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Durst adds metallic effects through Color-Logic partnership

Durst has added metallic effects to its Tau 330 label press and is in the process of doing the same for its Omega II wide-format printer, thanks to a partnership with Color-Logic.

Your Print Partner sole wide-format agent for Race for Life

Your Print Partner has been announced as the sole wide-format print agent for Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life 2014.

Xaar sales settle down after ceramics spike

First quarter trading at Xaar has returned to the “normal seasonal pattern” after last year’s spike.

Octink makes national news

Octink – and one of its brand new Durst wide-format printers – played a starring role on last night’s ITV News at Ten.

Ormside Press bought out of administration by Intoprint

Ormside Press has been sold by its joint administrators Cameron Gunn, Simon Harris and Mark Supperstone of Resolve Partners, to Sheffield-based Intoprint, an unrelated B3 litho, digital and...

Vistaprint to open first UK office in Kings Cross, London

Vistaprint will open its first permanent UK office this summer after reaching agreement on a premises in Kings Cross, London.

P&G inks five-year supply deal with Communisis

Communisis has extended its managed services contract with consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble for a further five years.

Steels hoisted at Polestar Sheffield

Polestar is making headway on the extension to its Sheffield site that will house the first of its new web offset presses later this year.

Binding Store acquires sole UK distribution deal for Tauler laminators

Binding Store has been appointed the sole UK distributor for Spanish manufacturer Tauler's range of thermal laminators.

Micropress Printers bolsters W2P services

Micropress Printers is expanding its web-to-print offering with an additional B2C site.

Super-Wide installs EFI Vutek GS3250LX

Trade-only wide-format printer Super-Wide has invested in its first EFI Vutek machine, a GS3250LX, which was installed at the beginning of April.

Overmatter: double denim daredevils

Overmatter is not a fervent follower of fashion. It’s all just too confusing.

Killer app: Signbox creates head-turning artwork for Skype HQ

The central London offices of digital media companies have a certain reputation to maintain. Declining the London bus, ‘Granny’s Flat’ and ‘Hobbit Hole’ aesthetics of a certain other media giant’s...

B&B Press orders UK's first LED UV presses

Rotherham-based B&B Press has become the first UK printer to order LED-UV offset presses, investing over £1m in a Sakurai Oliver 480SD LED UV four-colour and 580SD LED UV five-colour press.

Arizona extends substrate capabilities for Graphic Works

Following on from the installation and integration of a new Canon Océ Arizona 660XT flatbed printer, Graphic Works has expanded its range of products to include printed acrylics and custom cartons.