Print buying

Nick Hand, who pedalled his ‘printing bike’ from Bristol to Gutenberg’s birthplace in Germany in 2014, is planning a new printing odyssey from Lands’ End to John O’Groats.

A year on from the collapse of Polestar, UK printers remain hopeful of winning back some of the work that migrated to the continent – and remained there – after the group’s failure.

A ‘northern wayzgoose’ is being organised over the summer by two Yorkshire-based exponents of letterpress printing and fine binding.

Stones Ashford has parted company with two former directors of Headley Brothers.

Theresa May’s decision to call a snap general election should provide a welcome short-term boost for the printing industry.

The revamped YM Chantry site is now fully up and running, having commissioned the Goss Sunday 5000 64pp short-grain press at the site.

Bell & Bain is to dramatically increase bindery throughput with a £1m-plus investment in a bespoke Muller Martini solution that will be a world first.

Heidelberg has scored something of a coup, by signing up a packaging printer originally named as one of Landa’s beta sites to be a pilot user of its Primefire 106 B1 inkjet press.

Landa Digital Printing has revealed the identity of the firm that will be the site of its first beta installation later this year – an Israeli packaging printer – along with details of its first...

Wyndeham Group is proposing changes at its Bicester site that could result in up to 64 redundancies.

The current trading status of Anton Group is unclear, with a number of sources reporting that the business effectively ceased trading yesterday.

Unsecured creditors of Headley Brothers are owed more than £4m and are unlikely to receive any form of payout.