Dryden spearheaded DS Smith’s drawn-out takeover of SCA Packaging, which completed last July, in a deal worth £1.3bn. The acquisition made it one of the leading suppliers of recycled packaging for consumer goods in Europe. Before DS Smith he was finance director at Filtrona, where he had spent nine years in various financial leadership roles. Dryden’s decision to leave DS Smith was announced in January and he has been working a notice period since then. He was not available to comment. Flint Group chief executive Antoine Fady, whom Dryden will report to, said: “Steve joins us with a broad range of experience and great track record in financial management including controlling, treasury, tax and corporate development. “His appointment further strengthens the executive management team and I’m sure he will provide a valuable contribution in the ongoing successful development of Flint Group.” Flint Group makes printing consumables including conventional and energy curable inks and coatings for most offset, flexographic and gravure applications. It claims to be number one or two supplier in every major market segment it serves. The group, which also makes pressroom chemicals, printing blankets and sleeves for offset printing, is headquartered in Luxembourg and employs 6,900 people. Revenues for 2012 were £1.91bn (€2.25bn). Meanwhile DS Smith has announced Dryden’s successor. Adrian Marsh is due to join in late September. He has been Tesco’s group director of tax, treasury and corporate finance for the last three and a half years. Previously he was European CFO at AstraZeneca and CFO for global building products at Pilkington. Marsh said: “I am excited to be joining DS Smith at such an important stage in the company’s history. I have been extremely impressed by the business and the management and look forward to supporting the board in driving the company’s development.” DS Smith chairman Gareth Davis said: “Adrian brings extensive and valuable international experience and skills and I am confident he will make a great contribution as we continue to execute our strategy to become the leader in recycled packaging for consumer goods.” Davis praised Dryden for his hard work and dedication over the last five years. Dryden stands down on 28 June....

Dryden spearheaded DS Smith’s drawn-out takeover of SCA Packaging, which completed last July, in a deal worth £1.3bn. The acquisition made it one of the leading suppliers of recycled packaging for consumer goods in Europe. Before DS Smith he was finance director at Filtrona, where he had spent nine years in various financial leadership roles. Dryden’s decision to leave DS Smith was announced in January and he has been working a notice period since then. He was not available to comment. Flint Group chief executive Antoine Fady, whom Dryden will report to, said: “Steve joins us with a broad range of experience and great track record in financial management including controlling, treasury, tax and corporate development. “His appointment further strengthens the executive management team and I’m sure he will provide a valuable contribution in the ongoing successful development of Flint Group.” Flint Group makes printing consumables including conventional and energy curable inks and coatings for most offset, flexographic and gravure applications. It claims to be number one or two supplier in every major market segment it serves. The group, which also makes pressroom chemicals, printing blankets and sleeves for offset printing, is headquartered in Luxembourg and employs 6,900 people. Revenues for 2012 were £1.91bn (€2.25bn). Meanwhile DS Smith has announced Dryden’s successor. Adrian Marsh is due to join in late September. He has been Tesco’s group director of tax, treasury and corporate finance for the last three and a half years. Previously he was European CFO at AstraZeneca and CFO for global building products at Pilkington. Marsh said: “I am excited to be joining DS Smith at such an important stage in the company’s history. I have been extremely impressed by the business and the management and look forward to supporting the board in driving the company’s development.” DS Smith chairman Gareth Davis said: “Adrian brings extensive and valuable international experience and skills and I am confident he will make a great contribution as we continue to execute our strategy to become the leader in recycled packaging for consumer goods.” Davis praised Dryden for his hard work and dedication over the last five years. Dryden stands down on 28 June....

The new, single pass sheet-fed or roll-fed machine, uses Memjet inkjet technology and is targeted at printers servicing the indoor poster, banner, signage and point-of-purchase display graphics markets. The manufacturer claims that at speeds of 420 sqm/h at 1600dpi, the IJP2000 can print jobs more than 40 times faster than “comparable” wide format systems and is able to maintain quality and output speed without being impacted by substrate type or width. The machine can handle substrates up to 42in (106cm) and 190gsm. Nine-metre banners can be produced in one minute, according to Xerox. The printer, which is driven by Caldera’s Grand RIP Plus, is suitable for a range of substrates such as textile, vinyl, backlit and stoplight films as well as standard and coated papers and uses aqueous inkjet, dye-based inks in CMYK. It comprises five stationary print heads that the manufacturer said utilise “breakthrough” technology enabling printers to achieve results that “have been previously unattainable in the market”. Vice president of Inkjet Business at Xerox, Dustin Graupmann said: “We anticipate this being a breakthrough product, which is going to redefine the speed quality combination in the market. Graupmann said that the new machine had been designed to meet changing needs in the industry such as shorter turnaround times as well as personalisation and versioning. “We think these are all strengths of Xerox and that the IJP will meet some of those demands in the market,” he added. Graupmann said that printers would only need to run the machine for 45 minutes a day or for 2,000 to 5,000sq metres a month to achieve “a good return”. “This machine has the potential to have plenty of available capacity for printers to continue to grow their businesses and also gives them the unique opportunity to retire multiple older devices,” he added. The list price for the IJP2000 is available on request and will be commercially available from...

The new, single pass sheet-fed or roll-fed machine, uses Memjet inkjet technology and is targeted at printers servicing the indoor poster, banner, signage and point-of-purchase display graphics markets. The manufacturer claims that at speeds of 420 sqm/h at 1600dpi, the IJP2000 can print jobs more than 40 times faster than “comparable” wide format systems and is able to maintain quality and output speed without being impacted by substrate type or width. The machine can handle substrates up to 42in (106cm) and 190gsm. Nine-metre banners can be produced in one minute, according to Xerox. The printer, which is driven by Caldera’s Grand RIP Plus, is suitable for a range of substrates such as textile, vinyl, backlit and stoplight films as well as standard and coated papers and uses aqueous inkjet, dye-based inks in CMYK. It comprises five stationary print heads that the manufacturer said utilise “breakthrough” technology enabling printers to achieve results that “have been previously unattainable in the market”. Vice president of Inkjet Business at Xerox, Dustin Graupmann said: “We anticipate this being a breakthrough product, which is going to redefine the speed quality combination in the market. Graupmann said that the new machine had been designed to meet changing needs in the industry such as shorter turnaround times as well as personalisation and versioning. “We think these are all strengths of Xerox and that the IJP will meet some of those demands in the market,” he added. Graupmann said that printers would only need to run the machine for 45 minutes a day or for 2,000 to 5,000sq metres a month to achieve “a good return”. “This machine has the potential to have plenty of available capacity for printers to continue to grow their businesses and also gives them the unique opportunity to retire multiple older devices,” he added. The list price for the IJP2000 is available on request and will be commercially available from...

The printer in Mitcham, Surrey, has achieved the Heidelberg ISO 12647-2 certification to prove it can consistently match colour throughout a run and from job to job. Managing director Danny Sullivan said: “We are heavily concentrated on brand quality and consistency with blue-chip clients and will flag up this award to customers in a brochure with case studies. “We hope this certification could push us more towards print management companies and design agencies because there is a failure within the industry of colour consistency.” Positive Images, only the 17th company to win the Heidelberg certificate, works for household names in sectors such as health and retail. Printed material includes brochures, leaflets and stationery. The four-day process saw Heidelberg taskmasters check prepress, calibration and printing. Sheets were sent for scrutiny to Germany, and test sheets must be sent every six months. Certification renewal is every two years. Sullivan installed a £1m Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 75-5+L two years ago and also runs a six-colour Speedmaster 74 and a raft of digital kit. The newest investment included Axis Control spectral measurement which Sullivan said “eats up all the work but is still not at capacity”. “We bought the XL because we had already invested heavily in IT at the front end and in post-press but not in the pressroom because of the level of expenditure required. But push came to shove and we had to invest.” The extra capacity has changed Positive Images’ average runs from between 5,000 and 25,000 to much longer runs for brochures, Sullivan said. Brother and production director Mike Sullivan said an added bonus of the XL was sustainability. The kit runs with virtually no alcohol and very few start up sheets. Heidelberg colour specialist Steve Fowler said: “Colour quality sells. Print management companies were the first to demand provable colour standards but this has become a requirement for a growing number of tenders. “Print colour management focuses the mind on production processes and so has the side benefit of reducing variables and with that, cutting waste as well as minimising the risk of disputed or rejected jobs. “Printers can even supply their customers with documentation to prove that the colour quality was produced to the tightest parameters,” he...