Books

Bell & Bain has embarked upon a multimillion-pound investment programme, including the first Horizon Smart Binding System in Europe and a new KBA Rapida 145 large-format litho press.

GF Smith is publishing a 100-page crowd-sourced photobook to provide “an authoritative tool for the print buyer and photographer”.

CPI is set to invest in a second Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 106 and a pre-press upgrade as part of a strategy to grow its commercial printing division.

Bertelsmann is to create Europe’s biggest printing group by putting all its print operations under one umbrella.

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.