Digital printing

Pensord cuts makeready times with UK's first 10-colour Speedmaster SX 102
Pensord Press expects to boost like-for-like efficiency by between 30% and 40% when it takes delivery of the UK’s first 10-colour Speedmaster SX 102-10P press early next year.

Director focuses on side project after Digital Print Zone goes into liquidation
Surrey wide-format printer Digital Print Zone (DPZ) is in liquidation after suffering a Paperlinx-related cashflow crisis and building up £400,000 in debts.

Blackmore wins £250,000 of work on back of UK's first KBA AMS Rapida 105
Blackmore has won around £250,000 of new work since February specifically related to its new four-colour KBA Rapida 105 press, the first in the UK fitted with Air Motion Systems' LED curing...

First Display gears up for Edinburgh Festival with first flatbed
Orders to print hundreds of boards for the forthcoming Edinburgh Festival mean that an Edinburgh printer’s latest investment has arrived not a moment too soon.

Digital label finisher to launch at Labelexpo
A new high-speed label-finishing machine is due to be launched by Prati at Labelexpo Europe in September.

Tangent warns on profits as Snowball disappoints
Tangent Communications has sacked the boss of its underperforming Tangent Snowball marketing agency and issued a profits warning for the full year.

Pressision targets faster payments with Duplo spend
High-end commercial printer Pressision is set to install a Duplo multi-finisher at its Leeds headquarters to broaden its work mix and speed up its print to invoice time.

"Things have really picked up" says family firm after investment
A traditional book binders has won a four-year contract and a slew of new work following a £70,000 investment.

Heidelberg plots growth strategy
Heidelberg is pledging a “return to growth” in the future, despite posting sales down 4% for 2014/2015 including a 15-month contribution from Gallus.

PressOn signs licensing deal with South African wallpaper company
Kent printer PressOn has signed a manufacturing and distribution deal with South African wallpaper designer Robin Sprong.

Braver clients drive £5m investment at Howard Hunt
Direct marketing client budgets are up 10%-15% since the end of the recession and clients are being more innovative according to one of Howard Hunt’s new joint managing directors.

FE Burman becomes latest member of 10000 club
FE Burman has become the latest firm to buy the circa £1m HP Indigo 10000 B2 digital press, part of its plan to target new business.