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St Ives has put out its second positive trading update in as many months, resulting in an upturn in the group’s share price.

Reflex Group is in the final stages of a re-equip of its label division that has seen £9m invested in 2017 and is intended to combat rising input costs and standardise production.

The order book for Heidelberg’s Primefire 106 is full for the next two years, as the first beta machine goes into production.

Global affairs magazine and brand Monocle has launched a new newspaper, the Monocle Summer Weekly, with the first of four issues hitting newsstands today (10 August).

KJS Print to Mail Services has become the first UK printer to take the newly launched Xerox Versant 3100.

Cardiff Printing Company (CPC) appears to have closed.

Prestige Printing division Raffle Tickets Direct has invested around £80,000 in a new Polar N92 Plus guillotine to reduce makereadies, along with a secondhand Agfa platesetter.

Drytac has expanded its SpotOn range of self-adhesive materials with the new SpotOn White M50 film.

Johnston Press and Trinity Mirror have reached agreement on new “mutually supportive” multi-year printing contracts.