Printing

Abacus Print will install a Linoprint CV digital printer later this month to add value to jobs and enable it to increase its margins.

News UK has renewed major contracts to print both the London Evening Standard and Financial Times newspapers.

Music magazine NME is set to become a free publication in an attempt to reverse its steadily declining readership, and increase circulation from around 15,000 to 300,000.

Xerox has been awarded a three-year £40m managed print services contract by the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA).

A merchant which has supplied small print companies and design houses since 1999 is to launch a website to sell surplus stock and used equipment.

Wide-format reseller Graphic Printing Technologies (GPT) has become a reseller for HP’s Scitex FB550 and FB750 flatbed industrial printers.

Gemini West has secured a contract to produce a range of print for local charity Bristol Zoo.

Self-adhesive materials manufacturer Drytac Europe has launched SureTac, a new mounting adhesive for outdoor applications.

Two new surveys by paper pressure group Two Sides have revealed that consumers much prefer print to electronic media when reading news, magazine content, complicated information and bills.

Print North East has produced a wedding brochure for Newcastle’s Vermont Hotel, designed to replicate its luxurious surroundings and represent the high quality of its wedding events offering.

Commercial printer JR Print has acquired the assets, equipment and assignment of lease of fellow Horsham, West Sussex-based business Kool Kat, an ex-Kall Kwik franchisee, for an undisclosed sum.

Resource management and recycling specialist Countrystyle Recycling has secured contracts to provide recycling services to three printers based in the South East.