Books

Precision Printing has given a huge boost to automation of packaging for photobooks after installing a CMC CartonWrap 500 box-on-demand system.

An immediate paperback reprint of 80,000 copies of Man Booker Prize winner A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James is underway at printer Clays.

German web-to-print company Unitedprint, which runs online print brand Print24, is eyeing a further boost to its UK sales after launching more than 100 new products this summer.

Printers are set to benefit from the biggest ‘Super Thursday’ yet as Christmas book sales are predicted to top £500m.

Six generations of the Baddeley family will be celebrated in a book published this week by the eponymous specialist printer and envelope maker.

Sales at St Ives’ Strategic Marketing operation have topped £100m as the group reported year-end results under its new structure.

Berforts Information Press (BIP), one of the last dedicated colour book printers in the UK, has been placed in administration.

St Ives has described trading in its large-format print wing as “challenging” ahead of its year-end results, but still expects to post figures that are in line with market expectations.

Bigger is no longer better for RR Donnelley – the giant printing and communications conglomerate has decided to break itself up into three separate businesses.

A new book celebrates the history of once-mighty British book printer Butler & Tanner.

A printing error has been blamed for missing text in a number of copies of one of this century’s most hotly anticipated books.

The Precision Group has invested £2.75m over the past month as it revamps its operations in London and Sunderland.