Investment & installations

Contract wins for Rocket have prompted the digital printer to look at buying a second 3.2m-wid EFI Vutek QS to drive expansion and cope with the extra work generated from its first Vutek install...

Optichrome has installed Kodak Colorflow Software Pro with ink optimisation to boost colour consistency, save money and improve environmental impact.

Theatre programme specialist John Good is looking to break into new markets after investing £2.9m in three new printing presses and two finishing machines for brochures and programmes.

Hobs Reprographics has unveiled a specialist 3D printing hub it calls the first of its kind in Britain.

Printed Solutions has bumped up digital production with a Konica Minolta C7000 to run alongside its Ryobi offset litho printing kit.

Stephens & George (S&G) has ordered two Speedmaster XL 106 eight-colour perfectors at a cost of £6.5m due for delivery in February 2014 and February 2015.

Wakefield-based printer Hippoprint has invested around £25,000 in the UK's first Mimaki JV400-160SUV as part of a rolling kit investment programme.

Communisis has installed the first of two new HP T400 presses at the former Lloyds Banking Group print site in Copley following the official start of the 10-year outsourcing contract on 1 October...

Hollywood Monster has taken delivery of one of the UK's first MTEX 5032 wide-format direct-to-textile printers and immediately used it to produce a huge theatre graphic.

Healeys Print Group has spent nearly 200,000 on a Kodak Nexpress S2500 to give "added wow factor" to short-run targeted work for marketing agencies and other clients.