Commercial print

Commercial printer Matthews the Printers has launched a partnership with charity Fields of Life and is supporting the building of a well in Uganda.

Commercial printer Finger Prints has rounded off a year-long £1m investment programme with the purchase of a four-colour Heidelberg Speedmaster SX 74 LE-UV press.

Scottish commercial printer Meigle Colour Printers has entered provisional liquidation, blaming a “disillusioned trade” and a recent forced premises move, with 15 staff made redundant.

Commercial printer Positive Print Midlands (PPM) has invested circa-£150,000 on upgrades to its digital department, bringing in a Versant digital press, a Presstek direct imaging press and a...

Commercial printer XL Press has revealed its first foray into in-house large-format printing with a £26,000 investment in an MT-R180 hybrid UV printer from Chinese manufacturer Xenon.

Canon’s Stuart Rising has been promoted to the role of head of commercial printing, replacing the recently departed Craig Nethercott.

Northern Irish sheetfed printer W&G Baird has become the first UK company to install a B1 Komori Lithrone GL840P H-UV, rounding off an 18-month £6m investment period.

Healeys Print Group has continued its investment programme by investing around £250,000 in a Ricoh Pro C9100 digital press and a Horizon StitchLiner Mark III.

Taylor Bloxham Group has relocated its direct mail subsidiary FastAnt Direct to a new site in Leicester, in a bid to double direct mail output within two years.

Morgana has launched a larger-format version of its DigiBook 300 PUR binder capable of handling A3 landscape books.

Two Peterborough-based printers, Printmarshall and the Creative Company, have merged to form Printmarshall Creative.

Commercial printer Lynhurst Press has taken delivery of a Xerox Versant 180 digital press to increase productivity.