Equipment manufacturers

Machines take on manpower for materials handling

In the early days of wide-format inkjet printing, the technology was held in check from encroaching on screen and litho markets by limitations in printing itself.

Me & my: Infigo MegaEdit

Collaboration with web-to-print developer Infigo was the key to London digital printer Rapidity winning a big web-to-print contract with property agent Cluttons.

IST launches UV retrofit service

IST (UK) has launched a service that will enable UK printers to retrofit LE-UV, LED-UV/LUV or conventional UV drying technology onto installed or secondhand equipment.

Gillard hands Heidelberg sales reins to younger hands

Heidelberg southern sales manager Derek Gillard is to hand over the reins to "natural successor" Neil Fletcher in time for Drupa.

HP plans swift switch to digital in packaging sector

The corrugated packaging sector will go from web offset to digital “very quickly”, according to HP EMEA’s most senior Graphics Solutions Business executive, who plans to start a switch-to-digital...

Tech-ni-Fold creates new device to limit cracking

Tech-ni-Fold is planning to introduce a new attachment which, it says, highly reduces or stops cracking on the inside of a fold.

Friedheim International takes on Spedo equipment range

Finishing equipment specialist Friedheim International has started offering the Spedo range of mail and print finishing equipment, in partnership with VPTS.

Lakeland UK boosts efficiency with CMC CartonWrap 1000 investment

Kitchenware and homeware retailer Lakeland UK has bought a CMC CartonWrap 1000 box-on-demand system to automate its packaging of home shopping products.

Rosback to sell creasing heads in UK after winning in patent claim

US manufacturer Rosback Company will start selling a rival creasing system to Tech-ni-Fold Tri-Creaser technology in the UK after successfully defending a patent infringement claim in the US courts.

Durst launches new Alpha series

Durst has launched a new series of multi-pass textile printers, aimed at the digital production of home textiles and fashion.