Printers

Gooder would like to find a home for the machines

Italian Job rescue for historic Italian printhouse's presses

Seven antique print machines have been saved from scrap by a print novice after the collapse of an artisanal Tuscan printhouse that included Jodie Foster among its clients.

Staff at Handy Brand now share a 51% stake in the business

Handy Brand moves to employee ownership structure

Labels and sticker printing specialist Handy Brand has completed an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT) scheme that will meant its employees own a majority share of the business.

Bluetree: mask and print ops now individual trading entities

Bluetree separates mask wing

Bluetree Group has implemented a new corporate structure and holding company to reflect the new shape of the business since it began making surgical masks.

Paul and Emma Marsh opened the Basingstoke facility this week

THEMPC opens UK digital print studio and European ops hub

THEMPC has opened a digital printing studio, production facility and warehouse in Hampshire and an operations hub in Munich, Germany that will support its EU customers.

Pindar Scarborough: five web presses and a big bindery

Industry awaits Walstead decision on what's next for YM web kit

Walstead’s deal to buy at least seven web offset presses from the collapsed YM web division has resulted in feverish industry speculation about what happens next.

Scanlon: customer demand and future volumes are key

Walstead seals deal for YM web assets

Walstead Group has acquired most of the assets of YM Group’s shuttered web offset businesses in administration – and could reboot one of the factories if customer support makes it viable.

Access to Whitehall Park site was blocked

Drama at Lettershop as landlord takes charge

Events at troubled YM Group took a dramatic turn over the bank holiday weekend when the landlord repossessed Lettershop’s Leeds site.

Andrew Ainsworth was found guilty of conspiring to produce counterfeit currency. Image: Kent Police

Fourth member of £12m counterfeit currency group jailed

A fourth member of an organised crime group has been jailed for conspiring to supply more than £12m of counterfeit banknotes.

Blog: Tangled web powerplay

Jo Francis wonders what will happen next in the latest saga involving UK web offset printers.

Flint: costs have to be passed on if supplies are to be maintained

Flint brings in monthly surcharge

Flint Group’s Commercial Publication Web (CPW) division has announced that it is introducing a monthly surcharge for web offset printers worldwide due to “hyperinflation” of ink costs.