Investment & installations

KJS Print to Mail Services has become the first UK printer to take the newly launched Xerox Versant 3100.

Prestige Printing division Raffle Tickets Direct has invested around £80,000 in a new Polar N92 Plus guillotine to reduce makereadies, along with a secondhand Agfa platesetter.

Large-format specialist Your Print Partner (YPP) has invested around £500,000 in four new Mimaki dye-sublimation printers, thereby becoming the UK’s biggest Mimaki house.

ProCo has become the first UK company to invest in an Agfa Jeti Tauro H2500 LED machine as part of a circa-£500,000 kit investment.

Commercial printer Printexpress has invested around £40,000 in two new Konica Minolta presses and a Watkiss binder in a bid to bring book production in-house.

Midland Regional Printers has invested in an Easymatrix 106 die-cutter to complement the purchase of a new Speedmaster earlier this year, along with a new label finisher, taking total 2017 spending to...

Trade printer Route One has launched a summer recruitment drive that will involve the hiring of just shy of 30 new staff.

Litho printer Direct Colour has installed a B2 Komori Lithrone S29 H-UV machine, its first step into UV curing as it aims to bring down lead times.

Wide-format printer Imagink has seen its productivity quadruple after a £325,000 investment in wide-format kit that ended in the spring.

John E Wright has become the first company in the UK to take EFI’s Pro 16h production-level wide-format printer, after a surge in work for its Hull branch picked up during the UK City of Culture...