- The situation at book and journal printer MPG Printgroup remains unresolved.
- The trading status of book and journal printer MPG Printgroup is unclear.
- DXG Media has topped a £1m investment programme by winning two regional business awards.
- A new trade only web-to-print service aims to become a printer's "secret weapon" for outsourcing.
- Konica Minolta showed samples of the latest output from its KM-1 B2 inkjet press at this week's North Print & Pack, and has confirmed the press will be on show at Ipex 2014.
- Wyndeham Group has renewed its contract to print The Economist for a further three years.
- Coca-Cola is behind the biggest-ever use of HP Indigo kit for a 'personalised' promotion, involving a massive print run of 800m labels.
- Konica Minolta has formed a strategic partnership with Vpress for web-to-print solutions.
- Victory Signs has become the first UK user of Mimaki's JFX500-2131 LED UV grand-format flatbed printer.
- It was yet another weighty document relating to Kodak's Chapter 11 process, but among the hundreds of filings, this was the most significant to date.
- It began life as a catalogue, survived the dotcom boom - and bust - and went on to become the world's biggest web-to-print business. Jo Francis talks to Vistaprint founder and chief executive Robert Keane about 'productising' print, his dream piece of kit and how Vistaprint's best customers are a traditional printer's worst nightmare.
- Bob Jenkins suddenly realised his head felt hot. Unusually hot. "It was not," he says "the sort of feeling you get with a normal headache. It was like imagining a saucepan full of simmering water, with a broken egg in it. The egg was my brain."
- Heidelberg has more than halved its losses, and has made a big improvement to profitability at an operating level.
- Kodak is banking on its Stream inkjet and SquareSpot imaging technologies to create profitable revenue streams after the company emerges from Chapter 11.
- Falkland Press is moving into B2 digital as part of a major expansion of its facilities that has also involved the company developing its own foil board.
- Walstead Investments has posted maiden profits, with chairman Mark Scanlon hailing "excellent progress" in 2012 following extensive restructuring at the business.
- One of the last major print production roles in UK magazine publishing is no more.
- Swiss CTP system manufacturer Luscher has gone bankrupt.
- In a surprise move Agfa has reorganised the management at its UK and Ireland business.
- Chris King, group production director at Haymarket Media UK, has died.
