Print buying

Workers at Headley Brothers are braced for news of wide-scale redundancies at the up-for-sale business, which has again extended the measures that provide it with protection from creditors.

Garnett Dickinson Print has left an estimated shortfall of £29m, including a £25m pension deficit and £4.1m owed to trade creditors.

Continental groups CirclePrinters and Roto Smeets are to merge, in European print’s latest consolidation play.

Scientists in the US have developed a light-printable, ink-free rewritable paper that uses nano technology.

Headley Brothers has been dealt a blow with the loss of its contract to print two weekly magazines for Northern & Shell, but advisers to the company remain hopeful of finding a buyer for the...

Multi Packaging Solutions (MPS) has been confirmed as the first pilot customer for Heidelberg’s B1 sheetfed inkjet press, the Primefire 106.

St Ives has been dealt another blow with the loss of its contract to produce monochrome books for HarperCollins, which will result in a multimillion-pound hit to the group’s sales and profits.

Imprimus, the recently rebranded Stralfors UK, is developing a partnership with Office Depot subsidiary, Vital Communications.

Cloud-based software platform provider Custom Gateway has taken a stand at the inaugural PrintWeekLive! show in March.

Long-established family-owned magazine printer Headley Brothers has been put up for sale and has filed for protection from its creditors while the sale process is executed.