Web to print

Epson has unveiled a new family of four-colour SureColor large-format modular printers, which includes models with built-in scanners aimed at commercial printers and copyshops.

Vistaprint will open its first permanent UK office this summer after reaching agreement on a premises in Kings Cross, London.

Micropress Printers is expanding its web-to-print offering with an additional B2C site.

Grafenia boss Tony Rafferty handed out more than 1,000 copies of his new book about web-to-print at Ipex.

The government is set to introduce regulations that will pave the way for a ban on branded tobacco packaging in the UK.

Vistaprint will acquire a 97% stake in Italian web-to-print business Pixartprinting for a base price of €127m (£105m) while the company's founder Matteo Rigamonti will retain a 3% stake.

Debenhams has expanded its in-house print operation to include all product labelling, previously outsourced to bureaus in the UK and the Far East, after the addition of a Xerox iGen150 and Nuvera 157.

Precision Printing signed for £450,000 worth of layflat and case-binding kit from Duplo at Ipex to enable the firm to boost its high-value, high-impact corporate and on-demand offering.

Infigo Software (ISL, N1-D093) has launched a new photobook module for its Catfish W2P software at Ipex.

Exploiting the full potential of W2P helped bring an old-fashioned firm bang up to date.