, noted Newspaper consultant David Lightfoot wrote, "Today, the North American newspaper industry is entering the rapid growth phase of its conversion to computer-to-plate processing... Now, newspapers are beginning to evaluate what kind of digital workflow they want to deploy to optimize their CTP foundation." To this end, ECRM is introducing a newspaper-dedicated workflow that will enable production managers to efficiently and effectively work with PDF files in newspaper production.