Print buying

Marstan Press has crowned the installation of its new press by gaining Heidelberg ISO 12647-2 colour certification and joining the vendor’s Colour Club of accredited printers.

Environmental art venture Project Hangup was supplied by Antalis for its latest work, a limited edition of linocuts to highlight the plight of the mountain gorilla.

Boden has executed its most ambitious personalised catalogue campaign yet, by allowing children to create their own cover designs for the MiniBoden summer catalogue, in what is believed to be a first...

Wyndeham Group will keep Southernprint open, despite the loss of the IPC Media contract, thanks to a new working time agreement with staff.

Callprint Group has acquired London-based digital print and repro rival Premier Reprographics to boost its presence in the capital and broaden its international reach.

The new owner of Advent Colour, the circa £8m turnover Andover-based commercial printer sold in a pre-pack deal a month ago, has been revealed in documents filed at Companies House.

A number of print buyers have been left scrambling to find alternative suppliers following last week’s announcement that the book printing operation of Butler Tanner & Dennis is to close – with one...

An exhibition of contemporary book binding is underway at London’s St Bride Foundation, featuring the craft of UK and USA-based fine binding specialists.

GF Smith has gone live with its new bespoke photobook service ‘Make Book’.

UKIP and the Labour Party have scored something of a political own-goal by having election materials printed in Germany.

The book printing operation of Butler Tanner & Dennis in Frome is being put into administration with co-owner Felix Dennis describing it as “a sad day for British book printing”.

CDS has won a four-year, £7m-plus deal to manage the marcomms print spend for one of the UK’s largest local authorities.