Digital

Photobox Group has acquired Greetz, the Dutch greetings card and personalised gifts giant, which it expects to increase sales of greetings cards across the group to up to 25 million this year.

A number of employees have been laid off at the sheetfed and digital operations of G&H Print Services, and the firm’s website has been taken down.

EFI and Duplo have unveiled a new timesaving integration between EFI’s Fiery production workflow for digital print machinery and Duplo’s slitter-cutter-creasers.

Digital and large-format printer Visual Print & Design has launched a new e-commerce platform offering more than 750 print and promotional products.

Awesome Merchandise has smashed its crowdfunding target and has now entered an ‘overfunding’ phase.

Heidelberg has provided an update on its Omnifire 4D printing system following a customer event in Germany, reporting it now has “double-digit” installs of the technology worldwide.

HP revealed a number of enhancements for its Indigo presses at the IGAS exhibition in Japan in July, including a screen to increase sharpness and a silver ink for metallic applications.

Heidelberg has reported an increase in orders and turnover as it closes the first quarter of the 2018-19 financial year, with its longer-term targets looking increasingly “realistic”.

New advertising industry research has reported that while direct mail activity is feeling the effects of a corrective slowdown following recent growth, spending on printed display ads for national...