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With Aylesford Newsprints board giving the go-ahead to investigate the possibility of a new paper machine, it seems UK newsprint production could be on the up.

UK printing was well represented in The Queens Awards for Enterprise this year, with Taylor Bloxham, Seacourt, De La Rue Currency and BMP Europe all picking up awards.

A Chinese print company has opened a factory aimed at attracting international print buyers that will eventually employ as many as 20,000 workers.

London College of Communication (LCC) is aiming to put itself at the forefront of digital print education as it looks into how the process helps both printers and publishers.

Printers concern over the quality of lightweight papers is unfounded, the papermaking division of the French group Bollor has claimed.

Specialist paper supplier P3/Salehurst has launched its re-designed website, which now provides its clients with online access to a complementary paper management service.

Mondi, the paper and packaging group, is set to become a publicly-quoted business.

PaperCo is offering a passport for Airmiles for printers who specify the Pioneer pre-print brand for bespoke stationery work.

PricewaterhouseCoopers Branching Out, its first annual analysis of deals in the global forest, paper and packaging industry, has said that 2006 has been a solid rather than vintage year.

The germ of the on-demand book publishing concept was first bandied around the world's major print exhibitions in the early 1990s - that was when Xerox's DocuTech began to punch above its weight as...

In the UK, book printing is a troubled sector. One by one, the UK's premier book printers have seen their work drain away to China, India and the Middle East where labour is cheaper and quality is...

Despite a trend towards uncoated, matt and silk papers are still sought after for their opacity, smoothness and printability.

Much of print has been getting supersized or going digital in recent years. So it was a refreshing change to see last week that MT Print in Darlington had kept its faith in the humble B3 sheetfed...

The UKs newsprint capacity could be set for a huge increase with a new machine potentially being built in Kent.

Bezier, the in-store marketing group, has dropped plans to acquire a large-format litho printer after deciding to invest 3m in its own wide-format KBA press.