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Middleton targets packaging and large-format growth and sells recycling division
West-Midlands based merchant and convertor Middleton Paper has made a multimillion-pound investment in kit and stock as it focuses its growth plans on the packaging and large-format sector after...

St Ives hails successful acquisitions strategy
Marketing services is now a near-£100m business for St Ives, while like-for-like print sales have nudged up after the group’s exit from commodity print markets.

Roland DG launches Texart RT-640 dye-sublimation printer
Roland DG has launched the Texart RT-640, a 1.6m-wide dye-sublimation transfer printer available in dual CMYK or eight-colour configurations.

UPDATE: HP confirms plan to hive off Personal Systems and Printing businesses into new company
HP has confirmed that it plans to separate into two publicly traded companies by the end of the next financial year (fiscal 2015).

Connect Packaging makes digital foray following sale to CBS
Connect Packaging has installed its first digital press as part of a £750,000 investment backed by its new parent CBS Packaging, which acquired the Essex-based converter in December 2013.

Fespa veterans Michel Caza and Ricardo Delgado retire from board
Fespa co-founder Michel Caza and former president Ricardo Rodriguez Delgado have both announced their retirement from the eight-man board, making way for two new appointments.

Star product: Epson SureColor SC-F7100
Purpose-built textiles machine with the latest technology.

B-Print & Display combats increased demand with HP Scitex FB10000 buy
Retail display specialists B-Print & Display Group has invested in an HP Scitex FB10000 and aims to order a second in the next few weeks.

David Cameron hails Fine Print 'success story'
The prime minister David Cameron hailed the "business success story" that is his local constituency printer Fine Print, on a visit to the West Oxfordshire firm earlier this month.

Harwood King Fine Art in double Canon buy
Fine art screen printer Harwood King Fine Art Studio has invested around £10,000 in Canon iPF 8400 and Canon iPF 815 large-format machines to boost its quality and colour accuracy.