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I swear by my Horizon StitchLiner

This investment has given us the confidence to offer customers a wider range of services. Previously, we had a lot of bottlenecks and we sometimes had to lift jobs to complete shorter runs by the...

Star Product: Ideal DigiCut guillotine

Ideal has launched its new digital guillotine, the 5222 DigiCut, in the UK. The machine is the latest addition to the German manufacturer's guillotine and shredder line, supplied in the UK by Duplo...

Star Product: HDP fount solution

HDP has launched Freedom Fount, which it has described as a one-stop alcohol replacement solution. Aimed at sheetfed printers that want to reduce or eliminate IPA from their systems, the fount is IPA-...

30-Second Debate - Are printers being paid on time by their customers?

<i>As the economic climate becomes increasingly gloomy and the credit crunch begins to hit more businesses, we ask if printing customers are stalling on invoices and failing to meet their suppliers'...

Job changer: Jon Parvin

Jon Parvin has rejoined Friary Press as managing director, after leaving the company last summer.

Morgana hails post-Drupa sales success

UK finishing equipment manufacturer Morgana Systems has lauded the worldwide response to two of its new machines.

Centralise to set the spokes in order

A hub and spoke model, where a centralised factory serves a number of shop-front locations, is generally taken when a large litho press is used for ganged-up jobs. AlphaGraphics North East (AGNE),...

Replenishing the printing staff stock

If you believe recent statistics, there are few printers under 48 years old currently manning the UK's presses. A worrying statistic seeing as the current state of print-related apprenticeships within...

Northend hints at acquisition ambitions following XL 75 buy

Commercial printer Northend has said it is on the acquisition trail having bolstered its print capacity by 40% with a 1m spend on a five-unit Heidelberg XL 75 with coater.

Adobe announces launch date for CS4

Adobe will unveil the latest version of its cross-media design and publishing software Creative Suite 4 (CS4) this month, in a bid to up the ante in its continuing battle with rival Quark.