News

European trade unions including the GPMU are afraid that new plans for the production of the euro banknotes will lead to job losses among banknote printing staff across the continent

Vertis has added a layer of senior management to ensure operations run smoothly across the groups UK operations, owned by US company Big Flower

Apple Litho in Bristol has completed its 500,000 investment in new equipment with a complete Prinergy PDF workflow, Topsetter CTP system and digital proofing from Heidelberg

Roland DGA has become the only company that is able to offer Pantone Hexachrome-licensed wide-format printers

Global Graphics has reorganised its nine pre-press hardware subsidiaries and printing software companies into two divisions in a bid to "reflect the integration" of its businesses

Aprion Digital has signed up the first beta user for the 200m2-per-hour, six-colour roll-to-roll press it launched at Drupa

Walsall Security Printers (WSP) has acquired the name and production assets of Swiss stamp specialist Hlio Courvoisier

Maidenhead-based Williams Press has installed a Fujifilm Graphic Systems Luxel P-9600 CTP dual-beam platesetter running Brillia plates, replacing a ScanView Dot-Mate 7500

Birmingham-based Kalamazoo Security Print has created a sales manager position to lead its field sales team

ControlP has developed an online MIS software product, Internet Print Management System (IPMS), as it continues its migration from online print procurement to print software specialist

The Mouse House Group has claimed a UK first with the installation of an Image Control system on its second Heidelberg B2 74DI press, earmarked for 1 July

Brighton-based digital and litho printer XPS has relocated two Xerox DocuColor 2045 machines in a bid to increase efficiency

Robert Horne has launched two new major initiatives: M-Tronics, a total digital printing service, which has been in development for four years; and esp, a 24-hour electronic supply ordering system

The on-going saga between Inveresk and Klippan Paper seems to have swung in favour of the Scottish paper group, with the news that Phillips & Drew has withdrawn its support of Klippans plans

Polestar has been awarded a two-year contract worth around 180,000 a year to produce Fusion, the in-house magazine for finance sector trade union UNIFI