Print buying

Workers at Headley Brothers are braced for news of wide-scale redundancies at the up-for-sale business, which has again extended the measures that provide it with protection from creditors.

Garnett Dickinson Print has left an estimated shortfall of £29m, including a £25m pension deficit and £4.1m owed to trade creditors.

Continental groups CirclePrinters and Roto Smeets are to merge, in European print’s latest consolidation play.

Scientists in the US have developed a light-printable, ink-free rewritable paper that uses nano technology.

Headley Brothers has been dealt a blow with the loss of its contract to print two weekly magazines for Northern & Shell, but advisers to the company remain hopeful of finding a buyer for the...

Multi Packaging Solutions (MPS) has been confirmed as the first pilot customer for Heidelberg’s B1 sheetfed inkjet press, the Primefire 106.

St Ives has been dealt another blow with the loss of its contract to produce monochrome books for HarperCollins, which will result in a multimillion-pound hit to the group’s sales and profits.

Long-established family-owned magazine printer Headley Brothers has been put up for sale and has filed for protection from its creditors while the sale process is executed.

Nick Alexander has thrown in the towel at Garnett Dickinson and the web offset printer has been sold in a pre-pack deal.

Nick Alexander, the former owner of Garnett Dickinson Print, has spoken out about the reasons behind the pre-pack sale of the business.

In a trading update released today (19 January), Communisis has said its trading for the year to 31 December 2016 finished in line with expectations.

Excitement over a potential new Cimpress site in the midlands has proved short-lived – the firm has shelved its plans, for now at least.