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Trade printer Abbot Print has taken on a Horizon APC-610 guillotine to enable it to meet demand for fast turnaround business cards.

OK! magazine has become the latest high-profile title to switch from gravure to web offset printing.

Arjowiggins is to cut just over 70 jobs at its Stoneywood Mill in Scotland as the business, which was rescued from administration last year, battles the fallout from Covid-19.

Parcels revenue has overtaken letters for the first time at Royal Mail, which has upped its investment to handle the Christmas ‘peak’ by around £100m this year.

Macfarlane Group has reported better than expected revenue for the second half of the year to date and revealed a change to its board as its longstanding finance director gears up for retirement.

Shares in James Cropper rose dramatically this week on the back of its latest results and hopes for its PaperGard self-sanitising paper and sustainable packaging products.

Duplo International and Ultimate TechnoGraphics have launched a new end-to-end software platform that is said to bring post-press automation into pre-press.

US personalised products retailer Shutterfly has invested in more than 60 new HP Indigo digital presses – the largest single customer order to date for the HP Graphics business.

Xerox will take the wraps off a raft of new production printers at a worldwide online event later today.

Vivid Laminating Technologies has added to its digital die-cutting offering as printers increasingly move to bring previously outsourced services in-house.