Web to print

Vistaprint acquires Pixartprinting in €127m deal
Vistaprint will acquire a 97% stake in Italian web-to-print business Pixartprinting for a base price of €127m (£105m) while the company's founder Matteo Rigamonti will retain a 3% stake.

Debenhams brings all global tag printing in-house
Debenhams has expanded its in-house print operation to include all product labelling, previously outsourced to bureaus in the UK and the Far East, after the addition of a Xerox iGen150 and Nuvera 157.

Precision targets high-end projects with big Ipex spend
Precision Printing signed for £450,000 worth of layflat and case-binding kit from Duplo at Ipex to enable the firm to boost its high-value, high-impact corporate and on-demand offering.

ISL unveils new photobook module for Catfish
Infigo Software (ISL, N1-D093) has launched a new photobook module for its Catfish W2P software at Ipex.

Re-energise your firm with W2P
Exploiting the full potential of W2P helped bring an old-fashioned firm bang up to date.

Printing.com founder to give W2P book Ipex launch
Managing director of Printing.com Tony Rafferty is to launch his new book, Web2Print MD2MD, at Ipex later this month.

Star product: Taopix
Software designed for personalised photo gifts.

Overmatter: Made with British rain
“When life sends you lemons, make lemonade” – a phrase beloved of every damn upbeat optimist around the globe. We have just learned of a new variant on this theme: “When life sends you Biblical...

Tangent posts positive trading update
Tangent Communications has announced a 20% increase in its like-for-like underlying operating profit for the 12-months to 28 February 2014.

Grimsby Print & Copy Centre invests in new equipment
The Print & Copy Centre in Grimsby has bought a raft of new equipment in the past six months, including a brace of Ricoh multifunction printers (MFPs) and a Mohr 66 NET guillotine.