Companies & suppliers

SMP Group has invested 500,000 in a new Durst Rho P10 250 UV wide-format printer as part of its ongoing investment strategy.

Kodak announced this week it has agreed to sell assets from its Document Imaging business to office equipment maker Brother Industries in a cash deal worth $210m (137m).

RnB Direct Mail has invested 80,000 in a nine-station Buhrs BB300 envelope inserting system with camera matching.

Amid the increasingly fractious debate about Baroness Thatcher's legacy, printers are seeing benefits as book demand soars.

Midland-based printing firm Emmerson Press recorded its best ever quarter at the start of this year, with 1m in sales.

A wide-format digital printer has doubled the size of its premises after an explosion in interest in printing on canvas.

Sussex-based Pureprint has proved its star quality after creating souvenir postcards for the 'David Bowie Is' exhibition at the Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum in London.

CFH Scotland has become only the second Scotland-based firm to be accredited to print and fulfil cheques north of the border, according to the company.

Finishing equipment supplier Watkiss Automation is hoping for a sales boost for three of its newest machines when showing them at North Print and Pack next month.

Digital pre-press and print pioneer Efi Arazi, founder of both Scitex and Electronics for Imaging (EFI) and father of Israel's high-tech industry, has passed away, aged 76.