Sheetfed

Sun Chemical boosts food safe colour options

Sun Chemical has added a new shade to its direct food contact inks for sheetfed offset that will significantly boost the available colour palette for that type of print work.  

Long press configurations are a growing trend for packaging customers

WestRock turns to Heidelberg for two more mega-presses

WestRock has installed two huge Heidelberg Speedmaster presses – including the world’s biggest long perfector yet with a whopping 20 units – at its European platform.

RDCP's Sameer Rizvi with co-founder Iryna Dubylovska

Sales boom at Ancient House

Sales at Ancient House Printing Group have increased by well over 20% for the second year running.

New Speedmaster has dramatically reduced space needed for WIP

LED-UV Speedmaster helps the work flow at Tradeprint

Tradeprint has completed a £6m investment in its litho and wide-format production setup, and has taken the wraps off an LED-UV Push-to-Stop spec Speedmaster XL 106 that is unique in the UK.

The Bluprint team celebrated 20 years on 1 July

Bluprint celebrates 20 years

Print consumables and parts supplier and manufacturer Bluprint has celebrated its 20th birthday.

CEO Ludwin Monz with CFO Tania von der Goltz

Heidelberg looks to add value, mulls fresh digital options

Heidelberg has announced a new value creation programme alongside its year-end results, along with a hint that it could return to the commercial digital printing market with its own product.

Gotha's biggest web press is a 96pp Sunday 5000

Walstead expands with German buy

Walstead Group has made its first buy in Germany with the acquisition of GD Gotha Druck und Verpackung out of insolvency.

Podmore (second left): "The real advantage is it’s a modern machine."

Windles fires up new Rapida

Windles Group has installed its first Koenig & Bauer press as the greetings card specialist ramps up its sustainability push.

Sutton receiving his award. Left to right: Sagawa, Sutton, Kajita

Komori's Sutton to retire

Neil Sutton will retire at the end of this month after a near-30-year career at Komori, and has received a Lifetime Achievement Award as part of his send-off.

Fujifilm's new platesetters come with a remote monitoring service to save time on repairs

Fujifilm launches new thermal platesetters

Fujifilm has launched a new range of Luxel thermal platesetters for offset plate production, putting a total of five new machines on the market.