The Ultra digital press costs from £320,000 and can produce 1,250 B2+ size sheets an hour. It can handle stock from 135 to 675gsm on thicknesses up to 700 microns. The manufacturer claims its incorporated patent-pending RSP technology delivers pin-point accuracy, while its Variable Density and 99GU applications allows for variable polymer thickness and “the highest level of gloss attainable” for print. “It has taken a while for the print market to speed up to the fact that print is no longer merely a 2D medium but has become something that’s raised and textured,” said Mark Nixon, managing director for sole UK and Ireland distributor Conversion UK. “This is twice the speed of our other B2 machine, the S75, and it employs twin-tray technology that loads twice as fast. At 1,250 sheets per hour, the Scodix Ultra can produce 10,000 B2 sheets, 40,000 photo-book covers, 80,000 greeting cards, or 480,000 business cards during every eight-hour shift,” he said. The device is targeted at commercial printers, folding-carton packaging converters, web-to-print shops and trade finishers servicing the luxury stationery, photobook, greetings cards and packaging markets....

Hemmings was the subject of a police investigation in 2010 and 2011, as a result of which he was charged with fraud, including obtaining money by deception and false representation, in April 2011. The investigation centred on false invoices that Hemmings had fraudulently created from Ken Biggs Construction in April 2005 and March 2006. Hemmings, a director of Wiltshire-based academic book printer Cromwell Press from 1991 until it fell into administration for the second time in September 2010, initially denied the charges. But in July this year he entered a guilty plea, admitting that he had falsified two invoices amounting to £81,983. Sentencing had been scheduled for 30 August but was delayed to 19 September....

“The South Americans are shifting away from the direct print model and embracing print management and other models,” said chief marketing officer Tony Massey. “Our expansion also has something to do with buoyant regional economies and the ‘bric effect’,” he said of surging markets in Brazil, Russia, India and China. He said the company aimed to double the number of staff in Brazil to around 30 within a year to deal with a client spend in the Americas of £100m and growing rapidly. Clients include giants such as Google and pharmaceutical multinational Bayer, all hungry for large volumes of print for material such as POS and creative services, Massey said. Americas president Mike Perez said: “Increasing our operations in Brazil is a result of tremendous business growth over the past 18 months, which has made this expansion necessary. “We will continue to deliver outstanding global services to South America. The services HH Global are renowned for around the world.” HH Global offers print and media asset management, creative production, artwork management, marketing procurement, production management and marketing fulfilment to an increasingly global market. In July this year, the company won a three-year contract to provide electronics giant Siemens with global end-to-end print services....

Hemmings was the subject of a police investigation in 2010 and 2011, as a result of which he was charged with fraud, including obtaining money by deception and false representation, in April 2011. The investigation centred on false invoices that Hemmings had fraudulently created from Ken Biggs Construction in April 2005 and March 2006. Hemmings, a director of Wiltshire-based academic book printer Cromwell Press from 1991 until it fell into administration for the second time in September 2010, initially denied the charges. But in July this year he entered a guilty plea, admitting that he had falsified two invoices amounting to £81,983. Sentencing had been scheduled for 30 August but was delayed to 19 September....

The Ultra digital press costs from £320,000 and can produce 1,250 B2+ size sheets an hour. It can handle stock from 135 to 675gsm on thicknesses up to 700 microns. The manufacturer claims its incorporated patent-pending RSP technology delivers pin-point accuracy, while its Variable Density and 99GU applications allows for variable polymer thickness and “the highest level of gloss attainable” for print. “It has taken a while for the print market to speed up to the fact that print is no longer merely a 2D medium but has become something that’s raised and textured,” said Mark Nixon, managing director for sole UK and Ireland distributor Conversion UK. “This is twice the speed of our other B2 machine, the S75, and it employs twin-tray technology that loads twice as fast. At 1,250 sheets per hour, the Scodix Ultra can produce 10,000 B2 sheets, 40,000 photo-book covers, 80,000 greeting cards, or 480,000 business cards during every eight-hour shift,” he said. The device is targeted at commercial printers, folding-carton packaging converters, web-to-print shops and trade finishers servicing the luxury stationery, photobook, greetings cards and packaging markets....