Investment & installations
Neck and neck: platesetters keeping up with digital kit
As technology continues to improve, litho presses are currently getting much better at short-run, on-demand work. But platesetters must keep apace, too, if those gains are really going to be effective
Ripe Digital in UK first for Mohr 56 ECO
Wiltshire print company Ripe Digital has become the UK's first customer for the Mohr 56 ECO guillotine.
Print Me It invests for growth
County Durham print firm Printmeit.com has increased its offer and brought wide format work in-house with a facility expansion and equipment investment.
GPS invests over £1m to bring binding in-house
GPS Colour Graphics has invested in excess of £1m in a new Heidelberg Eurobind Pro 19 clamp perfect binder and a Muller Martini Ventura MC sewing machine.
ESP trebles in size following £2m investment over a year
ESP Colour has trebled in size following an investment in digital and wide-format printing and creative design and web services late last year.
The Printroom in UK first with Horizon
Liverpool-based commercial printer The Printroom has invested in the UK's first Horizon StitchLiner 6000.
AC Print moves to bigger site following expansion
Print and graphic design company AC Print has moved to a bigger site after outgrowing its previous premises in Devon.
Informa's bad news won't necessarily impact visitors
A belated happy new year to you all - although I suspect the popping of Champagne corks at Ipex HQ was muted by the news of further major no-shows at next year's event.
Star product: Fujifilm XMF ColorPath
Fuji's cloud-based colour-management software system
Potts Print cashes in on post press spend with Barclays scheme
Printing, packaging and direct mail company Potts Print has invested in two new pieces of kit with the help of a Barclays cashback loan scheme.