News

Sector scepticism over four-day working week
Printers are hesitant to embrace a four-day working week, an idea being mooted by the TUC as way workers could benefit from increases in productivity driven by technological advances.

Europa Print & Mailing Solutions goes into liquidation
Europa Print & Mailing Solutions has gone into creditors' voluntary liquidation.

Reflex invests in new HR system to accommodate future growth
Reflex Group has invested in a new HR system aimed at modernising its people processes to facilitate its future growth strategy.

New role at Infigo for Tony Lock
Tony Lock has joined Infigo Software in the newly-created role of sales director.

Carly Press invests to go online
Carly Press has invested in Vpress’ Coreprint Pro web-to-print software to enhance its service offering to customers.

Pre-press stalwart Mike Dagger passes away
Pre-press industry veteran Mike Dagger passed away on Sunday (2 September) at the age of 64 following a long battle with cancer.

Paper prices to rise again in October
More paper price rises are on the way next month with merchants issuing letters outlining increases of up to 8% after receiving notification from the mills of the need to put prices up.

DS Smith upbeat on trading
Packaging giant DS Smith has reported trading in line with its expectations in an update relating to the period since 1 May 2018.

Printed Easy is new face of Falkland Press
Falkland Press has rebranded as Printed Easy to reflect the firm’s decision to focus wholly on online sales via its associated website.

Williams Lea Tag expands capabilities with CGI buy
Williams Lea Tag (WLT) has acquired computer-generated imagery specialist Taylor James in a move to become one of the world’s leading omni-channel marketing partners to global brands.

Royal Mail expands with Canadian buy
Royal Mail has expanded its overseas reach with the acquisition of North American parcels delivery firm Dicom Canada.

Talk Design & Print acquires Zest
Talk Design & Print has acquired commercial printer Zest’s assets and goodwill.

Xaar resets growth plans as results disappoint
Xaar has posted a 39% slump in underlying revenues and £1.1m loss for the first half of the year, leading chief executive Doug Edwards to admit that his 2020 growth target of £220m turnover is now...

ImageOn bolsters garment work with Mimaki buy
Essex-based branded clothing producer ImageOn has invested in a Mimaki CJV150-130 wide-format print-cutter, enabling it to bring colour printing in-house.

Zanders updates on insolvency
Cologne District Court has opened insolvency proceedings over German paper mill Zanders’ assets.