Investment & installations

Higham Press has upgraded its bindery by becoming the first UK company to install a Premier 435 perfect binder.

Print and marketing communications company Taylor Bloxham Group has invested just over £1m in two new Muller Martini finishing machines to replace kit that was damaged following an electrical fire.

Ultimate Digital has installed a second HP Indigo 20000 digital press, becoming the first company in the UK to do so.

Reflex Group is in the final stages of a re-equip of its label division that has seen £9m invested in 2017 and is intended to combat rising input costs and standardise production.

KJS Print to Mail Services has become the first UK printer to take the newly launched Xerox Versant 3100.

Prestige Printing division Raffle Tickets Direct has invested around £80,000 in a new Polar N92 Plus guillotine to reduce makereadies, along with a secondhand Agfa platesetter.

Large-format specialist Your Print Partner (YPP) has invested around £500,000 in four new Mimaki dye-sublimation printers, thereby becoming the UK’s biggest Mimaki house.

ProCo has become the first UK company to invest in an Agfa Jeti Tauro H2500 LED machine as part of a circa-£500,000 kit investment.

Commercial printer Printexpress has invested around £40,000 in two new Konica Minolta presses and a Watkiss binder in a bid to bring book production in-house.

Midland Regional Printers has invested in an Easymatrix 106 die-cutter to complement the purchase of a new Speedmaster earlier this year, along with a new label finisher, taking total 2017 spending to...