Investment & installations

Wakefield-based printer Hippoprint has invested around £25,000 in the UK's first Mimaki JV400-160SUV as part of a rolling kit investment programme.

Communisis has installed the first of two new HP T400 presses at the former Lloyds Banking Group print site in Copley following the official start of the 10-year outsourcing contract on 1 October...

Hollywood Monster has taken delivery of one of the UK's first MTEX 5032 wide-format direct-to-textile printers and immediately used it to produce a huge theatre graphic.

Healeys Print Group has spent nearly 200,000 on a Kodak Nexpress S2500 to give "added wow factor" to short-run targeted work for marketing agencies and other clients.

Polestar appears to have decided on the main location for its new web presses.

Westdale Press has reversed its high-profile order for a KBA Rapida 106, announced at last year's Drupa, and returned instead to incumbent supplier Heidelberg for two new 10-colour B1 perfectors.

Law Design and Print has beefed up its B2 output for Chinese menus after installing a Heidelberg SM 74 long perfector.

Lancashire-based wallpaper printer The Surface Print Company has invested in its first two digital wide-format printers as it looks to tap into the growing market for digitally-printed wallpaper.

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Infinity Finishing was one of the lucky ones, but just how lucky only time will tell. The business started in mid October, but unlike many would-be start-ups, this one was made possible with a loan...