Printers

GI Solutions recruits Darren Crawford as group IT director

GI Solutions Group has recruited Darren Crawford as group IT director and charged him with overseeing an estimated £750,000 investment over the next three years.

MTP Media invests in B2 five-colour Sakurai press

MTP Media has invested in a Sakurai 575SDW five-colour B2 press, which has replaced an older four-colour B2 machine from the same manufacturer.

Douglas overhauls pre-press with CTP and workflow investment

Bishop's Stortford-based design and print business Douglas has invested in a new Suprasetter A75 from Heidelberg as well as an upgrade to its pre-press software suite.

Ormside Press bought out of administration by Intoprint

Ormside Press has been sold by its joint administrators Cameron Gunn, Simon Harris and Mark Supperstone of Resolve Partners, to Sheffield-based Intoprint, an unrelated B3 litho, digital and...

Vistaprint to open first UK office in Kings Cross, London

Vistaprint will open its first permanent UK office this summer after reaching agreement on a premises in Kings Cross, London.

Micropress Printers bolsters W2P services

Micropress Printers is expanding its web-to-print offering with an additional B2C site.

Super-Wide installs EFI Vutek GS3250LX

Trade-only wide-format printer Super-Wide has invested in its first EFI Vutek machine, a GS3250LX, which was installed at the beginning of April.

Q&A: Leslie Manning, chairman, Rapidity Communications

Although he is clearly way too young to retire, that’s exactly what Les Manning plans to do come May after 43 years in print. His four sons all work at London-based Rapidity, so we guess he’ll still...

Tinkerers in search of the eureka moment

Print’s best-known eureka moment came more than 550 years ago, when Johannes Gutenberg figured out a way to print books using moveable type and a press based on the sort of screw press used for making...

Killer app: Signbox creates head-turning artwork for Skype HQ

The central London offices of digital media companies have a certain reputation to maintain. Declining the London bus, ‘Granny’s Flat’ and ‘Hobbit Hole’ aesthetics of a certain other media giant’s...