Investment & installations

One of Scotland’s oldest printing firms, Bell & Bain, has bought a warehouse for almost £500,000 and is looking to buy £4m of equipment on top of a £5m spending blitz over the last year.

John Baxter & Sons has taken delivery of a Heidelberg Linoprint C 751 this week to boost the company's high-quality digital work.

Transactional print and mailing house FCS LaserMail has bought a host of new kit as part of an ongoing investment that is likely to hit £750,000.

Digital Wordcrafts has installed a new Mimaki JV5-320S 3.2m-wide solvent printer to help the Leicester-based company bring more work in-house.

Contract wins for Rocket have prompted the digital printer to look at buying a second 3.2m-wid EFI Vutek QS to drive expansion and cope with the extra work generated from its first Vutek install...

Optichrome has installed Kodak Colorflow Software Pro with ink optimisation to boost colour consistency, save money and improve environmental impact.

Theatre programme specialist John Good is looking to break into new markets after investing £2.9m in three new printing presses and two finishing machines for brochures and programmes.

Hobs Reprographics has unveiled a specialist 3D printing hub it calls the first of its kind in Britain.

Printed Solutions has bumped up digital production with a Konica Minolta C7000 to run alongside its Ryobi offset litho printing kit.

Stephens & George (S&G) has ordered two Speedmaster XL 106 eight-colour perfectors at a cost of £6.5m due for delivery in February 2014 and February 2015.