News

Overmatter has heard about a few printing industry folk performing heroics over the years in order to extricate clients from sticky spots.

For a short-lived moment in the middle of the summer, football fans across England truly believed it could be coming home.

YM Group is poised to roll out a new paper wrapping option for catalogue and magazine customers who want to move away from polywrap.

PrintBig has installed a new Agfa Anapurna H3200i LED flatbed to do the work of three machines in a bid to boost productivity by up to 40%.

Smurfit Kappa has joined the paper advocacy group Two Sides.

Midland Regional Printers (MRP) will bring laminating services in-house later this year after investing £250,000 in new kit from Swedish manufacturer Lamina System.

A further chunk of LWC paper capacity is set to disappear from the European market after Burgo announced plans to convert one of its paper machines to container board.

Northamptonshire County Council’s approval of a stringent cuts proposal to save £70m has proven cause for concern among local print businesses.

Kodak has put its fast-growing Flexographic Packaging Division up for sale as it strives to find a solution to looming debt repayments.

Leeds Die Cutting (LDC) has enhanced its perfect binding and folding/creasing capabilities with the addition of two new Horizon machines from Intelligent Finishing Systems (IFS).

Printing of Hello! magazine has returned to the UK through a new deal inked with Liverpool gravure printer Prinovis.

Indigo Press has become the first printer in the world to install two Komori B2 H-UV perfectors after investing more than £1m in its second Komori LS-829P H-UV press.

McGowans has installed Ireland's first Massivit 1800 large-format 3D printer and is to launch a new brand to roll its 3D service out across Ireland, the UK and Europe.

Welshpool Printing Group (WPG) has carried out the UK’s first retrofit of an AMS Spectral XO Series UV curing module onto a Komori Lithrone S29 to speed up its turnarounds.

The UK printing industry almost exactly matched its downbeat expectations for Q2 in terms of output and orders, according to the BPIF’s latest Printing Outlook, but the forecasts for Q3 suggest some...