Disciplines

Premier Print has trebled output and opened up new markets after revamping its digital offering with Konica Minolta and Duplo kit.

Print and direct mail provider Eclipse has made the influential 1,000 Companies to Inspire Britain list from the London Stock Exchange Group, hailed by chancellor George Osborne.

Kodak’s Sonora processless plate business grew by 212% year-on-year and the company is set to add 15 million square metres of manufacturing capacity for the plate in 2015.

B2B print company Rapidity hopes to break into new sectors after signing up to use Infigo Software’s MegaEdit photobook platform run through its Catfish set-up.

St Ives has made its first major overseas acquisition in marketing services with a £50m deal to acquire US-based Solstice Consulting.

Digital printer Impression IT has become the latest UK business to install a DigiBook 200 PUR perfect binding machine.

Xerox has unveiled its new digital colour presses, the Versant 80 and the Colour 800i and 1000i.

Tudor Press, a family-owned high-street print shop on Reading's Oxford Road, will shut its doors for the final time next month when owner and third-generation printer Richard Farrow retires.

Park Communications has bought kit including a new digital press as part of an investment set to top £3m over the next year.

The BPIF’s employer-led submission to develop new apprenticeship standards for the print industry has been successful.