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The new normal? What will the 'new normal' be as we enter 2010? KBA estimates the global market for printing presses (newspaper presses, commercial web, sheetfed, flexo and gravure, but [...]

Heidelberg said last week that it was shaking up its board and structure. Hardly surprising in its current predicament, but what was surprising (and buried in the final paragraph of [...]

Illustrated Stationery has invested in a flatbed UV press to add wide-format printing to its services. Managing director Paolo Scaglioni said the Welsh wedding stationery specialists bought the Fujifilm Sericol [...]

Printing Plus has opted for a Presstek 34DI direct imaging offset press to improve its competitiveness when producing four-colour work. The company, which has sites in Kendal and Lancaster, is [...]

The Standard Press has bought its first new printing press - a five-colour Heidelberg Speedmaster SM 52-5. The machine, which will replace a four-colour Speedmaster SM 52-4, will help the [...]

Baker Self Adhesive Labels is aiming to add new clients in the flexo print market after investing in the UK's first HP Indigo WS6000 digital press. Steve Baker, managing director [...]

Press manufacturer KBA has signed a strategic alliance that will lead to it selling Indian presses in the UK. The German company has teamed up with Indian press manufacturer The [...]

HP Indigo is the latest digital press vendor to have its machines certified as Validation Printing systems by Fogra. The HP Indigo 5500 and 7000 machines were certified last month [...]

Circle Services has bridged the gap between its litho and digital printing set-up after investing in a Presstek 52DI B3 landscape press. The Southend-based B1 and B2 printer has installed [...]

World Color Press, formerly Quebecor World, has released its first results since exiting Chapter 11 creditor protection in the US last month. It reported second-quarter revenues of dollars 702.5m (pounds [...]

Grayam Press has bolstered its digital firepower with an investment in a Truepress 344 direct imaging offset press. The Truepress, from Screen, has increased the Billericay, Essex-based printer's capacity to [...]

Gosport Borough Council's reprographics department has cut nearly pounds 50,000 from annual print outsourcing costs after investing in a Presstek 34 DI press. The recent four-colour install, specified with online [...]

Rutters UK has printed a 280m2 carpet for the premiere of Sacha Baron Cohen's film Bruno. The carpet, which featured a fashion house-style logo for the character in white on [...]

Zenith Print & Packaging has installed its maiden UV press after opting for a five-colour Heidelberg Speedmaster CD 102. The new machine, configured CD 102-5+L UV, has doubled the capacity [...]

Jade Press is aiming to drive growth in its variable data offering while complementing its litho set-up after investing in its first digital press, an HP Indigo 3500. The Leeds [...]

Spenaprint has set its sights on developing its product offering and growing the business's client base after investing in a brace of HP digital wide-format presses. The Tyne & Wear [...]

Oce has expanded the colour capabilities of its ColorStream portfolio of web-fed production printers by adding a fifth colour station. The extra unit, which was launched at the Hunkeler Innovation [...]

Created in a garage, this litho & digital print firm continues to grow stronger. Despite a move to digital, Longridge boss Neil Long tells Tim Sheahan he is keen to [...]

Yorkshire printer Fulprint has broken into the four-colour arena after investing in a Ryobi 524HE to make the company more competitive. The B3 press spend is a response to growing [...]

The Digital Press is hoping to open up new markets for heavy stock short-run work after investing in a Xeikon 5000 digital colour press, complete with Xeikon's Web Finishing Module. [...]

Print & Design North East (PDNE) has moved into the B2 sector with a used Komori press from Roberts Graphics. The Newcastle-based company has purchased a five colour Komori Lithrone [...]

Ashford Colour Press has broken into the large-format marketplace after taking delivery of a KBA Rapida 142 B0 perfecting press. The investment, which is part of a pounds 2m spend [...]

With the Inkjet Web Press, HP is leading the next generation of digital printing. One of the highlights of this year's Drupa was the arrival of inkjet presses in continuous [...]

SDC Reprographic Systems is looking to grow its e-commerce operation after updating its large-format offering with a KIP 9000 digital colour press. The investment by the Sutton-based business follows the [...]

Burlington Press has 'broadened its offering' and secured a raft of new contracts after investing in its second KBA Rapida 105 within two years. The Cambridgeshire-based commercial printer has opted [...]

Krause will unveil its new X-Jet platesetter, exclusively designed for use with the KBA Cortina waterless offset newspaper press, at this month's Ifra Expo. Krause's X-Jet platesetter, which has been [...]

Newtech SRL has unveiled its debut digital machine, the four-colour KeraMagic, designed for printing directly onto ceramic tiles. The inkjet printer is to be launched in Italy on 30 September [...]

Screen has expanded its range of flexo platesetters with the addition of the new PlateRite FX1524. The 1,076x1,524mm-format unit can output flexo and letterpress digital plates, as well as thermal [...]

HP's new Graphics Solutions Business (GSB) is evidence that graphic arts continues to be a 'pillar of growth' for the company, according to Robert Stabler, UK and Ireland country manager [...]

High-end printer D2 has said Heidelberg's Speedmaster XL 75 'wipes out the potential for digital' with its faster makereadies and quality. The West Molesey-based company bought the 'clean, lean and [...]

Heidelberg has handed a major endorsement to Total Print! Expo, becoming the first litho press manufacturer to confirm its attendance at the show formerly known as Digital Print World. The [...]

Mitsubishi Lithographic Presses UK has achieved ISO 14001 accreditation, following the implementation of its Environmental Management System. The B1 and B2 press manufacturer installed recycling facilities for paper, wood, board, [...]

Cost-efficiency, not quality, will be the deciding factor in digital-offset battle. Now all the pre-Drupa events and announcements have taken place, I want to assess what the new digital products [...]

Presstek will launch a UV option for its 52DI and 34DI direct imaging offset presses at this year's Drupa. The kit manufacturer, which has worked with ink supplier Toyo Ink [...]

Leach's the Printers is moving to new premises next month as it prepares to install its first four-colour press, a Komori Lithrone S429. The Abingdon-based company is 107 years old [...]

Century Studios has said it has made inroads into long-run personalisation and significantly cut makeready times following the purchase of a Presstek 34DI direct imaging offset press. The digital printer [...]

Komori is to showcase its web portfolio at Drupa next month with a focus on increased productivity and higher quality print. The Japanese giant will bring a System 38S 16pp [...]

We ask if the M-600 web/sheeter combo can really challenge the 10- and 12-colour B1 market. PRINT GROUP John Charnock, technical director, St Ives 'It appears to have all the [...]

KBA has teamed up with Dutch software firm Hiflex to promote web-to-print and direct imaging (DI) presses at this year's Drupa. The pair have formed KBA Complete, a new organisation [...]

Agfa Graphics has entered into a strategic alliance with Canon Europe to fully integrate Canon's entire Imagepress range with Agfa's new Apogee Suite JDF workflow. The partnership aims to provide [...]

A desire for flexibility and heatset capability coupled with technological improvements has boosted web-offset, discovers Nosmot Gbadamosi. Size matters, especially in the web-offset market, where aggressive competition and overcapacity is [...]

Redmond Graphics has bought a five-colour Komori Lithrone S40 plus coater to replace two Heidelberg SM-74s as part of a pounds 2m investment in printing, repro and finishing equipment. Maurice [...]

Ritchie (UK), part of the Clondalkin Group, has taken delivery of the first Muller Martini Alprinta 74 web press to be sold to the UK market, as part of a [...]

This year's Drupa could signal the 'demise of conventional presses' with digital technology set to make giant strides forward, according to one senior industry figure. Brian Filler, Screen UK managing [...]

MAN Roland has installed its first 80pp web press. The Lithoman press has a web width of 2.25 metres and has started up successfully at a J Fink printing company [...]

Hine Labels has bought its first digital printing system to meet the demand for shorter-run, variable label design. The company has installed a Xeikon 330 label press to run reel-to-reel [...]

Xerox is set to make inroads into the potentially lucrative transpromo sector after launching its first full-colour, continuous digital press. The Xerox 490/980 Colour Continuous Feed Printing System becomes the [...]

Digital print specialist 1st Byte is setting its sights on expansion after snapping up digital firm Raging Thunder and clinching a contract with Card Aid. The acquisition of Raging Thunder, [...]

PhotoBox has installed an HP Indigo 5500 digital press to boost productivity and reduce turnaround times. The London firm supplies photobooks in the UK and is part of French-based Photoways [...]

Prinovis Liverpool has reached a key milestone after installing its fourth and final KBA gravure press, a third 4.32m-wide machine, which will go into full production later this month. Managing [...]