Digital printing

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.

Heidelberg has scored something of a coup, by signing up a packaging printer originally named as one of Landa’s beta sites to be a pilot user of its Primefire 106 B1 inkjet press.

Kodak has reversed its decision to sell off its Prosper and Ultrastream inkjet operations and will now retain them, after the offers received “did not reflect the value of the business”.

Benny Landa’s Landa Labs division is taking its nano pigment technology into automotive coatings through a new strategic partnership with BASF.