Print buying

Grafenia makes progress with new offerings
Half-year sales are down again at Grafenia, but margins are up and the firm’s new Marqetspace offering is on course to be a £1m business by the year-end.

Ricoh customer: new VC60000 will switch work from offset to inkjet
The first purchaser of Ricoh’s new Pro VC60000 colour inkjet web has said the press has changed his mind over the potential shift from offset to inkjet.

In2Print launches hotel printing service
Commercial printer In2Print has teamed up with hotel marketing agency Journey to launch a dedicated design and print service intended to cater to the needs of hospitality venues.

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Johnston Press eyes ad revenue tipping point in 2015
Johnston Press chief executive Ashley Highfield has said the regional publisher is close to returning to top line advertising revenue growth following continued slowing of the rate of decline in the...

Barwell adds B1 foiling with Masterwork spend
Barwell Finishers has added B1-format foiling and die-cutting to its existing range of post-press services.

Editor’s comment: Web squeeze could presage a new era
It has been a busy few weeks at PrintWeek Towers, what with work starting on the Top 500, last week’s Awards and the Power 100 earlier in the month, and it seems we’re not alone in being under the...

Web offset capacity crunch to continue
An “unprecedented” squeeze on UK web offset capacity could last until Christmas, even though Polestar has now begun printing live jobs on its first 96pp web press.

UK Competition authority clears O2O takeover
The acquisition of Office2Office (O2O) by Evo Business Supplies, a new company set up by UK private equity investor Endless for the purpose of acquiring O2O, has been cleared by the UK Competition and...

GI Solutions acquires Cognesia web analytics business
GI Solutions has acquired a majority stake in London-based web analytics business Cognesia for an undisclosed sum.