Business

RPS undertakes £1m upgrade
Leicester print group RPS has taken delivery of a Chromira 5x RA4 large format photo printer in response to growing demand for high quality backlit display graphics.

BarkerBlue targets Silicon Valley with wide format investment
San Mateo, Ca-based BarkerBlue recently expanded its wide format and digital printing capabilities with a range of equipment from HP and Zund as it looks to provide branding solutions to Silicon...

Quad/Graphics posts modest Q4 profit
Sussex, WI-based Quad/Graphics managed to overcome pricing pressure and a decline in sales to post a $21m Q4 net profit, reversing a $7m loss for the same period a year earlier.

US Congressmen lodge bill to abolish paperless policies
Two US Congressmen this week introduced a bipartisan resolution that seeks to reverse a recent federal push toward going paperless for a variety of information and services, ranging from income tax...

Haybrooke brings PDQ Estimating to North America
UK-based Haybrooke Associates has launched its popular print estimating solution, PDQ, to North America, and has already inked deals with two Canadian commercial printers.

Time Warner announces magazine spin-off
New York-based Time Warner is set to spin off its entire magazine division, including UK-based IPC Media, into a separate, publicly traded company.

Business inspection Reflex Labels: Doing away with the pigeonholes
Reflex Labels has done well for itself by, among other things, eschewing job titles in favour of giving staff flexibility to grow with the business

Bell Printers upgrades to new Schneider Senator guillotine
Commercial outfit Bell Printers has taken delivery of a Schneider Senator E-Line 78 from Friedheim to replace its ageing guillotine.

Macfarlane posts 27% pre-tax profit hike
UK packaging firm Macfarlane Group recorded pre-tax profits before exceptional items of 4.9m in the 12 months to 31 December despite a 2% revenue decline.

Printing.com becomes delivery partner for government loan scheme
Printing.com has signed an agreement to help deliver the government-backed Start-Up Loans scheme designed to help young people start a business.