Companies & suppliers

Avon Graphic Technologies leaves £1.8m debt

Avon Graphic Technologies owed creditors a total of £1.8m at the time of its September collapse, according to the administrators' report, including more than £800,000 to trade creditors.

Wyeth adds Linoprint to digital battery

Hampshire-based Wyeth Print Group has boosted its production firepower with a Heidelberg Linoprint C751 digital press and EBA 721 guillotine from Morgana.

M Partners Wide adds Canon kit to product portfolio

M Partners Wide, the wide-format division of printing kit supplier M Partners, has extended its product offering after agreeing a reseller deal with Canon.

Paperlinx accuses leading paper manufacturer of anti-competitive behaviour

Paperlinx has logged a complaint against a major paper manufacturer claiming anticompetitive behaviour regarding indent sales and hinted that formal complaints against other manufacturers could be on...

Dufaylite launches first outdoor honeycomb board

Dufaylite has launched its first outdoor product, a polypropylene-based honeycomb board, which it claimed represents an eco-friendly alternative to MDF and PVC boards for outdoor work and long-life...

Me & my: Sun Chemical Streamline ESL HPQ inks

Third-party inks may be less expensive than OEM, but they haven’t always had the best reputation, so can Sun Chemical buck the trend?

Overmatter: Mo' mugs

Printers across the country have been gripping their Gillettes, wielding their Wilkinson Swords, and brandishing their Brauns – in some cases exposing flesh that hasn’t seen the light of day for...

Offset vendors seek inroads to digital

Call it what you will, the strategic coming together of vendors in the hope of becoming more than the sum of their parts is the topic du jour in print.

Price hikes are real threat to SMEs and could derail recovery

Energy firms “overcharge by £3.7bn a year”, ran one recent newspaper headline. Virtually every national newspaper, in fact, has reported accusations that the UK’s biggest energy companies have...

EFI claims IP 'victory' over Durst after German court invalidates patent

EFI has won the latest round of its long-running intellectual property dispute with Durst covering printing with white ink after the Federal Patent Court of Germany invalidated "substantial parts" of...