Digital

Heidelberg’s Drupa exhibit will focus on customer demands caused by the industrialisation of printing, under the banner theme of ‘Simply Smart’.

Downstream access provider turned mailing house UK Mail is about to launch a new W2P shop, which it said will rival Vistaprint in scope and scale.

Bolton-based wide-format printer Impression has invested more than £150,000 in a DYSS X7-1624C digital cutting table with Superhead and a Konica Minolta bizhub Pro C1070 digital press.

T&C Printers has put its faith in short-run work by buying its first digital machine, a Heidelberg Linoprint CV, to “catapult” it into new areas of work.

CPI Books has reacted to “a significant shift” towards print-on-demand by buying six new Canon printers.

Bell & Bain has embarked upon a multimillion-pound investment programme, including the first Horizon Smart Binding System in Europe and a new KBA Rapida 145 large-format litho press.

Dscoop EMEA could treble in size after it decided to make membership free, its new chairman has said.

Geoff Neal Litho was founded in 1976 by managing director Sam Neal’s dad, Geoff, almost by accident.

Flint Group has agreed to acquire the majority shareholder of Xeikon, XBC BV, and use the press and consumables manufacturer as the basis of a new digital division.

Amberley Labels has bought an HP Indigo WS6800 Digital Press and upgraded an existing WS6600 to a WS6800 specification to boost its capacity and productivity.