Investment & installations

We all tend to enjoy a whinge about the morning commute to work, but DS Smith print manager Steve Harkins would appear to have a far worse ordeal than the vast majority and so more cause to complain:...

Mark Hunter, MP for Cheadle, visited local printer BurrBaxter last Friday (16 March) to officially open the transactional printer's new 8,500sq ft unit in Stockport.

Manufacturer the Printed Cup Company has expanded with the opening of a new factory in the UK, which will specialise in producing short- and medium-run paper cups.

Huddersfield-based Aura Print has responded to "substantial" year-on-year growth by relocating to new premises and investing in its wide-format operation.

Many printers now provide design and cross-media solutions. This firm felt it could be swimming against the tide unless it adapted accordingly

Delta Display, part of the Delta Group, has taken delivery of two HP Scitex FB7500 industrial presses - its sixth and seventh - representing a 5m investment in the platform over the past 18 months.

Web offset printer Artisan Press has consolidated its position as one of the UK's leading catalogue manufacturers with a £3m investment in Muller Martini equipment.

Total Print Supplies (TPS) has expanded its pre-press portfolio after signing distribution agreements with plate manufacturers Xingraphics, Ipagsa and Presstek, and CTP manufacturer Glunz & Jensen.

Document Outsourcing Limited (DOL) has invested 350,000 in two new Xerox presses and GMC PrintNet workflow software in a bid to eliminate bottlenecks and cut turnaround times.

Communisis has announced a 10m investment in two HP T400 high-speed inkjet web presses at its Speke statementing facility to add to to the two T300s already installed at its Leeds site in the last two...