Heidelberg chairman Bernhard Schreier predicted 2010 will be a great year for the printing industry during his keynote address at US digital print show On Demand this week.<br><br>

Astron is closing its digital printing centre in south London and moving work to its facilities management sites in the City and its Huntingdon headquarters

Litho Supplies is making a substantial seven-figure investment in a new operations hub for the South East in Greenford, west London

Direct To Plate, the firm that services Krause equipment in the UK, has moved into sales, filling the gap left by the demise of Krause UK last year

Shere Arts has had its two InfoColor digital presses worth almost 1m removed by IBM

Horton Print Group in Bradford has installed the first KBA Rapida 74 in the country

Vertis Europe managing director Adriaan Roosen has quashed speculation that the group could be planning to sell the print operations of the former Colorgraphic business

A team of ex-Heidelberg engineers has formed a company to handle the sales and service of Hell gravure equipment in the UK.

Electronic Solutions has appointed David Russell as technical sales director.

Pre-press Direct is selling secondhand platesetters for the first time.