Printers

Reflex Group in double acquisition and £10m equipment spend

Reflex Group has continued to expand after acquiring two businesses, Progressive-ID and Century Art, for an undisclosed sum.

Park directors raise more than £5,000 for cancer charity

Two directors of Park Communications are taking to their bicycles this weekend to pedal all the way to Amsterdam to raise thousands of pounds for charity.

Q&A: Steve Miller, production director, Statexcolourprint

Steve spent three years at technical college gaining A levels in photography, fine art and screenprinting and a diploma in television production.

Tangled web sector signals crunch time for buyers

The web offset sector has experienced another turbulent year, with further closures, lay-offs and major capacity loss all hitting the industry.

Pitney Bowes secures long-term Communisis contract

Communisis has appointed Pitney Bowes as a long-term transactional mail hardware and software supplier in a move it said will drive productivity and continuous improvement initiatives.

CPI reveals plans for NFC-powered printed energy harvester

The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) has formed part of a UK-based consortium to develop a mass-market printed energy-harvesting device powered via near-field communication.

60 seconds with JR Print

JR Print evolved out of the Crawley Courier back in the 1960s. David Want (pictured) and David Meadham “the two Daves” took over in 2000 and developed it into a litho digital mix commercial print...

DC Thomson Streams UK first with bespoke Broons

The Sunday Post newspaper ran a special £10,000 competition in a comic strip insert featuring the paper’s popular characters The Broons. Individual codes were printed in each of 210,000 copies of the...

Q&A: John B Easson, owner and entire staff, The Quarto Press

John started drawing lettering at school and took up printing as a student in 1963 while studying physics. He lectured on printing technology for 20 years and ran The Quarto Press, printing and...

Me & my: Heidelberg Suprasetter A75

"We specialise in everything we get our hands on,” says Marstan Press pre-press manager Adam Curtis.