Companies & suppliers

Inkjet media manufacturer Ilford has announced it is expanding its Omnijet range of commercial wide format offerings with three new professional canvas products.

BASF has announced it is taking steps to stop the distribution of counterfeit versions of its Irgacure 819 photoinitiator product.

International Greetings is investing £6m in a major switch from gravure to flexo printing at its main Welsh giftwrap production facility.

HP has announced the Enhanced Color Pack upgrade for its Scitex FB7600 and upgraded FB7500 industrial flatbed printers.

SMP Group has invested 500,000 in a new Durst Rho P10 250 UV wide-format printer as part of its ongoing investment strategy.

Kodak announced this week it has agreed to sell assets from its Document Imaging business to office equipment maker Brother Industries in a cash deal worth $210m (137m).

RnB Direct Mail has invested 80,000 in a nine-station Buhrs BB300 envelope inserting system with camera matching.

Amid the increasingly fractious debate about Baroness Thatcher's legacy, printers are seeing benefits as book demand soars.

Midland-based printing firm Emmerson Press recorded its best ever quarter at the start of this year, with 1m in sales.

A wide-format digital printer has doubled the size of its premises after an explosion in interest in printing on canvas.