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Xerox confident of growth despite 19% fall in profits
Xerox profits for the second quarter dropped 19% from $266m (133.4m) in 2007 to $215m, but remained in line with expectations, the company said.
M-real warns of price increases as full-year figures fail to beat 2007
Paper manufacturer M-real has warned that its full-year 2008 operating profit will be less than 2007 and it will need to impose further product price increases.
Sun Chemical hikes ink prices by up to a fifth
Sun Chemical is raising its publication market prices by between 10 and 20% to reflect global rises in raw material, energy and transportation costs.
Oc CrystalPoint
Oc has claimed CrystalPoint will "change the way wide-format prints are made by combining the best of both toner and inkjet printing" to produce mono and colour waterfast prints for large-format...
Flint Group seals Pensord deal but warns of ink price rises
Flint Group has signed a two-year deal to supply sheetfed magazine printer Pensord but has announced it will be putting up prices for its printing inks by as much as 20%.
Star product: Arctic Volume Collection
Swedish paper manufacturer Arctic Paper has revamped its Arctic Volume collection of high-bulk, matt, fully-coated papers with two new shades, HighWhite and Ivory.
I swear by my: PaperCo 9lives 80
The Love Food Hate Waste full colour brochure is part of a Waste & Resources Action Programme (Wrap) campaign being run by Kent County Council.
Keep control of the colour of money
They say you only appreciate some things when they're gone, and this certainly applies to ink. The ubiquitous pigment makes the difference between a blank sheet of paper and a valued printed product,...
Sun Chemical teams up with IMG Digipack to beta test FastJet press
Ink giant Sun Chemical has partnered up with German company IMG Digipack to beta test its FastJet press, which is said to be the world's fastest inkjet printing machine for corrugated packaging.