Digital

Printers are benefiting from the boom in demand for personalised gifting, with Christmas 2016 likely to reach a new high for this part of the market.

Web-to-print giant Cimpress has acquired pen manufacturer and customiser National Pen Company, in a deal worth more than $200m (£158m).

North London-based digital printer Face Creative Services has gone into administration.

Imagedata Group has boosted capacity at its Brighton site by more than 20% with a spend of around £400,000 on two new Xerox digital presses.

Commercial printer Tristar Printers has invested £250,000 in a Canon Océ Arizona 1260 GT printer, a Dyss Digital Cutter and an extension to its premises.

Adare SEC has invested circa £3m in continuous-feed, high-speed colour inkjet kit for the former Polestar site it acquired in the summer.

Canon is to use next year’s PrintWeekLive! to reinforce its collaborative approach to helping printers thrive and reveal more information about its latest inkjet technology.

Commercial printer Apple Colour has invested heavily in a Heidelberg Versafire CV digital press, a variety of Morgana finishing kit and a Heidelberg Prinect Business Manager workflow package.

Barnwell Print has invested more than £1m in new equipment as it introduces an SRA1 press to its traditional B2 offering and upgrades its pre- and post-press equipment.

Corrugated converter Caps Cases has installed a Zünd D3 L-3200 digital cutter.