Investment & installations
Design 4 Print switches to Ricoh with double purchase
Design 4 Print has invested in two new Ricoh machines to enhance its digital production capabilities.
Hobs Repro Abingdon enhances finishing with new Fastbind
Hobs Repro’s Abingdon base has invested in a Fastbind Pureva XT binder from Ashgate Automation to add a PUR option to its offering.
NBC broadens pick-and-place offering with H+H spend
NBC Print Finishing has invested in a Herzog + Heymann (H+H) 392 transport system as a key component of its revamped pick-and-place service.
Deanprint takes first automated MBO K80 folder
Deanprint has taken on England’s first fully automated MBO K80 folder from Friedheim International as part of a years-long drive to improve efficiency.
Propack begins migration from mono with new Riso duo
Propack is set to take on two Riso ComColor GD9630 cutsheet inkjet printers in order to migrate 400,000 packs of monthly mono overprint work to full-colour.
Speedscreen ‘completes jigsaw’ with Fujifilm investment
Speedscreen has invested £145,000 in a new Acuity Select HS 38 from Fujifilm to “complete the missing jigsaw piece” in its kit portfolio.
Label Makers world's first to integrate MPS flex with AB foiling unit
The Label Makers (Labmak) has achieved a world first by integrating a Big Foot hot foiling and embossing module from AB Graphics into an MPS EF flexo press.
PCP doubles stitching productivity
Precision Colour Printing (PCP) has invested more than £1.2m in a new Primera MC stitching line from Muller Martini to boost productivity and flexibility.
Planting a new hub in the land of the thistle
Graham Hunstone is spreading his wings again. The England-based Scot recently opened a regional sales hub nearly 300 miles from his print company headquarters in Lincoln.
Me & my: CMC 9000
At the end of last year the First 4 Group spent around £250,000 on a pair of new Italian-made envelope enclosing lines, a CMC 9000 and a smaller CMC 250, replacing a pair of older machines.