News

St Ives has put out its second positive trading update in as many months, resulting in an upturn in the group’s share price.

Reflex Group is in the final stages of a re-equip of its label division that has seen £9m invested in 2017 and is intended to combat rising input costs and standardise production.

The order book for Heidelberg’s Primefire 106 is full for the next two years, as the first beta machine goes into production.

Global affairs magazine and brand Monocle has launched a new newspaper, the Monocle Summer Weekly, with the first of four issues hitting newsstands today (10 August).

KJS Print to Mail Services has become the first UK printer to take the newly launched Xerox Versant 3100.

Cardiff Printing Company (CPC) appears to have closed.

Prestige Printing division Raffle Tickets Direct has invested around £80,000 in a new Polar N92 Plus guillotine to reduce makereadies, along with a secondhand Agfa platesetter.

Xaar is planning a further change to its board structure when the firm’s chief operating officer retires next year.

Transport for London (TFL) was forced to recall almost 500,000 tube maps and posters last summer after printing a large batch with a mistake.

Drytac has expanded its SpotOn range of self-adhesive materials with the new SpotOn White M50 film.

Johnston Press and Trinity Mirror have reached agreement on new “mutually supportive” multi-year printing contracts.

Impact Air Systems technical sales manager Terry Ward has passed away, aged 53.

Large-format specialist Your Print Partner (YPP) has invested around £500,000 in four new Mimaki dye-sublimation printers, thereby becoming the UK’s biggest Mimaki house.

Antalis has launched its new E-Photo range of papers, which it says will “revolutionise the vividness and quality of photo-based printed products”.

Textile and fashion designer Richard Quinn has used a newly acquired Epson SureColor to print textiles and wall coverings for a stage at the recent Port Eliot festival.