The Ipswich-based web and sheetfed printer has bought a Komori GL1040P as part of an investment programme that the company hopes will increase turnover by up to 2m.

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Frank Deschuytere, currently vice president of R&D at telecommunications equipment manufacturer OTN Systems, will join Xeikon as chief executive on 1 January 2013.

Océ has launched a clear polypropylene film, for use with its Arizona flatbed UV presses, that gives a three dimensional effect to anything that is printed on it.

You can read a magazine online or a book on a mobile device, but you can't use a website to decorate a lorry or package an LP, so many B2B print applications are unlikely to be filched by the internet