Companies & suppliers

Memjet hails successful May
Memjet entered May with a handful of mid-size print equipment partners, including Delphax for its waterfall inkjet technology. But it was also facing scepticism on whether its single pass digital...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt moves to reorganize after bankruptcy
US book publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) has moved quickly to secure funding after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy early this week. This means that many of its unsecured creditors -...

HP posts Q2 profit decline, announces 27,000 layoffs
A 10% decline in HP's Imaging and Printing Group (IPG) revenue contributed to a sobering Q2 for the printer, PC, software and enterprise company, which reported a 3% drop in turnover to $30.7bn...

Me & my... Taopix 2.5.8 photobook creation software
The year is 1881, and brothers Herbert and Burgess Headley have just set up a printing press in a small room above their father's grocery shop. Their main aim is to print vegetable bags for the...

Grow the profit by sharing the costs
While some printers can make those figures add up to profit, many are increasingly adopting an alternative route to the consumer market that some have dubbed B2B2C. In this arrangement, the printer...

GJ Plastics invests in HP Scitex FB500
GJ Plastics has boosted its service offering after investing in an HP Scitex FB500 industrial printer to broaden the range of substrates it can print on.

Busch founder Ian Jones passes away
Busch Graphic Machinery UK managing director Ian Jones has died of cancer aged 64.

Anton adds variable to XL 106 with Kodak S5 order
Anton Group has ordered an additional eight Kodak Prosper S5 Imprinting Systems, taking its total to 14, and two new NexPress SX3900s at Drupa.

Memjet partnerships may boost Waterfall
Memjet unveiled two partnerships at Drupa this month with the potential to accelerate the mainstream adoption of its high-speed, single-pass inkjet technology.

ODM partners with Mohawk to launch photobook binder
On Demand Machinery (ODM) has partnered with Mohawk Fine Papers to manufacture the Sidewinder, an automated bindery system for producing Panoramic TRU-Flat photo books.