Wide format

Gardners in £1m-plus spend

Wide-format printer Gardners has invested heavily in new equipment, purchasing three EFI printers, finishing kit and also becoming the official licence holder for all Agripa Fleet Graphics products.

Signbox completes mass London fire station sign install

Architectural signage specialist Signbox has completed a 12-month install of signs both internally and externally on nine fire stations around London.

Bex Design & Print first in UK for Jetrix LED

Screen and digital printer Bex Design & Print has installed the UK's first InkTec Jetrix LX5 LED-UV printer.

Colour Monster in prepress upgrade

Guernsey-based commercial printer Colour Monster has purchased a new Suprasetter A75 platesetter from Heidelberg.

Wallpaper Ink quadruples capacity with Roland buy

Bespoke W2P wallpaper printer Wallpaper Ink has bought three new 1.6m-Roland VersaExpress RF-640 wide-format printers.

Weatherbys print arm streamlines production with Papermule

The printing division of equine and financial services group Weatherbys has invested in a new production workflow system and installed a wide-format printer.

Rapidity takes on Tapestry print wing

Rapidity has bought the print arm of London-based media production agency Tapestry to move into the high-end photographic display market.

Me & My: EFI Vutek GS3250LX Pro

Artworks Solutions’ broad, multi-discipline repertoire defies pithy description and requires an excellent all-rounder. This is it.

Ditto 4 Design diversifies with drone

Ditto 4 Design in Hull believes it has become the first UK print company to obtain a Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) approved license to operate a drone.

KSP eyes significant growth and new flatbed

Large-format and finishing specialist KSP Group is on course to add 50% to its turnover and round off a host of recent investments with a new flatbed wide-format press.

Wilmot-Budgen secures UK cutting first

Point-of-sale specialist Wilmot-Budgen has ordered a Zünd D3 digital cutting table for its Surrey base.

Salisbury upgrades Horizon bookletmaker on 40th anniversary

Salisbury Printing has invested in a Horizon SPF-FC/200L bookletmaker, its third Horizon purchase in the past 15 years.