Search

KBA has announced a 2.5% price increase for its sheetfed offset presses, effective from 15 April 2013. The price rise, a response to rising input costs, is intended to help [...]

Langley Holdings has claimed that while others may struggle to turn a profit on sheetfed press sales at current pricing, it believes that Manroland Sheetfed is now structured to do [...]

As technology continues to improve, litho presses are currently getting much better at short-run, on-demand work. But platesetters must keep apace, too, if those gains are really going to be [...]

Fujifilm has taken the first European orders for its B2 inkjet Jet Press 720 from two companies in Austria and France. The orders take the total number of Jet Press [...]

Trade and commercial printer RCS has secured a world-first with the installation of Screen's B2 sheetfed inkjet press, the Truepress Jet SX. The pounds 1.2m press was installed two weeks [...]

KBA has made 'significant progress' in improving print quality on its RotaJet 76 and has added newspaper printing to the potential applications for the inkjet web press. The firm reported [...]

Typography charity the St Bride Foundation is hosting its third one-day conference, exploring the modern applications of letterpress, on 9 November. 'Letterpress: something to say' is to be held at [...]

- UK first for RCS with Presstek 75DI RCS has invested in a Presstek 75DI direct imaging press with inline aqueous coater, the first B2 75DI to be installed in [...]

The Whittington Press will be showcasing its historic letterpress machines to coincide with the annual Whittington Summer Show in Cheltenham on 1 September. Visitors will be invited to print their [...]

The expansion is set to include a new, state-of-the-art printing press and aims to add 50% to the factory's production capacity. DS Smith Packaging Belper managing director Graham Tattam said: [...]

IVC buys Heidelberg Linoprint C751 press Image Visual Communications (IVC) is to replace a Kodak M700 printer with a Heidelberg Linoprint C751 digital press later this month Managing director Colin [...]

2: HP - Number of UK beta sites for the Indigo 10000 B2 digital press - Precision Printing and now Pureprint Group, page 12 53.7: Xaar - Width (in mm) [...]

Narrow web printing press manufacturer Mark Andy is aiming to maintain its strong UK sales momentum after re-equipping and updating its Cheshire showroom. Opened to visitors at the end of [...]

1. Mixed picture at St Ives as print margins are squeezed: 2,335 St Ives has warned of 'further deterioration' in trading conditions across its print operations while praising its marketing [...]

Goss International has declared Drupa a success after taking orders for 11 web presses at the show, although none of those were from UK printers. One of the highlights of [...]

Italian flexo press manufacturer Gidue will officially launch its MX entry-level label printing press next month. The MX, which was previewed at an open house at the company's factory in [...]

Taiwanese manufacturer KYMC used Drupa to launch Moduflex, an inline flexo press, after trialling the new machine last year with multinational food packaging company Tetra Pak. KYMC described the Moduflex [...]

Chesapeake has continued its investment programme in its pharmaceutical and healthcare packaging division after signing for a six-colour Komori Lithrone GX 40. The press, which is a full carton specification [...]

Swiss inkjet developer Graph-Tech is moving into direct sales, with its first own-brand device and a non-click-based sales model. The company, which has worked behind the scenes on inkjet engineering [...]

1. Buxton switches to Heidelberg for fresh press spend: 2,424 clicks Buxton Press has kicked off the next phase of its reinvestment plan by sealing a pounds 7m deal for [...]

Spanish flexo press manufacturer Comexi has developed a new machine configuration for flexible packaging printing, which it launched at Drupa. The Comexi C18 press combines offset and flexo technology and [...]

Lexon Group has placed one of the first UK orders for a B2 Landa Nanographic printing press, following a flying visit to Dusseldorf last Thursday (3 May). Chief executive Malcolm [...]

Magazine printer Stephens & George is to become the first company in the world to install the Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 106 perfector since it went into serial production. The company's [...]

Britain's oldest reel-fed newspaper printing press is to be restored to full working condition, 105 years after it was first built. The Cossar printing press is believed to be the [...]

Newspaper and magazine finishing specialist Muller Martini is launching a host of debuts at Drupa. Machines on display include the VSOP web offset printing press, aimed at the packaging market, [...]

Manufacturer Impika is to demonstrate a new four-colour continuous feed inkjet printer at Drupa 2012 (Hall 5, Stand C24). The iPrint Compact press, which will be given its world premiere [...]

Commercial printer Jadan Press has installed a Ricoh C751 digital press as a replacement for an older machine. The pounds 1.5m-turnover company, which has 18 staff, wanted a new press [...]

EFI will unveil a new digital press that it believes can replace wide-format screen printing at Drupa (Hall 05, stand C1). Announcing the Orion, chief executive Guy Gecht stated: 'We're [...]

Commercial and trade printer Blackhammer has confirmed its investment in a six-colour KBA Rapida 105 press. The investment in the press, which is due to be installed in May, came [...]

Press manufacturers Miyakoshi and Ryobi have joined forces to develop an 8,000sph B2 digital press, which will be shown as a prototype at Drupa 2012 (Hall 9, stand A4). The [...]

John Price Printers has installed a Komori 10-colour Lithrone S1029 Perfector to boost capacity and replace an older press. The new press has taken the place of a six-year-old five-colour [...]

After years in the wilderness, letterpress has secured a place in the 21st century by appealing to a public bored by overly polished, mass-market print. If Johannes Gutenberg had possessed [...]

Komori is hoping to establish a foothold in the digital print production market after signing a global sales agreement with digital manufacturer Konica Minolta. The partnership, which will enable Komori [...]

Press manufacturer KBA's high-volume inkjet web press is due to be unveiled at Drupa in May, aimed at the book, magazine and commercial print sectors, according to reports in the [...]

- PrintWorks North acquires Ryobi 525GE Wetherby-based PrintWorks North has added a five-colour Ryobi 525GE press to handle increased demand for full colour work. The B3 press includes a sealing [...]

Jo Francis, contributing editor of PrintWeek, tracks down the solutions to your technical troubles. We have a waterless litho printing press and I'm looking for a glue that acts like [...]

KBA has said it is on track to unveil its new digital web press at Drupa 2012 next May. UK managing director Christian Knapp explained that details of the press [...]

Bluepoint Cambridge has installed a new B2 Komori Lithrone S529 press with coater as part of a pounds 1m investment programme. The pounds 6m-turnover group has also installed a Xerox [...]

Screen has launched the third model in its flexo and letterpress range, the PlateRite FX1200 thermal platesetter, which is aimed at the flexo packaging market. It can image flexo plates [...]

- Marstan invests in two Xerox 8080s In an investment costing more than pounds 200,000, Marstan Press has expanded its digital operations with the addition of the two 8080 DocuColor [...]

pounds 158k: Hans Gronhi - List price of its GH524 four-colour offset press, which can print up to maximum sheet size of 520x370mm, page 14 50k: Tolerans - Copies per [...]

For label printers, a move into digital is not likely to be as straightforward as it seems and rushing in without proper planning won't do you any favours, but do [...]

Manroland GB has promoted long-time employee Adam Robotham to director of sales for its sheetfed division. Robotham has been with the company for 13 years in a variety of roles [...]

Xante has teamed with Memjet to unveil its first wide-format press, the 42in-wide Excelagraphix 4200 colour inkjet printer at Graph Expo in Chicago. The Excelagraphix 4200 is the first 42in [...]

- Excel boosts capacity with Ryobi press Excel Design & Print has increased its capacity by 25% and cut makeready times after investing in a four-colour Ryobi 524GX offset litho [...]

Heidelberg has acquired German digital press manufacturer CSAT as part of plans to expand its offering in the packaging sector. Heidelberg said the acquisition would grow its digital print portfolio [...]

A project to develop printed electronics in the UK has opened a tender for a printing press, in a deal which could reach pounds 1.5m. The Centre for Process Innovation [...]

Weedon PSC has invested pounds 175,000 in a second TCY three-colour offline flexo press in order to maintain the 'highest level of quality'. The machine was installed at Weedon's Hednesford, [...]

Real Digital International (RDI) has invested more than pounds 2m to cut turnaround times and give itself a 'competitive advantage' after taking delivery of five Xerox iGen4 EXP digital presses. [...]

- Newnorth buys PlateRite 8900HD Bedford-based Newnorth Print has prioritised green issues after investing in the UK's first Screen B1 PlateRite 8900HD platesetter Screen claims the platesetter has a range [...]