Equipment manufacturers

A super-wide-format machine offering four or eight colours

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.

Distributor Day Graphic Systems has expanded its product offering with the addition of a new range of offline coating machines.

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.

As well as handling a wider range of exciting formats with 60 seconds' makeready, this device runs fast and is simple to use.

Perfect binder producer Wohlenberg has launched three news systems: Quickmax, Vento, Phoenix

Finishing kit supplier Duplo has made its PC-based control system available for mobile devices, enabling printers to oversee machines remotely.