Consumables

Sun Chemical hikes ink prices by up to a fifth

Sun Chemical is raising its publication market prices by between 10 and 20% to reflect global rises in raw material, energy and transportation costs.

Oc CrystalPoint

Oc has claimed CrystalPoint will "change the way wide-format prints are made by combining the best of both toner and inkjet printing" to produce mono and colour waterfast prints for large-format...

Flint Group seals Pensord deal but warns of ink price rises

Flint Group has signed a two-year deal to supply sheetfed magazine printer Pensord but has announced it will be putting up prices for its printing inks by as much as 20%.

Star product: Arctic Volume Collection

Swedish paper manufacturer Arctic Paper has revamped its Arctic Volume collection of high-bulk, matt, fully-coated papers with two new shades, HighWhite and Ivory.

I swear by my: PaperCo 9lives 80

The Love Food Hate Waste full colour brochure is part of a Waste & Resources Action Programme (Wrap) campaign being run by Kent County Council.

Keep control of the colour of money

They say you only appreciate some things when they're gone, and this certainly applies to ink. The ubiquitous pigment makes the difference between a blank sheet of paper and a valued printed product,...

Sun Chemical teams up with IMG Digipack to beta test FastJet press

Ink giant Sun Chemical has partnered up with German company IMG Digipack to beta test its FastJet press, which is said to be the world's fastest inkjet printing machine for corrugated packaging.

Xerox lifts lid on 'next-generation' gel ink technology

Xerox has revealed the details of a next-generation inkjet technology that it has in development.

Durst develops thermo-formable UV ink for sports equipment

Durst has teamed up with SunJet to develop a new thermo-formable UV-cured ink system, which can be printed on sports equipment.

Pop Displays to merge with Easypack following Rapide purchase

Commercial printer Rapide has been acquired by point-of-purchase packaging company Pop Displays for an undisclosed sum.