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London retailers host live t-shirt printing
Live t-shirt design and printing has been rolled out at Liberty London and Topman Oxford Circus, in collaboration with interactive print specialist Yr Store.

Vivid expands with new USA dealers
Vivid Laminating Technologies aims to grow its international sales reach after appointing its first resellers in the USA.

Domino aiming to triple inkjet label press installs
Domino is looking forward to a better year in 2014 after closing the book on its failed investment in egg coding venture Ten Media.

Alfaplas invests £2m in Flexotecnica
Herefordshire-based flexible packaging printer Alfaplas has installed a new eight-colour Flexotecnica EVO XG press.

Cubiquity makes number 95 in the Sunday Times Fast Track 100
Print management firm Cubiquity Media has edged in to the Sunday Times Virgin Fast Track 100 list of Britain’s top 100 private firms with the fastest growing sales over the past three years.

The Website Leeds adds Bradford expertise
The Website Leeds is gearing up for growth and has strengthened its team with four new employees joining from the former St Ives Direct Bradford business.

Trinity Mirror axes Liverpool Post
Newspaper publisher Trinity Mirror has announced that the 19 December edition of its weekly business newspaper The Liverpool Post, launched in 1855, will be its last.

CWU and Royal Mail agree landmark deal
The Communication Workers Union has backed what it and Royal Mail have termed a groundbreaking new agreement in their long-running dispute over pay and contractual terms.

HMRC relaxes RTI deadline for micro-businesses by two years
The deadline by when all UK micro-businesses must report their PAYE records in Real Time Information (RTI) has been extended to April 2016.

Print.uk.com wins five-year Navtech contract
Print.uk.com has secured a five-year contract with Ontario, Canada-based aeronautics business Navtech to print and supply flight documentation for its airline customers across a number of UK airports.

Overmatter: Noddy's Nuggets
Christmas is less than three weeks away, which can mean only one thing. Yes, Slade’s Merry Xmas Everybody on repeat at your local shopping centre.

M Partners Wide adds Canon kit to product portfolio
M Partners Wide, the wide-format division of printing kit supplier M Partners, has extended its product offering after agreeing a reseller deal with Canon.

DS Smith profits surge
DS Smith posted a 52% jump in pre-tax profit and a 25% increase in revenue in its half-year results.

Planned investment in digital wide format highest since 2007
Digital technology is becoming ever more important to wide-format printers, a new survey has found.

Appleton Signs invests in Linoprint C751 digital press
Southampton-based Appleton Signs has taken delivery of a Linoprint C751 to meet increasing demand for short-run retail POS work.