Ashfield Printing is set to become one of the first UK firms to install a Canon Océ Colorado after taking a special trip to Fespa to put the new UVgel wide-format printer through its paces.

Commercial printer Flexpress has installed the UK’s first Duplo DuSense DDC-810 ‘Sensory Coater’, which will be given its official launch at the Duplo Summer Festival.

Duplo breaks into digital spot varnishing with compact device.

Label printer PeterLynn has invested £750,000 in a Xeikon CX3 digital colour label press and a Digicon 3000 converting system.

Qualvis Print & Packaging has scooped a major prize at the Leicester Mercury Business Awards.

Terry Cooper Services (TCS) has added two new finishing machines to its portfolio.

Heidelberg is to launch three new post-press machines, for die-cutting, hot-foiling and glueing, intended to appeal to the majority of operators in the packaging market.

Trade finisher Leeds Die Cutting has ramped up its wire-binding capabilities with a third Renz system.

Conventional wisdom has it that digital printing is best suited to short-run applications with very limited opportunities in packaging, which is mainly a business of very long runs.

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