Printers

DC Thomson is set to roll out Wave2 Media's AdPortal3 print advertising workflow tool across its newspapers business six years after first installing the platform at one of its subsidiaries.

Digital printer Laserline has been sold via a pre-pack administration to I Am Print, an affiliated web-to-print business set up by two Laserline directors in July, although it is hoped that there will...

Fastsigns Hammersmith is targeting the 500,000 turnover mark by the end of 2013 after a successful 10 months under new ownership.

HPM Group has invested nearly 500,000 in a Muller Martini Pantera 1577 perfect binding line with a Merit S three-knife trimmer in response to print buyers increasingly switching from stitched to...

Quad/Graphics has announced a $258.5m (161m) bid for rival direct marketing business Vertis Holdings as the latter filed for Chapter 11 "to facilitate the intended sale".

Government plans to allow workers to trade employment rights for tax-free shares under new "employee-owner" contracts from April 2013 have split opinion in the print industry.

Workers will be able to sign away some of their employment rights in exchange for shares of up to 50,000 in the business they work for, under a radical plan to rewrite UK employment law.

Laminator manufacturer Foliant has made its first UK sales of the Mercury 530 SF and 400 SF.

Repropoint this week opened the doors of its Woking premises to 25 staff from finishing manufacturer Duplo.

Cambrian Printers will hold a relaunch party in London on 10 October after flood damage this summer stopped all production at its Aberystwyth factory.