Companies & suppliers

Communisis has recorded a 23% increase in operating profit before exceptional items to 11.6m on turnover of 229.8m in its preliminary results for the year ended 31 December 2012.

Automated estimating software specialist Brightblue has launched a white label version of its costing engine.

The Langham Press has opted for an MGI Meteor DP8700XL as its first digital press.

Leicester print group RPS has taken delivery of a Chromira 5x RA4 large format photo printer in response to growing demand for high quality backlit display graphics.

San Mateo, Ca-based BarkerBlue recently expanded its wide format and digital printing capabilities with a range of equipment from HP and Zund as it looks to provide branding solutions to Silicon...

Sussex, WI-based Quad/Graphics managed to overcome pricing pressure and a decline in sales to post a $21m Q4 net profit, reversing a $7m loss for the same period a year earlier.

Two US Congressmen this week introduced a bipartisan resolution that seeks to reverse a recent federal push toward going paperless for a variety of information and services, ranging from income tax...

New York-based Time Warner is set to spin off its entire magazine division, including UK-based IPC Media, into a separate, publicly traded company.

Commercial outfit Bell Printers has taken delivery of a Schneider Senator E-Line 78 from Friedheim to replace its ageing guillotine.

Digital print's advance into packaging markets will be underlined later this month with both HP and Océ exhibiting at the first Corrugated & Carton Exhibition CCE International in Munich.