Sheetfed presses

Precision Colour Printing is shelling out more than £2.7m for Europe’s first nine-colour RMGT 1050 Tandem Perfector sheetfed press, currently being bespoke-built for the company in Japan.

Former Mitsubishi and KBA sales manager Phil Murphy has passed away after a long illness.

Ryobi’s UK agent Apex has said that the UK print industry is on the verge of reaching a tipping point in the adoption of LED-UV litho, which it believes represents the future for litho.

Heidelberg has reported a sharp drop in sales in Q1, but almost halved its operating losses in the period.

Heidelberg has upgraded its VLF XL 145 and XL 162 presses with running speed increased by up to 20% to 18,000 sheets per hour for the XL 145.

Manroland Sheetfed will roll out ‘the next evolution’ of its presses in 2015, with its owner predicting ‘something of a recovery’ in press sales.

Westdale Press has reversed its high-profile order for a KBA Rapida 106, announced at last year's Drupa, and returned instead to incumbent supplier Heidelberg for two new 10-colour B1 perfectors.