Books
CPI follows digital spend with new hardback book line
CPI UK has boosted its trade hardback book capacity by 50% with the installation of a new Kolbus casing-in line at its CPI Mackays site in Chatham, Kent.
CPI ramps up digital book production with third Quantum
CPI UK is to boost its high-speed inkjet web book printing firepower by more than 60% with the installation of a third ‘Quantum’ line this summer – its largest to date.
Pureprint targets growth with BT&D sales hires
Pureprint is targeting growth in its colour book and corporate publishing print operation after setting up a new sales office in Frome, Somerset, manned by a senior team from collapsed book printer...
Page Brothers buys Speedmaster CX 102 to up throughput
Book and journal printer Page Brothers has invested in a Heidelberg CX 102-5+L to increase its efficiency and productivity.
Print firm fined £13,000 after worker loses finger
Ashford Colour Press has been fined £13,000 and ordered to pay £1,278 in costs after a worker lost a finger and seriously injured another during unsafe maintenance work on a bookbinding machine last...
Barnard & Westwood plays host to HRH The Duke of York
HRH The Duke of York visited printing and bookbinding company Barnard & Westwood last Thursday (May 29).
Clays bolsters short-run capabilities with Timson and Kolbus kit
St Ives Clays has taken its digital investment to £2.5m over the past six months with the purchase of new Timson finishing equipment for its wide-web Timson T-Press and a Kolbus short-run hardback...
BT&D closure leaves buyers in lurch
A number of print buyers have been left scrambling to find alternative suppliers following last week’s announcement that the book printing operation of Butler Tanner & Dennis is to close – with one...
Fine bindings go on display at St Bride
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.
GF Smith pledges 'exceptional' quality with new book service
GF Smith has gone live with its new bespoke photobook service ‘Make Book’.
Book printing blow as BT&D closure announced
The book printing operation of Butler Tanner & Dennis in Frome is being put into administration with co-owner Felix Dennis describing it as “a sad day for British book printing”.
HP's MagCloud now part of Blurb
Online publishing platform Blurb has taken over HP’s MagCloud business.