Disciplines

EFI reveals four new machines
EFI is due to launch its first EFI Reggiani printer this week after revealing three new Vutek machines at a show last week.

HMRC deadline looms for DM suppliers
Printers have until the end of the month to register with HMRC if they have inadvertently treated elements of direct marketing projects as zero-rated for VAT in the past, and want to avoid...

Sales and margins down at Grafenia but new services see success
Half-year sales and margins are down at Grafenia although there was continued positive news for its trade printing service, Marqetspace, and its new Brambl website creation offering.

Baker Labels makes first inkjet investment with Screen
Baker Labels has expanded its digital printing capability with its first inkjet machine, part of its strategy to maintain steady expansion.

Jacrac installs UK's first Samsonn Digital UV flatbed
Jacrac Display has taken delivery of the first Samsonn Digital UV flatbed printer in the UK.

Newspapers embrace augmented reality to support Poppy Appeal
Nine national newspapers have added augmented reality to their mastheads in a fundraising link-up between them, the Royal British Legion and Blippar.

KBA back in the black, ups digital R&D spend
KBA’s latest quarterly results show more effects of its wide-ranging restructuring – the group is back in the black and more than 60% of sales now come from the packaging market.

60 seconds with Quantum Print & Packaging
Quantum was formed in 2005 from the combination of EW Box Co and Holmes Printers. The company thrived under its management, and this culminated in an MBO in 2014 that saw Giles Foden (sales director...

Killer app: Datum adds fizz for Bollinger’s secret 007 screening
How do you get invited to an exclusive champagne breakfast screening of one of this year’s most hotly anticipated films? You do a top job of printing the invitations of course.

Can the Pre-Pack Pool make a difference?
It is one of the thorniest issues in business, and particularly in print, a sector that seems to have had more than its fair share of them – whether to pre-pack and what others think of those that do.