Investment & installations

Genie Printing ups insertion capacity
Birmingham-based Genie Printing has taken on a third Neopost inserting line to handle an upturn in capacity.

Last Bros to merge and invest
Last Bros is to merge its two subsidiaries, Last Bros (Tabs Direct) and Last Bros (Labels), to form one company, along with initiating a £350,000 kit investment.

Rotary early adopter of new Versant
Midlands-based Rotary Printers has become the third printer to take the new Xerox Versant 180 digital press.

Showcard upgrades fulfilment division
Large-format POS printer Showcard Print has invested in new kit for its fulfilment and logistics department, in a £200,000 spend.

Communisis opens new digitisation facility
Communisis has invested in a new processing facility for its ECM Connect digitisation platform in Leeds.

Sprintprint races to boost digital
Commercial printer Sprintprint has installed a Konica Minolta AccurioPress C2060L to upgrade its digital facility.

One Digital brings finishing processes in-house
Commercial and wide-format printer One Digital has invested around £20,000 in a Foliant Vega 400A laminator with foiling unit to bring laminating and foiling in-house.

First Paige opts for Versant
Midlands-based commercial printer First Paige has taken delivery of a Xerox Versant 80 digital press.

MTC in HP 3D first
The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) has become the first UK organisation to take HP’s Jet Fusion 4200 3D printer.

GHP goes bespoke with in-house production line
Grosvenor House Papers (GHP) has set up its first book printing production line with the installation of a Konica Minolta bizhub press to run inline with a Watkiss bookletmaker.