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Global Graphics names new print sales vice-president
Print software developer Global Graphics has appointed former Xaar European account manager Jeremy Spencer to the newly created role of print sales vice-president.

Pureprint Group to open US operation
Pureprint Group is to open a new client service office in New York, its first outside the UK, and has plans to open a site in Asia within the next 18 months.

Weak pound puts paper prices under pressure
Printers and print buyers should be braced for double-digit paper price rises if the pound fails to strengthen against the euro, with one papermaker describing the current situation as “a...

YPP spends big on fifth anniversary
Large-format specialist Your Print Partner (YPP) has invested £1.5m in new premises and a raft of new kit on its fifth anniversary of trading.

Paramount Labels expands capabilities with Dantex buy
Paramount Labels has invested around £275,000 in a Dantex PicoColour UV inkjet digital label press to win new work and keep more of its existing work in-house.

Vale continues investment with post-press spend
Trade printer Vale Press has topped off a solid year of investment with the purchase of a Stahlfolder BH66.

Cepac reveals £1m investment plans
Corrugated packaging supplier Cepac will be investing around £1m on extending its premises and increasing the size of its digital operation.

Gemini upgrades cross-site workflow
Gemini Print Group has given its workflow and pre-media facilities a major revamp, including adoption of Kodak Sonora processless plates across all of its five operations.

Killer app: FE Burman creates Wallpaper* out of Mosaic
FE Burman has pulled off many an interesting job over the years and worked on multiple occasions with Wallpaper* magazine. For its most creative job yet, and to tie in with Wallpaper’s 20th...

Overmatter: verse and worse
In case you missed it, it was National Poetry Day last week. The event unearthed some rare print talent.

Signarama UK in call for new franchisees
Signarama UK is looking for new franchisees after it ended a six-month strategic development period.

Fire crews still present at Palm Paper premises after blaze
One fire engine and its crew with a watching brief is still present at the premises of a King's Lynn paper factory after a fire broke out that, at its height, was being tackled by 80 firefighters.

BPG co-CEO departs
Bertelsmann Printing Group has scrapped its dual-CEO structure with the departure of one half of the pairing.

Macro Art expands with new London base and Durst first
Wide-format printer Macro Art has opened a new London office to better service its customers after also purchasing the UK’s first eight-colour Durst Rhotex 322.

Streamline upgrades Suprasetter
Commercial printer Streamline Press has invested in a Heidelberg Suprasetter A106 CTP, the latest in a series of kit spends for the company over the past 12 months.