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Active Brand Concepts brings short runs in-house with Afinia buy
Brand development company Active Brand Concepts has become the first UK business to purchase an Afinia Label DLP-2000 digital label press.

Service Graphics digs deep for 'state-of-the-art' Dursts
Service Graphics has boosted production by investing in three Durst Rho P10 wide-format printers for its sites in Chessington and Glasgow.

CFH Docmail acquires BSS Scotmail business
CFH Docmail has acquired the assets of the Glasgow site of BSS Scotland, also trading as BSS Scotmail, for an undisclosed sum.

St Clements Press sold with FT to Japanese company
The Financial Times-owned printer St Clements Press has been sold alongside the newspaper, the FT has confirmed.

BIS begins consultation on late payment support
Ministers have started to search for a small business commissioner who will name and shame bad companies and chase down late payments, worth nearly £27bn, as part of a wider consultation on support...

‘Identify where you are making money’
Normally a company boss cuts their teeth heading up a small business, graduating to bigger and bigger firms as they gain more experience before, perhaps one day, working for a multi-site,...

Killer app: Service Graphics cast for giant TV Centre production
Service Graphics produced a 1,500sqm car park wrap to advertise a forthcoming £400m mixed-use development at the former BBC Television Centre, part of a 14-month project.

Is print's next big thing... small?
QR codes seem to have gotten a bit stale, printed electronics are the preserve of the specialists, then there’s the whole can of worms that is 3D printing.

Overmatter: funny money
Overmatter knows that counterfeiting is a very serious issue, and generally no laughing matter.

Q&A: Ian Chamberlain, managing director, Tudor Bookbinding
Ian has worked in print finishing since he left school at the age of 16, barring a brief interlude in 1975 when he tried his hand at being a milkman, a cooked meats salesman, and a van driver, before...