Printers

Wotton Printers has boosted its offset firepower with the installation of a B3-format Ryobi 524HE press in response to a growing demand for four-colour production.

The Llandysul, Wales-based publisher and printer is targeting a 20% increase in turnover after concluding a £3m upgrade of its pre-press, printing and finishing equipment.

Printworks, Falkirk Council's print facility, has installed a Perfecta 76 HTVC guillotine as the final part of its 460,000 long-term investment project.

While more than 100m of Drupa orders, mainly for batch-produced sheetfed offset presses, will take time to impact, preliminary half-year figures reveal overall group order intake is down 114m.

CPI Card Group has acquired the operating assets of ID Data Cards from UK security printer the Tall Group of Companies for an undisclosed sum.

St Ives has warned of "further deterioration" in trading conditions across its print operations while praising the performance of its burgeoning marketing services division.

Imprint Digital has found that encouraging clients to submit correct PDFs and shunning the euro helped it compete on the export market

Online print provider Solopress has moved ordering deadlines for its mainland UK next-day delivery service to 2pm.

Cabot Corp has announced the completion of a $10 million expansion of its Haverhill, Mass. inkjet facility as it looks to position itself for the expected surge in commercial inkjet production.