Books

Ashford Colour Press has slashed turnaround times for short-run book jobs by installing a Horizon HT-30 three-side trimmer.

Bottom line losses at St Ives have ballooned to £44.1m, and the group has reported a collapse in the profitability of its up-for-sale printing operations.

John Charnock has made a surprise return to print management, and has been appointed as the new managing director of Nicholson Bass, one of the oldest printing companies in Northern Ireland.

Pureprint has completed a job using HP’s Mosaic personalisation software for 8,000 magazines with unique covers for Eye magazine.

Gomer Press has taken its first step into LE-UV with a circa-£1.7m investment in a Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 106 LE-UV.

Pureprint has boosted its cyber security standards with the addition of the Cyber Essentials Plus accreditation.

St Ives has put out its second positive trading update in as many months, resulting in an upturn in the group’s share price.

The company formerly known as Houseprint appears to have changed identity again and complaints are continuing to flood in from disgruntled clients.

Commercial printer Printexpress has invested around £40,000 in two new Konica Minolta presses and a Watkiss binder in a bid to bring book production in-house.

Pureprint has expanded its packaging operation by relocating it to a new larger site in Hertfordshire.

Commercial printer Charlesworth Press has invested in a Horizon BQ-470 four-clamp perfect binder to support increasing demand for personalised books.

Printondemand-worldwide has become the first company in the UK to invest in Muller Martini’s InfiniTrim fully variable three-knife trimmer, rounding off a £1.8m investment initiated at the end of last...