Companies & suppliers

Wide-format kit servicing company Tech8 has extended its breakdown cover and preventative maintenance schemes to cater for more printer and ink combinations.

Royal Mail has today announced the launch of the Strategic Mailing Partnership (SMP) in cooperation with leading direct mail (DM) firms in a bid to "shape the future of the mailing house industry".

Fujifilm Europe has appointed Ryuta Masui as senior vice-president of the company's Graphic Systems division.

QuarkXPress has offered a free year's membership to the QuarkAlliance Output Provider Programme to all existing QuarkAlliance and Adobe Partner Program members.

Printbylaser has installed a Heidelberg Suprasetter A75 alongside its existing Suprasetter H75 in order to meet increased demand for B3 short-run work.

Hiflex has appointed Volker Mohr to the position of web-to-print sales manager as a result of the print industry's growing interest in online storefronts.

Unite members at Polestar Sheffield have voted in favour of an "unprecedented" three-year pay deal that has secured the future stability of the site.

Around 60 staff at BemroseBooth could face redundancy as a result of the company's planned move to new premises in Derby, according to reports.

Staff at Polestar Sheffield have begun voting on a three-year pay deal tabled by the company in a last ditch attempt to avoid a decision that could lead to industrial action at the site.