Printers

Polestar has announced plans for a £50m spend on new web offset kit, including the first 96pp commercial web presses in the UK.

An UK envelope manufacturer and a stockist and overprinter have merged to produce an integrated company with a global outlook.

Web-to-print company Pixartprinting bounced into the Easter market with seasonally themed boxes.

Orlando, FL-based Labels in Motion has purchased and installed a Xeikon 3500 digital label press to drive its business and has been so pleased it is already looking at a second one.

Rapid Repro and Design has invested in a Ricoh C901 S1 digital printer to install in its new Tottenham facility.

Social media has proved the perfect sales tool for UK manufacturer Autobond after it sold two machines to an American publisher through LinkedIn.

Tidewater Direct has installed a new six-unit Sunday 2000 press at its Centreville, MD facility as it targets greater market share in the high-quality color direct mail and inserts business.

Lanarkshire-based OPG has used one of its three HP latex printers to produce a range of interior graphics for new restaurant Cafe Eataliano in Hamilton.

Surrey-based commercial printer Ormside Press will upgrade its CTP and workflow systems next month following the install in January of a Heidelberg CD102 B1 five-colour press, plus coater.

The government has outlined its plan to boost SME lending via the state-owned Business Bank, which will become the vehicle through which all government finance initiatives are administered.

RCS printers in Retford has secured a deal with a chocolate company to create advent-calendar-esque count down products and is closing in on a personalised gift packaging deal with a major high street...