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2021 has seen the launch of an exciting new service from BFS. We are now offering customers on all existing routes the chance to try this unique, high quality cotton wipe laundry service, designed solely for printers. It’s the first service dedicated solely to...

Wero Aqua by BFS | A roller that could eliminate your use of IPA IPA (Isopropyl Alcohol) has traditionally been used in the graphics industry to achieve an improved ink/water balance. But the current trend is to eliminate its use altogether for both environmental and...

A Sheetfed Blanket designed to print directly onto fluted boards Have you tried the Conti-Air Prestige for flutes, on your sheetfed press? Printers are reporting repeated success for this extraordinary product, which is converted here at our blanket unit based at...

BFS stays ahead of the game and likes to inform UK printers of new innovations in the market. In this case we can inform you as well as offer some of the  first trials in the UK of this game changing product for wide web. Finito No-Stop is a unique blanket system that...

Are cheaper press rollers worth the risk or a false economy? Cheaper rollers are invariably made of cheaper compounds. This leads to a lowering of the chemical and physical properties which affects the dimensional stability and mechanical wear resistance of the...

BFS supplies an extensive range of specialist pressroom consumables from some of the world’s most eminent manufacturers. A family business established in Berkshire 35 years ago, BFS began by supplying Rollin self-adhesive printing blankets to business forms and...

Natural rubber has been used for thousands of years. Europeans saw it for the first time in the 16th century when Spanish Explorer, Hernan Cortes landed on the East Coast of Mexico 1519. Travelling inland, they discovered the first team-sport recorded in human...

The exceptional MythoEvo has just got better. Designed to satisfy the strictest press requirements delivering exceptional print quality, a longer life and even better performance than its already advanced predecessors.

BFS has been built on the ethos that Better Quality Lasts Longer and Saves You Money, but if you are still using harsh chemicals for your roller maintenance, or running print units dry without lubrication you are likely to find that even the best quality rollers will...

bfs, the UK’s fastest growing print consumable distributor is proud of its status as sole UK manufacturer of Westland press rollers, and being a British manufacturer has never been so important, with Brexit just weeks away. Since January 2009 bfs has been the official...