Datum started back in 1988 in Shoreditch, London, as a pre-press company supplying plates and proofs to the local litho printers. It left behind its London roots in 2000 when the business relocated to...

Ali Ridha Jaffar, sales director at Print Express (part of the Syncoms Group), does not like traffic.

In the early days of wide-format inkjet printing, the technology was held in check from encroaching on screen and litho markets by limitations in printing itself.

Commercial printer Gpex has invested around £300,000 in a range of new wide-format print and finishing equipment to enable it to target new markets.

IST (UK) has launched a service that will enable UK printers to retrofit LE-UV, LED-UV/LUV or conventional UV drying technology onto installed or secondhand equipment.

Heidelberg southern sales manager Derek Gillard is to hand over the reins to "natural successor" Neil Fletcher in time for Drupa.

Delta Print and Packaging chairman Terry Cross has been awarded an OBE in the Queen's New Year's Honours list for services to the economy and voluntary service to the community in Northern Ireland.

John Brailsford Printers is celebrating its 30th year in business with a £220,000 Xerox and Schneider Senator investment.

The Bath-based branch of Minuteman Press has invested in a Xerox 1000i to enable it to take advantage of gold, silver and clear inks.

Graphica Display has become the first UK business to install an Agfa Jeti Mira UV-inkjet flatbed printer.