Equipment manufacturers

KBA has made "significant progress" in improving print quality on its RotaJet 76 and has added newspaper printing to the potential applications for the inkjet web press.

Isle of Wight-based commercial printer Crossprint is the first UK company to be signed up to Ricoh's Carbon Balanced Production Printing Programme.

X-Rite will consolidate its existing range of colour measurement devices into a single series, the X-Rite eXact, from 12 November.

American Industrial Partners (AIP), the private equity owner of narrow and mid-web flexo press maker Mark Andy, has completed its $26m (16.2m) purchase of direct imaging press builder Presstek.

Favini's latest innovation in packaging paper, Crush, has won the Green award at its launch at Luxepack 2012.

Eastman Kodak has posted double digit increases in its pre-tax and net loss in its third quarter results.

Gurnee, IL-based Nosco is set to become the first US customer for the HP Indigo 30000 digital sheetfed folding carton press, both companies announced at Pack Expo in Chicago this week.

Columbus, OH based Hopkins Printing has purchased a new Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 106 five color offset printing press, which will be installed in Q1 of next year.

The last major mid-market funder to the print industry, ING Lease, has announced its decision to pull out of UK asset finance from 30 November.

Heidelberg's Print Media Center (PMC) has been renovated and developed into an integrated commercial print shop, at its headquarters in Germany.