Investment & installations

NEC Graph-fix has bought an HP Scitex 11000 industrial press to upgrade its capability amid a busy year of developments for the firm.

Plastic Formers has taken on the UK’s first EFI H1625 SuperDraw, taking its first steps into digital print.

Digital Wordcrafts has enhanced its wide-format offering with the installation of an Agfa Anapurna H3200i LED-UV press and a Zünd G3 XL3200 digital flatbed cutter.

Kenads Printers is endeavouring to preserve a piece of print history by installing and restoring a Thompson-British automatic platen press from the 1940s.

Print-Leeds has signed a new five-year plate contact with Agfa and invested in the manufacturer’s Arkana processor and Asanti wide-format workflow software.

PM Solutions has bolstered its digital print offering with two new Xerox machines, including Scotland’s first Rialto 900 inkjet press.

FastLabels has invested around £500,000 in a new Xeikon CX3 and an upgrade to an existing Xeikon 3030 in order to futureproof its press line-up as demand for its services grows.

Newprint has bolstered its finishing line-up after spending around £50,000 on three new Morgana machines.

It started with finishing. Commercial printer PCL Digital was looking to win customers by offering more services. Print was well balanced on supply and demand, so managing director Nick Westley-Smith...

There’s no such thing as a cheap machine,” cautions Mark Sheldrick, managing director of secondhand specialist DPM. That said, there is no doubt that the canny printer working with the right partners...