Print technology manufacturer LumeJet is aiming to become the first crowdfunded digital printing machine and printhead manufacturer.

Commercial printer Swallowtail Print has invested around £1m in a secondhand Speedmaster XL 105-5+L to boost its productivity.

Astron founder David Mitchell has returned to print with a non-exec role and investment in Dublin-based packaging group Perigord Premedia.

Online trade printer Route One Print has bought a Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 75-4+L to boost its efficiency and print quality.

Finishing equipment supplier Friedheim has launched Herzog+Heymann's latest folding system, the KL 45, in the UK.

Graphic Packaging International (GPI) is currently commissioning the UK's first 18,000sph Speedmaster XL 145 at its Leeds carton printing site.

Heidelberg UK has hired digital sales specialist Darren Godfrey to help with the impending launch of new high-volume digital cutsheet production printers, the Linoprint CV and Linoprint CP.

Quark has revealed details of QuarkXPress 2015, the latest version of its print and digital publishing design and layout software.

Print Efficiently 2014 organisers and partners have hailed the show as a "huge success", with attendance up by a third compared to 2013 and a raft of sales reported across the board.

Capitalising on the ups has to take into account the potential downs, says Jo Francis