Books

Print firm fined £13,000 after worker loses finger

Ashford Colour Press has been fined £13,000 and ordered to pay £1,278 in costs after a worker lost a finger and seriously injured another during unsafe maintenance work on a bookbinding machine last...

Barnard & Westwood plays host to HRH The Duke of York

HRH The Duke of York visited printing and bookbinding company Barnard & Westwood last Thursday (May 29).

Clays bolsters short-run capabilities with Timson and Kolbus kit

St Ives Clays has taken its digital investment to £2.5m over the past six months with the purchase of new Timson finishing equipment for its wide-web Timson T-Press and a Kolbus short-run hardback...

BT&D closure leaves buyers in lurch

A number of print buyers have been left scrambling to find alternative suppliers following last week’s announcement that the book printing operation of Butler Tanner & Dennis is to close – with one...

Fine bindings go on display at St Bride

An exhibition of contemporary book binding is underway at London’s St Bride Foundation, featuring the craft of UK and USA-based fine binding specialists.

GF Smith pledges 'exceptional' quality with new book service

GF Smith has gone live with its new bespoke photobook service ‘Make Book’.

Book printing blow as BT&D closure announced

The book printing operation of Butler Tanner & Dennis in Frome is being put into administration with co-owner Felix Dennis describing it as “a sad day for British book printing”.

HP's MagCloud now part of Blurb

Online publishing platform Blurb has taken over HP’s MagCloud business.

New book production courses via BIC

BIC, the book industry supply chain organisation, has set up a new suite of book production training courses that will commence next year.

MPG's T-Print bound for US

The Timsons T-Print from MPG’s King’s Lynn site has been sold to a large American book printer.

Frankfurt Book Fair: 'Print will always be important'

The chief executive of the world's largest trade book publisher has stressed the ongoing importance of print whilst taking part in a panel discussion at the Frankfurt Book Fair last week (9-13...

Clays feeling v red faced and like a right Rodney over Bridget Jones mix-up

A production error at St Ives Clays resulted in yesterday's most-read story on the BBC website.