Chinese built machinery is now very common in the printing sector, though it’s not always obvious because some of it carries reassuringly familiar European or Japanese brands, which lend it a feeling...

At around 70,000 copies sold per issue, Empire magazine is proof that the sector is far from moribund. However, it did want its March 2024 issue to be a bit more dead – or rather, undead.

Henry Ford, the founder of the Ford Motor Company and pioneer of mass production, once said: “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

There are stories of print company owners moving on and selling up. And there are accounts of individuals dying leaving survivors to deal with the firm’s future. The reality is that no small privately...

It’s hard to know which is worse – a print company with not enough business, or a firm with enough work but plant that has broken down. Neither are ideal and both are worrying.

Epson’s global president, Yasanori Ogawa, will give a keynote speech on the first day of Drupa 2024, 28 May, showing how Epson has reinvented itself as a major inkjet manufacturer.

It’s the end of an era for Xerox, which will stop making its iGen5 and Nuvera digital presses over the summer, while a new era beckons with a fresh third-party partnership for high-speed continuous...

Manroland Sheetfed has a new CEO and has opted to run its own ‘world tour’ instead of exhibiting at Drupa.

A former Liverpool and England footballing ace has been disqualified after his media business was wound up by HMRC.

Folio Print Finishing has been sold in a pre-pack deal to a second company owned by its directors, David Robshaw and Andrew Bird, after two major customers entered insolvency.