Investment & installations

GBM Group has trebled its digital wide-format production capacity with the installation of a new Screen Truepress Jet W3200UV HS at its Manchester print facility.

Commercial printer Platinum Print has invested in a range of new finishing equipment, taking its total investment spend in 2014 to over £1m.

Vistaprint has announced plans to invest "hundreds of millions of dollars" in a next-generation software platform that will aggregate orders from across its growing portfolio of customer-facing brands...

Book manufacturer TJ International has branched out into short-run digital colour production for the first time after installing a Canon Océ ColorStream 3900 inkjet printer.

Digital print specialist Colour Options has reduced a bottleneck in its finishing department by investing £43,500 in a Heidelberg Stahlfolder Ti 52.

Consumables supplier Inkland has bounced back from losing a major contract following the collapse of HPM & Addo after securing a significant equipment and consumables deal with Potts Print (UK).

Commercial printer Raise Print has boosted its digital operation by investing in a Heidelberg Linoprint C751.

Leeds-based printer Pressision has invested £500,000 in digital print and finishing equipment as part of its three-year plan to grow its turnover by two-thirds from £1.5m to £2.5m.

Signage and wide-format printer Display Signs is looking to increase its turnover and take on more staff after investing in an HP Latex 360 and a Summa F Series flatbed cutter.

Sometimes the relationship between the sales and production sides of a business can be fraught due to conflicting priorities and many a mutual misunderstanding about exactly what the other does, how...