Digital printing

XIC managing director Bill Fawcett has sold the business he founded 32 years ago to an MBO team led by director of operations Murray Alexander.

Global Graphics Software is endeavouring to iron out the kinks of inkjet printing with the release of two new screen software applications that improve performance on a range of substrates.

Exhibition and events specialist Keyboard Group has taken on a brace of HP Latex 1500 wide-format printers and a Zünd G3 3XL3200 to rejuvenate and expand its offering.

Koenig & Bauer is working “intensively” on new products for the packaging, digital and industrial printing markets, after filing a strong set of results for its latest financial year.

Grafenia has made moves to angle its Nettl offering more towards web-first and signage due to challenges in traditional print, as it heads towards the end of its 2017/18 financial year.

Heidelberg has unveiled the Versafire EV, the latest in its Versafire family of digital printers, for both the four- and five-colour market.

Hatch Print has become the first UK printer to receive official accreditation from the Vegetarian Society.

Xaar hopes to make “at least one” acquisition this year and the business has maintained its ambitions to boost sales by more than £100m in order to achieve its 2020 growth target.

Delga Press will be the first UK firm to run an HP Indigo 12000 HD for dedicated packaging applications when it installs the machine at the start of April.

Komori UK has appointed John Harrison as its first-ever head of digital and finishing sales in a bid to increase its prominence in the digital printing market.

Riso has already secured pre-orders from a number of UK customers for its new T2 high-speed colour inkjet printer.

Adare Secure Essential Communications (SEC) has now gone live with the UK’s first Hunkeler CS8 cross-cutter, signalling a 20% increase in speed upon its predecessor.