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Print-Leeds has signed a new five-year plate contact with Agfa and invested in the manufacturer’s Arkana processor and Asanti wide-format workflow software.

By way of a complete contrast with the last Overmatter column, which looked at the macabre practice of anthropodermic bibliopegy, we now turn to a rather more 21st-century topic that will be music to...

We’re just a month and a half into 2018 and the packaging industry’s sustainability agenda has been firmly set for the forthcoming year – and indeed beyond.

Flint Group and Sun Chemical are both set to increase prices of various inks and coatings, effective from 1 March.

Heidelberg has more than 100 potential customers lined up for its new subscription pay-per-use business model, and is also targeting the offering at printers using presses from competitors.

Ink and consumables giant Sun Chemical has upped its presence in the premium security inks market with the acquisition of specialist UK manufacturer Luminescence.

Sun Chemical will make its debut at PrintWeekLive! this year with a focus on its specialist and LED products.

Water-based textile inks supplier MagnaColours has launched a new ink to facilitate easier printing of multi-coloured designs on to light- or dark-coloured garments.

Lancashire-based wide-format kit and consumables distributor Quality Print Services (QPS) has refreshed its range of Nazdar Ink Technologies products with the addition of a new series of dye-sub inks.

Contact Originators has become the first corrugated company in the UK to invest in Esko XPS Crystal technology for flexo plate imaging.