Screaming Colour has become the first UK printer to buy a Motioncutter high-speed digital laser cutter.

Stephens & George has taken delivery of a new Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 106 eight-colour perfector, which was ordered in November along with a second identical model due for delivery in 2015.

Used finishing equipment specialist Bindery Machinery Services will display a raft of kit on its 18x11m stand at Ipex this month, alongside a video demonstration area.

Kodak’s new chief executive has pledged to be “open, accountable and collaborative” in the role.

Printed packaging specialist Jem Packaging has invested in a PressProfiler server package from Prepress UK.

Cost-saving strategies helped deliver a 2.6% increase in adjusted pre-tax profit to £101.3m for newspaper publisher Trinity Mirror, in its financial results for the year ending 29 December 2013.

Heidelberg has announced details of its latest Speedmaster CD 102, which the manufacturer claims offers a 10% increase in productivity.

Duplo is to premiere a new family of OEM PUR perfect binders at Ipex under the UltraBind brand, which feature the “world’s smallest” closed-tank PUR system.

A comparative decline in analogue film sales has hit turnover at Agfa Graphics, but the business pushed up profits and its industrial inkjet division was in the black for the first time last year.

Heidelberg chief executive Gerold Linzbach has made the first major changes to the firm’s senior management team since he joined the business 18 months ago.

Pitney Bowes has entered into an OEM partnership with a third party to develop bespoke parcel sortation lines for courier firms and postal operators.