Digital printing

KBA Group posted 20% more orders in the first quarter of 2017 than in the same period last year with a “substantial increase” in orders for medium-format sheetfed presses, particularly in southern...

The PrintWeek FespaDaily team’s round up of some of the stories from Day three of the show at the Hamburg Messe.

HP has launched two mid-range Latex printers at Fespa as well as a series of enhancements to its PageWide printers and an automated feeder for its flagship HP Scitex 17000.

Adventa (A1-E19) has launched QuickPro Direct, a canvas wall art product for flatbed printers, at its inaugural Fespa.

Czech Republic manufacturer Qres Technologies (A1-C66) is using this year’s show to launch its latest flatbed printer, the Q200.

Dover Corporation has headhunted Heidelberg’s Jason Oliver to head up its new digital printing group.

Textile printing specialist Kiian Digital (B6-D65) is using Fespa to unveil a disperse digital textile ink for direct printing on machines fitted with Kyocera printheads.

Digital Graphics Incorporation (DGI, B6-B80) is using Fespa as the European launchpad for three digital textile printers it claims can beat rivals on speed, quality and price.

One of Northern Ireland’s biggest commercial printers has ramped up production with a £450,000 spend centred on upgrading its pre-press operation and the installation of what it claimed was the first...

Creative print and direct mail company ThreeFiveFour has invested £126,000 in a Ricoh Pro C9110 to increase its productivity and quality and improve its turnaround times.

Deloitte has effectively called time on Anton Group, with just a handful of staff remaining on site and the firm’s remaining unencumbered assets in the final process of being sold.

Badger Print & Design has upgraded its digital print facility with the installation of a Xerox Versant 80 digital press.