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DES and Austrian Post unveil new UK premises
Direct Entry Solutions (DES) and Austrian Post have officially opened their new premises.
TPS upgrades digital ops with Linoprint buy
TPS Print has upgraded its digital print portfolio with a Linoprint CP press from Heidelberg to increase the range of formats it can offer and reduce running costs.
Shadow economy helps prop up demand for cash
De La Rue is confident that UK demand for banknotes is unlikely to decline in the long term as the Bank of England (BoE) publishes an analysis of future demand.
HP Inc talks up graphics growth potential
HP Inc has packaging in its sights as a key growth market for its digital printing presses.
Huge estate sale of Felix Dennis's assets
The upcoming sale of the assets of the late publishing magnate Felix Dennis includes Eric Gill engravings, a collection of rare books and a Rolls-Royce Silver Spur.
Staff evacuated after blaze breaks out at printer
Firefighters have put out a fire at an industrial printing facility in Bristol.
Future printers could be robots
There’s good news and bad news for printing industry workers in a new study about the likelihood of robots taking over from humans in certain jobs.
Cliftons invests more than £1m on new machinery
Trade print finisher and book binder Cliftons is targeting double-digit year-on-year growth after investing more than £1m in a range of new equipment.
Woodford kit goes up for auction
Woodford Litho’s equipment will be sold off by Sanderson Weatherall, via an online auction and private treaty sale.
Overmatter: PassIT! on
The final phase of the year-long fundraising campaign for PrintIT! is underway and it involves a 565km run – the equivalent of running to, gulp, Drupa.
DC Thomson Streams UK first with bespoke Broons
The Sunday Post newspaper ran a special £10,000 competition in a comic strip insert featuring the paper’s popular characters The Broons. Individual codes were printed in each of 210,000 copies of the...
Kube Print invests £1.3m in site move and Speedmaster
Financial printer Kube Print has used the move to larger and more modern premises as an opportunity to invest in a new Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 75 and a Ricoh Pro C5100.
Callprint invests further in HP; eyes acquisitions
Callprint has invested in two new HP printers for its central-London wide-format hub as it diversifies its equipment stock and eyes future expansion.
Westdale exits web market to focus on sheetfed
Westdale Press has exited the web offset market after taking up a “fantastic opportunity” to sell its web press to a continental printer.
Berforts book arm falls into administration
Berforts Information Press (BIP), one of the last dedicated colour book printers in the UK, has been placed in administration.