- Heidelberg has had to revise its medium-term sales target after publishing year-on-year drops in turnover, incoming orders and order backlog in its third quarter results yesterday (8 February).
- Unite has slammed the decision to award the £16m ($25m) ticket printing contract for the London 2012 Olympics to a US-based firm, Weldon, Williams & Lick of Fort Smith, Arkansas.
- The Telegraph will launch its Heston Blumenthal recipe collection in tomorrow's edition (Saturday 4 February), which includes two 52-page A5 booklets and five six-page A5 cards.
- Xaar has dismissed claims made by the former staff of its Chinese subsidiary that they had not resigned, as per Xaar's public statement last week, but were instead "on strike".
- The future of print-based publishing will be on the agenda at the next meeting of the Digital Ad Lab (DAL), which will take place during the Digital London exhibition at Excel next month.
- KBA has introduced free delivery as standard for all spare parts "to help ease pressure on outgoings".
- Manroland's administrator has confirmed that the break-up of the German manufacturer will begin on Wednesday (1 February) with the sale of the Augsburg web offset facility.
- Lucid Dream Software is beta testing ArtAffirm, a new cloud-based PDF editor, pre-flight and layout tool that will allow printers' clients to pre-flight and correct their own artwork before submitting the print-ready files.
- EFI has hailed its APPS and inkjet divisions for their "record" performance in its 2011 results and launched a US-wide recruitment drive for print consultants to join its professional services team.
- Bertelsmann has announced plans to spin off its gravure and international print businesses, including Prinovis, into a separate €1.2bn (£1bn) print division.
- Dynagram, developer of the DynaStrip and InpO2 imposition software, has capitalised on Kodak's Chapter 11 filing by announcing a 50% discount for users switching from Kodak Preps, which it has claimed is under-supported.
- The Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead (RBWM) has bought a Xerox iGen3 press as part of a major investment in digital print and finishing equipment that is intended to cut its £500,000 annual print spend.
- Lüscher has partnered with MacDermid to launch Accent, a new flexo coating plate for packaging and commercial print applications that can be imaged like a normal litho plate on Lüscher's XPose! UV platesetter.
- Eastman Kodak and its US subsidiaries have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after the digital imaging and pre-press giant ran out of money to finance its stuttering transformation.
- DS Smith has launched a £1.4bn reverse takeover bid for SCA's packaging division, in a deal that would make it the largest corrugated and second largest packaging business in Europe with a turnover of around £4bn.
- Muller Martini has said it will unveil new digital finishing products at Drupa 2012, where it will be exhibiting under the motto "one world - one drupa" from its booth (C21) in hall 14.
- Negotiations for the sale of Manroland have entered the final stages, with a shortlist of two different bid proposals due to be presented to creditors on Wednesday (18 January).
- European gravure print group CirclePrinters has appointed Maarten Coerman to its group management board as chief operating officer.
- Innovative Output Solutions (IOS) has continued the process of consolidating its transactional, direct mail and print production facilities with the proposed closure of the Manchester print site of the former K2 Group.
- GMC Software Technology has joined the partner programme for Screen's open platform PDF-based workflow Equiosnet, meaning users can will benefit from verified connectivity between the two firms' products.
