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Virtual event aims to provide an “immersive browsing experience”

Printing Expo opens virtual doors

Online exhibition Printing Expo has gone live with its first tranche of exhibitors.

Gibbons (Centre) with director of print Charlie Gibbons (L) and general manager Steve Omer (R)

KNP Litho boosts firepower with Xerox and Vivid spend

KNP Litho has invested in a Xerox Iridesse digital press and a brace of finishing machines from Vivid Laminating Technologies to enhance its service offering.

Reach: digital revenues are up, as is cross-promotion of national and regional titles

Reach updates on trading

Reach has described print circulations as “resilient” in a trading update ahead of its year-end results, but there’s no update on its print plant rationalisation plans as yet.

Greene: "I am excited to share all the new possibilities with our clients"

Precision Proco acquires fine art specialist WKG

Precision Proco Group has acquired WKG Print, formerly Witherbys, as it continues its plans for growth.

UK consumers are predicted to spend £7.5bn over Black Friday weekend this year

Printers get involved with 10th Black Friday

A raft of printers across the country have launched special offers and discounts on products and services as they embrace the 10th Black Friday event.

Daily deliveries could reduce

Ofcom: 'Universal Service could be reduced to five days'

Reducing the Royal Mail’s obligation to deliver post from six days a week to five would “still reflect postal users’ reasonable needs” according to Ofcom, in a new report published just as some DM...

Printing inks manufacturers have seen sales fall in 2020

Printing inks sales down as Covid-19 and Brexit hits confidence

Confidence has started to return to the UK coatings, printing inks and wallcoverings industries after an uncertain year, but it is still weaker than average and sales are down year-on-year, according...

Grafenia: web-to-print shops can be set up “in minutes not months”

Grafenia posts 'lockdown' results

Grafenia has described its half-year results as an “interim lockdown statement” with sales down, but three acquisitions made along with investment in services that it hopes will pay off in future.

Lores on HP's print results: "We delivered a strong quarter relative to the market conditions"

Full-year and Q4 print revenue down for HP

HP Inc’s sales in its Printing division and its overall revenue both showed declines in Q4 and for the full-year.

The Alegro A7 binder has increased running speeds at Pureprint

Pureprint in mega finishing install

Pureprint Group has invested in a raft of new finishing kit for its main commercial litho and digital production site in Uckfield, East Sussex.

Most of England falls under Tier 2

Spending Review and new tiers: reaction

A large UK paper and packaging group has called for the government to match German levels of ambition on sustainability following yesterday’s Spending Review, while BPIF CEO Charles Jarrold has warned...

The last Packaging Innovations event at the NEC took place in February

Packaging Innovations postponed to June 2021

Easyfairs’ flagship Birmingham Packaging Innovations event has been postponed to June 2021 as coronavirus-related restrictions continue to impact the events industry.

Banknotes: capacity is full in second half

De La Rue in "early discussions" on Covid certificates

Amid speculation that the UK government could bring in some sort of Covid-19 vaccination passport or certificate, De La Rue has confirmed that it is in “early discussions” with several countries over...

The new 7,250sqm site is currently under development

Whistl to move to larger Bristol depot

Delivery management group Whistl is set to relocate its Bristol operation to a new, larger purpose built site next year.

Picquet: "I am excited about the challenge ahead of me"

Former Duplo CEO returns to the top as Greenhalgh departs

Duplo International is set for a change of leadership in the new year, with former chief executive Bruno Picquet taking the reins as current chairman and chief executive Robin Greenhalgh steps down.