Drupa

GI Solutions Group has signed off a circa £5m spend to move into full-width high-speed inkjet web, as it looks to migrate more litho work to digital and significantly boost capacity.

Three UK printers were among those which chose KBA this Drupa, helping to propel the German manufacturer to a €100m sales boom.

Adare Group is increasing its high-speed colour inkjet capacity by 50% with a £3.3m spend with Ricoh.

Print companies from the UK, supported by the British Printing Industry Confederation (Picon), have reported a good Drupa for sales and footfall.

Drupa 2016 exhibitors seem to have summed up the show in two words: “exceeded expectations”.

HP has announced double digit sales of its HP Indigo 30000 Digital Presses for folding carton applications.

Flint Group has launched two new offset inks, four LED and low-energy curing inks and two food-grade UV curing inks for food packaging printing on board and synthetics.

Spanish-based Clickar is showing its new Lala print product at Drupa, which it says is the first web-to-print programme with augmented reality.

Foiling specialist Kurz (3-D60) has sold two of its DM-Liner toner transfer foiling machines launched at Drupa, which it believes is the biggest such device in the world.