News

Ron England, who ran some of the UK’s biggest print sites during his career in the industry, has died aged 65.

Tangent Communications has posted impressive hikes in sales and profits in its year end results, published this morning (19 May).

Bishops Printers has continued its year of investments into Heidelberg kit by purchasing a Speedmaster XL 75-10-P press to improve its quality and speed of makeready and reduce its waste.

Adobe has apologised to its Creative Cloud users, many of whom were shut out of their accounts for 24 hours across 14-15 May due to a problem with Adobe's login services.

An exhibition of contemporary book binding is underway at London’s St Bride Foundation, featuring the craft of UK and USA-based fine binding specialists.

A new printmaking competition has been launched by the Royal Society of Painter-Printermakers, with the aim of promoting the best of printmaking to a wider audience.

Communisis has announced that it will reduce the headcount at its Cross Gates Leeds facility by around 75 as a response to declining direct mail volumes.

KBA posted a double-digit jump in sales and orders during the first quarter across its business units, and its sheetfed business is back in the black.

Bristol-based printer Kingsdown Printing claims to have become the first company in the UK to gain certification to the newest ISO 27001 standard, ISO 27001:2013.

Fespa’s World Wrap Masters, part of the Feature Hub programme, will return for next week’s Fespa Digital 2014 trade show in Munich with a brand new competition format.

GF Smith has gone live with its new bespoke photobook service ‘Make Book’.

GI Solutions has revealed that the March launch of its digital envelope mailpack product was enabled by a £2m investment in a pair of JWR 30K paper wrappers from CMC Machinery.

News UK has appointed DMG Media's Tracey Hart to the newly created role of commercial director of operations, with a remit to develop new markets for its printing and distribution businesses.

Friedheim International has been able to target new markets and cross-promote its existing kit following its addition of Italian firm Vega Group to its suppliers list in the UK and Ireland.

UKIP and the Labour Party have scored something of a political own-goal by having election materials printed in Germany.