Printers

Image Visual Communications (IVC) is to replace a Kodak M700 printer with a Heidelberg Linoprint C751 digital press later this month.

Ex St Ives marketing director Rob Kelly has re-entered the print production arena after acquiring the South London large format business with business partner Peter Sheldrick.

St Ives Direct Leeds is set to be closed after St Ives announced plans to consolidate its direct mail offering at its Bradford facility.

Buckingham-based print business BCQ Print has invested in Fujifilm's XMF cross-media workflow to help "increase the efficiency, quality and consistency of its output".

BGP has printed 1.5m copies of two booklets featuring 40 vegetarian recipes from celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall for Telegraph Media Group, for inclusion in this weekend's newspapers.

The Bodmin-based firm will take over CUP's European print work this month after two-thirds of the Cambridge staff voted in favour of the deal last week.

Walstead Investments chairman Mark Scanlon has described competitors in the web offset market as "totally supine", while unveiling full-year results for 2011.

A public sector print framework worth up to 150m has been awarded to 10 UK print suppliers, including 3M, Xerox UK, Office Depot and Corporate Document Services (CDS).

The Bramwell Labels Company secured funding for two new machines by shopping around to guarantee the best loan rates.

Tangent will put its Printed.com business at the heart of its growth strategy after chief executive Timothy Green hailed the success of the business at yesterday's AGM.

Fujitsu has installed three Océ Jetstream inkjet colour presses in a bid to "revolutionise" documents sent out by HMRC, for whom it provides an outsourced print service.

Digital colour printing is an opportunity for book printers to win back work that is currently being offshored, according to speakers at last week's annual London Digital Book Printing Forum.