Print buying

Nick Hand, who pedalled his ‘printing bike’ from Bristol to Gutenberg’s birthplace in Germany in 2014, is planning a new printing odyssey from Lands’ End to John O’Groats.

News UK print arm, Newsprinters, has agreed a new contract with Agfa, ahead of the current contract’s scheduled expiry in 2018, in a deal that will see its CTP and workflow system completely...

A year on from the collapse of Polestar, UK printers remain hopeful of winning back some of the work that migrated to the continent – and remained there – after the group’s failure.

StackaWraps has secured investment from two leading wide-format industry figures as it looks to steer its innovative shaped fabric POS and film props business through its next period of growth.

A ‘northern wayzgoose’ is being organised over the summer by two Yorkshire-based exponents of letterpress printing and fine binding.

Stones Ashford has parted company with two former directors of Headley Brothers.

Theresa May’s decision to call a snap general election should provide a welcome short-term boost for the printing industry.

The revamped YM Chantry site is now fully up and running, having commissioned the Goss Sunday 5000 64pp short-grain press at the site.

Bell & Bain is to dramatically increase bindery throughput with a £1m-plus investment in a bespoke Muller Martini solution that will be a world first.

Heidelberg has scored something of a coup, by signing up a packaging printer originally named as one of Landa’s beta sites to be a pilot user of its Primefire 106 B1 inkjet press.