HP will continue to offer its cloud-based digital wallcovering design and production tool, HP WallArt, as a free service to users of its HP Latex printers following the completion of a one-year trial.

North London-based Face Creative Services has become the first company to buy Canon wide-format printing equipment from M Partners Wide, after purchasing two 12-colour Canon imagePrografs.

Healeys Print Group has invested in binding and laminating equipment from Fastbind to maximise on its recent Kodak NexPress investment.

Westdale Press managing director Alan Padbury predicts that mindsets will change in 2014 as people refocus on quality and service.

Acquisitions, investments and insolvencies: all the action from a year in print

Acquisitions, investments and insolvencies: all the action from a year in print

Acquisitions, investments and insolvencies: all the action from a year in print

Avon Graphic Technologies owed creditors a total of £1.8m at the time of its September collapse, according to the administrators' report, including more than £800,000 to trade creditors.

Staffordshire-based commercial printer KJB has invested circa £300,000 upgrading its post-press and front-end capabilities to bring more processes in-house and drive forward its ambitious growth plan.

Around 75% of floor space has already been reserved by exhibitors at Fespa Africa 2014, set to take place in Johannesburg, South Africa from 2-4 July next year.