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Dscoop EMEA could treble in size after it decided to make membership free, its new chairman has said.

Patrick Howitt, the former owner and chairman of the Nottinghamshire printing company that bore his name, has died aged 71.

Packaging manufacturer Glossop Cartons has almost doubled the size of its business by acquiring Stockport-based Contact Print and Packaging for an undisclosed sum.

George Osborne plans to raise £3bn per year from the Apprenticeship Levy and has fixed the level at 0.5% of an employer's pay bill.

De La Rue is to implement a major restructure of its print manufacturing footprint in a bid to save £13m a year and reduce excess capacity.

Operating profits at Tangent’s print business have crashed by 95% from £1m to just £50,000.

Trinity Mirror plans to close its Newcastle printing plant putting 49 jobs under threat.

Heat-reactive ink, which reveals hidden images when warmed, has been used to enhance the front cover of the latest issue of Future Publishing’s graphic design magazine Computer Arts.

Is this the ultimate manifestation of the modern-day letterpress trend? Seattle start-up The Slate Press is attempting to raise $75,000 (£49,000) to produce what is described as a “high-performance...

Edwardthompson has invested more than £400,000 in a raft of new machinery and equipment upgrades to increase its short-run promotional games production by around 50%.

Noted in Style, a Kent-based manufacturer and supplier of customised and branded products, has taken on a new production apprentice as it continues to grow.

This year’s PrintWeek Awards Company of the Year, Buxton Press, is investing in a second Stahlfolder as it continues its multimillion-pound equipment overhaul.

An independently owned sheetfed printer has gone into administration after more than 100 years in business.

Royal Mail’s revenues from marketing mail grew by 3% in the first half of the year, boosted by an increase in DM spend and in its own data activities.

GF Smith is publishing a 100-page crowd-sourced photobook to provide “an authoritative tool for the print buyer and photographer”.