Melville in £500k printer investment

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Event service supplier Melville has invested almost £500 000 in a large-format digital printer to enhance its graphics service, Event notes.

The new technology can print on a variety of materials, including glass, acrylic, wood, fabric and PVC, as well as recyclable materials, thereby giving it an environmental edge.

"The printer will impact right across the spectrum of work produced by Melville and will enable us to enhance the look and feel of graphics in an event and exhibiting space," said Melville graphic director Steve Comar.

IBM has acquired Datacap, a vendor of document imaging and management technology serving health care and several other industries, for an undisclosed sum, Health Data Management reports.

Datacap's imaging system enables the extraction of unstructured information in e-mail files, JPEG and GIF image files and PowerPoint presentations into usable data.

Its health care clients include BlueCross BlueShield of Arizona, Chicago Department of Public Health, and St. Vincent Hospital and Health Care Center in Indianapolis, among others.

Dead Sea scrolls scholar Bruce Zuckerman, a USC religion and linguistics professor, is using reflectance transformation imaging to examine Dead Sea scroll fragments, the Jewish Journal writes.

According to a recent article in the New Jersey Jewish Standard, Zuckerman is hoping to take his tech to Fort Worth, Texas later this month to record a fragment collection.

Last August, Zuckerman and other West Semitic Research Project members took their advanced imaging methods to a Syrian Orthodox church in Teaneck, NJ, where they photographed scroll fragments that have been locked inside the church's vault since 1949.