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Doveton Press is set to save £60,000 a year on outsourcing after buying a Duplo iSaddle System stitcher as part of a wider investment that has topped more than £1m over the past 12 months.

Commercial and trade printer Print Right has brought booklet production in-house and is looking to buy another press to double turnover.

J Thomson Colour Printers has backed up a recent investment in MBO folders by replacing a Wohlenberg guillotine with a Polar 137 N Plus from Heidelberg, due to arrive this month.

Real Digital is due to take delivery of two Palamides Sima 220 automatic tray fillers this week on top of four recently installed models to bump up its production capabilities.

Pitney Bowes has launched its new Epic Inserting System at Hunkeler Innovationdays, held in Lucerne, Switzerland last week.

Printer and bookbinder Deanprint has invested in a bespoke Smyth Magnum 75 large-format book sewing machine to increase production capacity.

Muller Martini has unveiled its new Vareo perfect binder at Hunkler Innovationdays, held in Lucerne, Switzerland earlier this week.

There’s an apocryphal, but believable, story of an early Indigo press user sending a 100-copy job to a trade finisher, who duly phoned up the next day and said “Right, we’ve set up on the overs, can...

The Timsons T-Fold is set to live on under the ownership of Kolbus.