Wide-format

Suppliers roll out new initiatives to help coronavirus-hit printers
A number of industry suppliers have launched new initiatives to help their customers during the coronavirus pandemic, while others have updated on their current supply chain situations.

Heidelberg to cut jobs and kit portfolio amid "painful changes"
Heidelberg has begun to implement a wide-ranging “action package” to restore profitability that will see up to 2,000 jobs lost and the end of production for Primefire and very large format (VLF)...

Grafenia offers coronavirus lifeline as it reaffirms acquisition strategy
Grafenia has reminded sign and graphics businesses of its ongoing acquisition strategy as it looks to offer a lifeline to some of the industry’s companies that are struggling to stay afloat amid the...

Delta Group secures expanded Mars contract
The Delta Group has expanded its print capabilities for the Mars account following a competitive tender process.

Kaps Finishing supports litho clients with wide-format investment
Trade finisher Kaps Finishing has taken on a Yotta YD-F2513R5 wide-format flatbed printer to enable its trade litho customers to use the company as a one-stop shop for both their finishing and...

Me & My: DYSS X7-1624
Outsourcing usually works fine until the volume grows and you start to add up the costs. In a world of instant turnaround, it can add time to a job too.

Me & My: Lynx Felix Combo
On the face of it, corrugated boxes and corrugated display units are pretty much the same thing. Both often need printing of some sort, then cutting, creasing, folding, and gluing to assemble them....

Overmatter: Suits you, sir!
Newly-crowned WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury has also become an inadvertent champion for the power of custom printing.

PPM fabricates a fancy fake facade for an iconic edifice
On the north bank of the Thames, just east of Waterloo Bridge, the iconic Neoclassical facade of Somerset House is instantly recognisable. And while the Grade I listed building is currently undergoing...

Coronavirus: contagion over contagion
‘When China sneezes the world catches a cold’. It’s abundantly clear that the global spread of coronavirus COVID19 is already affecting the day-to-day lives of plenty of people in the UK, and it looks...