Post-press

Driftgate Press has doubled the capacity of its finishing department by investing around 100,000 in a Horizon StitchLiner and Horizon AFC566 folder, which it bought via UK distributor GAE.

Ideal has replaced the 5221-05 EP Digicut guillotine with the Ideal 5222 Digicut, which is being distributed in the UK by Duplo International.

Woking-based litho and digital printer Optichrome has brought its mailing and fulfilment in house with the installation of a KAS Mailmaster.

Cambrian Printers has installed a Muller Martini Inventa sewing machine at its Aberystwyth factory, enabling it to make cost-savings by no longer outsourcing finishing work.

Colourstream Litho in Derby has bought a PitStop digital creaser and perforator to increase efficiency on short-run print jobs.

UK finishing equipment distributor Encore Machinery has been appointed as the sole distributor for French manufacturer JUD.

Easibind International has ordered a Manroland 500 five-colour plus coater press with full UV capabilities in order to meet demand for printing on polymers.

Staffordshire-based Swanline Print has experienced a "substantial increase in enquiries" since installing what it claims is Europe's largest fully automatic litho laminating system - the Automatan...

A print company that invested 1.5m earlier this year on a new site and kit has shown that it isn't afraid to keep spending by splashing out a further 80,000.

Ian Browning, managing director of Creative Productivity, says he invested in the Fuego to handle the companys increasingly diverse range of work