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Best Cover sold out of administration to previous owners
Coatings specialist Best Cover UV has gone into administration and been sold back to the previous owner.

John Lewis signs for 27 Xerox DocuColors
UK retailer John Lewis has invested in a fleet of 27 Xerox DocuColor 242 digital presses in order to produce in-house point-of-sale material.

John Smith's celebrates Grand National sponsorship with 250sqm hoarding
Brewery John Smith's has marked its sponsorship of the annual Grand National horse race with an outdoor advertising blitz in Liverpool.

Industry-wide consultation on pre-pack administrations launched
The print industry will have the chance to respond to the government over SIP 16 and the pre-pack process, after minister for business Ian Lucas launched a consultation on improving the transparency...

The Printed Word installs UK's first Unibind Casemaker 750A
Commercial printer The Printed Word (TPW) has installed the UK's first Casemaker 750A from Belgian manufacturer Unibind.

Williams Lea wins seven-year RBS contract
Williams Lea has won the contract to take on the mailing operations of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) in a deal that will involve 275 RBS staff transferring to Williams Lea later this year.

Mutoh offers direct-to-textile ink
Mutoh has launched an ink for printing directly onto polyester as an alternative to dye sublimation for soft signage and double-sided flag applications.

HP ups presence in Spain and Portugal
HP has expanded its sales and support team in Iberia.
Amari extends graphic plastic products with ViPrint range
Amari Plastics has increased its focus on the print market by becoming a stockist of Vitasheet Group's ViPrint range of plastic graphics boards.

Canon launches trio of imagePrograf wide-format printers
Canon has introduced a trio of imagePrograf wide-format printers pitched at the photographic, proofing and fine arts markets.

Neschen introduces new self-adhesive inkjet film
Neschen has introduced the first of its self-adhesive inkjet films with Color Alliance (CA) coating to its range of products.

Impression Portugal leads push for greener paper posters in Europe
Impression Portugal has produced the first City Light campaign in Western Europe to be produced on recycled paper.

German printer buys Goss Sunday 5000 press
German web offset printer Stark Druck is to install Goss's 96-page Sunday 5000 press at its Pforzheim facility near Stuttgart.

Printers react to Budget with cautious optimism
The impact of the Budget's announcements on UK print has been greeted with cautious optimism by those in the sector.

Antony Rowe buys H+H folder as part of 400k spend
CPI Antony Rowe has rounded off a 400,000 post-press spend with a Herzog + Heymann (H+H)/MBO folding line and said the upgrade was critical to building its print-on-demand business.