Litho

In2Print has renewed its contract with Cheltenham Town FC, which will see the Cheltenham-based printer produce the football club’s match day programme for a fifteenth consecutive year.

Commercial print and design company Truprint Media has invested around £200,000 in a secondhand Komori L-528 five-colour B2 litho press and StudioRIP Workflow to increase its competitiveness.

Landa Corporation has dismissed Manroland Sheetfed’s claims regarding the conditions attached to the two companies partnership, and also the performance of the Landa Nanographic Printing Presses.

Trade printer Calderprint has rounded off a circa £1m spend this year with the UK’s first Shinohara since the Japanese litho press manufacturer was bought by Hans Gronhi two years ago.

Woodrow Press has invested in a second five-colour Heidelberg SM 74 to boost productivity and reduce makeready times.

The Munken Polar grade from graphic fine paper manufacturer Arctic Paper UK has been used for Alive: In the Face of Death, a book by British photographer Rankin.

Commercial litho printer Acorn Press has invested in two new Heidelberg Stahlfolders, including the first BH series buckle folder to be installed in the UK and a TH 56.

Russell Printers has bought embroidered workwear company BCR Workwear to expand its services.

J Thomson Colour Printers is to print the programmes for the 2014 Commonwealth Games, which will be held in Glasgow from 23 July to 3 August.

Interprint has brought its laminating in-house after buying a Bagel Systems B2 DigiFav laminator.

Two former directors of Sheffield-based ProCo have set up a new commercial print operation in the city.

Portobello Press has fallen into administration after a potential buyer pulled out at the last minute, resulting in the loss of 23 jobs.