Scotland

Sprint Direct, the hardware division of reseller Sprint Solutions, has announced a series of open days in Kirkintilloch and Aberdeen.

Scottish printer Bell & Bain has become the UK’s first company to install the Konica Minolta bizhub C1085.

Scottish screen printing firm DENA Screenprint has invested in a Heidelberg Polar 78 ECO guillotine to bring its technology up to date.

Dundee-based publisher DC Thomson is to launch a new weekly news magazine, The Stooshie.

John Watson & Co has been bought by Cincinnati, Ohio-based Multi-Color Corporation (MCC) less than a year after the collapse of its proposed sale to Canadian labels group CCL Industries.

Dantex has been appointed as European distributor for Screen's Truepress Jet L350UV label press, which had its official European launch at Labelexpo this week.

Ed Miliband will announce plans to freeze small business rates for two years, from April 2015 to April 2017, in his keynote speech at the Labour Party conference this afternoon.

CFH has invested £1.4m in a raft of Xerox equipment to boost output and services at two of its print and mail sites.

UK Mail's hybrid mailing service, imail, has opened a new sort centre with print capability as part of an investment set to total 750,000.

The Scottish government has confirmed its commitment to introducing standardised tobacco packaging, after England delays similar proposals.

Tayprint has spent 830,000 on two HP Scitex machines to push itself into new markets.

Printagraph has installed the first Xerox iGen 150 press in Scotland and said its print quality alone makes it worth its 500,000 price tag.