Books

Peterborough printer Bonacia has invested more than £300,000 on a new Kodak NexPress ZX3900 digital colour press.

St Ives has been dealt another blow with the loss of its contract to produce monochrome books for HarperCollins, which will result in a multimillion-pound hit to the group’s sales and profits.

UK Print, the company that rose from the ashes of the liquidated Houseprint, appears to be mirroring the practices of its former incarnation with clients reporting missing or late orders.

Commercial printer Printwell UK has invested £1m in a range of new equipment, including the second Xerox iGen 5 digital press in the country to be installed with all three of its fifth colour...

St Ives has initiated further cost-reduction measures in its Marketing Activation segment, leading its share price to fall to a six-month low.

St Ives Clays has become the first company in Europe to invest in Ricoh’s Drupa-launched Digital Book Printing Solution.

Swiss manufacturer Imaging Solutions (ISAG) has launched a new lay-flat bookbinding system aimed at high-end applications.

Independent trade publisher Austin Macauley Publishers is set to bolster the capacity of its new in-house printing facility after purchasing a second Ricoh Pro 8100SE digital printer.

Apple has published a landmark photobook charting the evolution of product design at the business, and featuring a raft of high-end print production techniques.

Baroness Floella Benjamin delivered a tour de force on the importance of printed books at this year British Book Design & Production Awards.

South West-based print finisher UK Bookbinders (UKB) has expanded its site by a third to increase its storage capacity and handle an influx of new jobs.

St Ives Clays is already reprinting the Man Booker prize winning book, which for the second year running has been published by independent publisher Oneworld Publications.