Printers

Print still performs many roles that online cannot

You can read a magazine online or a book on a mobile device, but you can't use a website to decorate a lorry or package an LP, so many B2B print applications are unlikely to be filched by the internet

Trading status of remaining Aldersons companies unclear

The administrators of the four operating companies of Aldersons Print Group are to issue an update on the trading status of the companies next week.

PIA projects modest US growth for 2013

The Printing Industries of America (PIA) has said the US printing industry in 2013 should be up slightly from 2012, despite the fact commercial printers across the country won't be benefitting from...

DC Thomson signs up to Wave2 Media's AdPortal

DC Thomson is set to roll out Wave2 Media's AdPortal3 print advertising workflow tool across its newspapers business six years after first installing the platform at one of its subsidiaries.

Laserline directors buy back business with newco I Am Print

Digital printer Laserline has been sold via a pre-pack administration to I Am Print, an affiliated web-to-print business set up by two Laserline directors in July, although it is hoped that there will...

Fastsigns targets growth following successful 2012

Fastsigns Hammersmith is targeting the 500,000 turnover mark by the end of 2013 after a successful 10 months under new ownership.

HPM ramps up perfect binding with Muller Martini spend

HPM Group has invested nearly 500,000 in a Muller Martini Pantera 1577 perfect binding line with a Merit S three-knife trimmer in response to print buyers increasingly switching from stitched to...

Vertis files for Chapter 11 as Quad/Graphics bids to buy assets

Quad/Graphics has announced a $258.5m (161m) bid for rival direct marketing business Vertis Holdings as the latter filed for Chapter 11 "to facilitate the intended sale".

'Rights-for-shares' scheme divides print opinion

Government plans to allow workers to trade employment rights for tax-free shares under new "employee-owner" contracts from April 2013 have split opinion in the print industry.

Workers to swap rights for shares in radical UK employment law shake-up

Workers will be able to sign away some of their employment rights in exchange for shares of up to 50,000 in the business they work for, under a radical plan to rewrite UK employment law.