Watkiss Automation is to unveil Mamo’s new Plasti 350 XP single- and double-sided laminator at next month’s PrintWeekLive!.

A1 Security Print has spent £160,000 on a Nipson DigiFlex web-fed digital printer to grow its variable personalisation capacity.

Precision Colour Printing is shelling out more than £2.7m for Europe’s first nine-colour RMGT 1050 Tandem Perfector sheetfed press, currently being bespoke-built for the company in Japan.

Fujifilm is laying down a gauntlet by inviting print bosses to challenge the capabilities of its Jet Press 720S during a month-long open house.

Post-press manufacturer Hunkeler has used its biennial trade show to launch the next generation of its Printed Online Paper Processing (POPP) finishing modules, the POPP8.

Commercial printer Versatility in Print has invested in a Xerox Versant 80 digital press to boost capacity.

HP has grown its turnover in the first quarter of 2017 by 4% compared with the same period in 2016 – from $12.2bn to $12.7bn (£10.4bn) – and overall profits are also up from $592m to $611m.

Ricoh has added to its range of continuous-feed inkjet printers with the launch of the Pro VC40000.

Grafenia has issued a second profits warning ahead of its year-end, with soft trading combined with the price war in trade printing impacting the group’s performance.

The BPIF is urging printers to support its call for the government to review its conditions for the creation of a 'trailblazer' print apprenticeship standard.