Digital

Scottish printer Montgomery Litho Group's (MLG) resurrection has polarised industry opinion.

Digital Print Zone has boosted its turnover by 100% since being taken over by director Ali Buckman, who bought in a raft of new equipment in 2012.

Bristol-based Apple Litho has brought its digital work in-house with the acquisition of a Heidelberg Linoprint C901 digital press.

Graphic Printing Technologies (GPT) has launched a "unique" wide-format solvent printer to meet the needs of production oriented users.

Danwood Group Holdings has suspended four of its senior managers, including founder and chairman Colin Daniels, pending investigation.

As technology continues to improve, litho presses are currently getting much better at short-run, on-demand work. But platesetters must keep apace, too, if those gains are really going to be effective

Speculation is rife as to who the identity of the mystery bidder pursuing Xeikon after the Belgian digital press manufacturer announced the possible takeover last week.

Kodak has received court approval for the $525m (327m) sale of its digital imaging patents, once valued at more than $2.5bn, although the judge admitted to being "disappointed in the price".

Scottish print firm Montgomery Litho Group (MLG) has appointed provisional liquidators after a major customer loss forced the company into financial difficulty.

Wiltshire print company Ripe Digital has become the UK's first customer for the Mohr 56 ECO guillotine.