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Marstan Press has boosted its finishing capabilities by investing in a new Heidelberg Stahlfolder KH 66, a reconditioned Heidelberg Platen and a secondhand Horizon HT-30 three-edge trimmer.

Heidelberg’s Drupa exhibit will focus on customer demands caused by the industrialisation of printing, under the banner theme of ‘Simply Smart’.

Labelling manufacturer Watermill Press has invested more than £100,000 in bespoke label finishing equipment to help it to secure a major contract worth £500,000.

Muller Martini aims to harness the zeitgeist around the so-called 'internet of things' and is promising to showcase 'Finishing 4.0' at next year’s Drupa exhibition.

Bolton-based wide-format printer Impression has invested more than £150,000 in a DYSS X7-1624C digital cutting table with Superhead and a Konica Minolta bizhub Pro C1070 digital press.

Bell & Bain has embarked upon a multimillion-pound investment programme, including the first Horizon Smart Binding System in Europe and a new KBA Rapida 145 large-format litho press.

Heat-reactive ink, which reveals hidden images when warmed, has been used to enhance the front cover of the latest issue of Future Publishing’s graphic design magazine Computer Arts.

Martin officially ‘retired’ from First 4 at the end of October, but we hear he’ll still do about four months a year at the Blackburn company, which recently carried off PrintWeek’s SME Company of the...

Ding, ding! All aboard! Plenty more space, move along down the bus please. An old London Routemaster bus is the most unusual thing on Alpha Colour Printers’ kit list. And it was all aboard in the...

Edwardthompson has invested more than £400,000 in a raft of new machinery and equipment upgrades to increase its short-run promotional games production by around 50%.