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  • Scodix launches web-to-print digital enhancement integration
    Available with immediate effect for “all major existing web-to-print workflows”, Scodix Studio W2P integrates digital enhancement to enable web-to-print businesses operating in both the B2B and B2C sectors ... read more
    Source: PrintWeek Digital News FeedPublished on 2019-07-18
  • Clays completes £12m spend to embrace shorter runs
    The latest machines are in the process of being installed at the book printer’s facility in Bungay, Suffolk, and will be in operation by the end of the month. Alongside the Jet Press, which has initially ... read more
    Source: PrintWeek Digital News FeedPublished on 2019-07-17
  • Diamond ups capabilities with new Versafire EP
    Due to be installed at Dartford, Kent-based Diamond’s 279sqm premises on Monday (15 July), the machine, which features Heidelberg’s Prinect Digital Front End, will replace one of the firm’s two existing ... read more
    Source: PrintWeek Digital News FeedPublished on 2019-07-12
  • DG3 expands with Newnorth deal, Page departs
    DG3 Europe, via DG3 Group (Holdings), has acquired the ongoing business and goodwill of Bedford-based Newnorth, which has to vacate its current site at the end of the year. Newnorth was established ... read more
    Source: PrintWeek Digital News FeedPublished on 2019-07-10
  • Change at the top of Fujifilm’s UK graphics ops
    Chris Broadhurst, who took over as UK general manager at the Japanese manufacturer’s Graphic Systems division two years ago, has been promoted to a European role following the success of the Platesense ... read more
    Source: PrintWeek Digital News FeedPublished on 2019-07-04
  • Baker Labels adds value with new Ricoh
    Installed around three months ago, the additional machine has joined the company’s Print Bureau at its trade label printing factory in Brentwood, Essex, alongside two Ricoh Pro C5100s, Roland DG wide-format ... read more
    Source: PrintWeek Digital News FeedPublished on 2019-07-03
  • Digital set to take 21.2% market share by 2024
    In its new market report, The Future of Digital vs Offset Printing to 2024, Smithers Pira recorded a total market share by value for digital print of 17.4% this year. This has risen from 13.5% in 2014 ... read more
    Source: PrintWeek Digital News FeedPublished on 2019-07-02
  • Digital set to take 21.1% market share by 2024
    In its new market report, The Future of Digital vs Offset Printing to 2024, Smithers Pira recorded a total market share by value for digital print of 17.4% this year. This has risen from 13.5% in 2014 ... read more
    Source: PrintWeek Digital News FeedPublished on 2019-07-02
  • Cresta takes second Dantex PicoColour for soaring demand
    With the first PicoColour installed in March last year, the second press was delivered to Bingham-based Cresta in April this year. Though three manufacturers were scouted out ahead of the original investment, ... read more
    Source: PrintWeek Digital News FeedPublished on 2019-06-24
  • Smith widens colour palette with new SureColor
    Delivered this week, the 10-colour printer will replace one of the firm's three HP Latex machines. The investment brings in white and metallic inks as well as red and orange spot colours that will ... read more
    Source: PrintWeek Digital News FeedPublished on 2019-06-20
  • Diamond Digital boosts capabilities with quadruple Ricoh buy
    Arriving at the Woolwich, east London business in April, the haul comprised a Ricoh Pro C7200 digital production printer, a Ricoh Ri 100 direct-to-garment printer, an Ashgate Kasfold 640 bookletmaker and ... read more
    Source: PrintWeek Digital News FeedPublished on 2019-06-20
  • Coca-Cola boosts in-house print with Anapurna install
    The new purchase joined three Mimaki UCJV 300-160 UV-LED print-and-cut wide-format systems on 27 May at the drinks company's production facility in Milton Keynes. The Anapurna cost £140,000 and will ... read more
    Source: PrintWeek Digital News FeedPublished on 2019-06-19
  • Bluetree unveils summer spending spree
    When it arrives in July, the new Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 106 perfector will boost the group’s litho firepower by around 35% to 68,000sph. “It’s about boosting our capacity and getting the business ... read more
    Source: PrintWeek Digital News FeedPublished on 2019-06-18
  • Gemini buys Foundry Press from administrators
    Ian Vickers and Chris Stevens of FRP Advisory were appointed joint administrators of Horsham, West Sussex-based Foundry on 21 May by the company’s directors. The administrators told PrintWeek the 21-staff ... read more
    Source: PrintWeek Digital News FeedPublished on 2019-06-17
  • Elephant enhances lamination with D&K purchase
    Supplied by finishing equipment vendor Ashgrove Trading, the circa £17,000 device was installed last month and has replaced a manual-feed laminator, which has been part exchanged. The company went ... read more
    Source: PrintWeek Digital News FeedPublished on 2019-06-11
  • Heidelberg launches online platform to share label knowledge
    Developed with the manufacturer’s labels subsidiary Gallus, Label Experts is live now with 10 video walkthroughs for flexo label printing, covering applications from simple to complex. Heidelberg said ... read more
    Source: PrintWeek Digital News FeedPublished on 2019-06-03