2016 and all that... July

No guesses as to which story dominated the news in 2016, the 20 most read stories on printweek.com for 2016 are all about Polestar. Nevertheless there was plenty else going on, not least of all Drupa...

MailaDoc invested in a five-colour Xerox iGen 5 digital press... Rapidity bought the print arm of media production agency Tapestry... Pollard Boxes bought local rival Clarke Rubicon... Route One Print purchased a new 10-colour B2 Speedmaster XL 75... Flint Group acquired UK-based ink and blanket manufacturer and supplier Druckfarben for an undisclosed sum... Xerox was reported to be in talks to buy RR Donnelley. However, Xerox scotched the rumours later in the month... Johnston Press signed a seven-year deal with Agfa Graphics to provide pre-press equipment and a complete upgrade of pre-press facilities... Macfarlane Packaging opened a new distribution centre to help spearhead growth in Scotland... Gardners invested heavily in new equipment, purchasing three EFI printers, finishing kit and also becoming the official licence holder for all Agripa Fleet Graphics products... The Sun launched a new, free monthly magazine Popcorn, touted to be the biggest film magazine in the country... Tipografic invested in its second Speedmaster XL 106 in six months, as well as finishing equipment, in a £3m spend... A new print management venture for the labels market, Reel Deal Multi-labels, set out to win £500,000 in sales within a year... Witherbys invested in a new six-colour Speedmaster XL 75 and a Stahlfolder CH 56... Dutch online W2P platform Helloprint said it wanted to triple UK turnover to £16.7m... Rumours began that ABC Print (Hereford) was set to go into liquidation... Adare made its second acquisition in the space of 10 weeks by picking up Polestar Applied Solutions... Heidelberg announced that chief executive Gerold Linzbach would be stepping down in August 2017... Macfarlane Group added to its acquisitions by taking on Nelsons for Cartons for £6.75m... Stephens & George bought Enfield Printing Company, trading as The Magazine Printing Company, and announced a significant restructure... Pureprint Group took delivery of an HP Indigo 12000 as a beta test site for the machine, one of just two companies in the UK and 12 globally... The New European, a pro-Remain newspaper, extended its publication run beyond its initially stated four weeks... EFI was on track to achieve its targeted $1bn turnover after it reported a 21% increase in revenue in the second quarter of 2016...