Printing

Fespa's non-European members to get full voting rights

Fespa has changed its membership structure to give full voting rights to non-European national member associations.

Antalis launches dry/liquid toner D2B swatches

Antalis McNaughton has developed two new swatches to help digital colour printers identify which substrates to print on for the best results with both dry and liquid toner digital presses.

Andrew Pindar leaves York Mailing

York Mailing and former Pindar chairman Andrew Pindar have parted company amicably.

Crossprint recognised by Ricoh for carbon balanced printing

Isle of Wight-based commercial printer Crossprint is the first UK company to be signed up to Ricoh's Carbon Balanced Production Printing Programme.

X-Rite consolidates colour kit under eXact umbrella

X-Rite will consolidate its existing range of colour measurement devices into a single series, the X-Rite eXact, from 12 November.

Mark Andy owner AIP completes Presstek acquisition

American Industrial Partners (AIP), the private equity owner of narrow and mid-web flexo press maker Mark Andy, has completed its $26m (16.2m) purchase of direct imaging press builder Presstek.

Create your own print horror flick with AlphaGraphics North East

AlphaGraphics North East (AGNE) has added a cross media marketing "movie star" experience to its website, in time for Halloween.

Hopkins Printing brings in new Speedmaster XL 106

Columbus, OH based Hopkins Printing has purchased a new Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 106 five color offset printing press, which will be installed in Q1 of next year.

Hurricane Sandy's impact on commercial printing seen as 'minimal'

Commercial printers along the US East Coast largely escape major damage as Hurricane Sandy triggered high winds, floods and powers outages from Virginia and Carolinas all the way through the...

Lightning Source UK eproofing emails queried

Concerns have been raised over the wording used by a print-on-demand (POD) specialist in its emails to customers advising them about their e-proofing process.

Star product: Pageflex 8.0

For printers looking to break into or expand their high-margin web-to-print work, the latest version of this package has a lot to offer

Overdraft cuts putting SME survival on the line, new research finds

Nearly three quarter of SMEs have had their overdrafts limited by their finance providers despite 89% of firms claiming they would survive less than three months without the facility, new research has...