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Once again the industry's leading lights helped celebrate the best of British print last night at the PrintWeek Awards 2008 gala dinner.

Experts from CEPI, Canon, BASF, Toyota and HP have been lined up to present case studies on their company's climate reduction strategies at the Sustainable Manufacturing Summit.

Three-quarters of small- to medium-sized businesses (SMEs) rarely or never bid for government work, according to a recent survey by three leading industry bodies.

Connect Communications has been awarded the City of Edinburgh Council's contract to design, print and deliver its <i>Outlook</i> magazine, which has a print run of 228,000.

Sensor Products has announced the release of the Mini Sigma-Nip, an electronic nip analysis system that yields extremely high resolution for the measurement of smaller nips.

EFI has agreed to acquire the remaining interest in Raster Printers for approximately $3m (1.7m), following its strategic investment in the company in November 2007.

Printers have challenged the industry to embrace the government's new climate change targets.

Ingram Digital has signed a global agreement with Penguin Group to host and distribute the publisher's e-book range.

Punch Graphix UK managing director David Mooney has said he will retire next year and will be replaced by Heidelberg and Kodak veteran Chris Matthews.

The number of unemployed people in the UK has risen at its fastest rate for 17 years to 1.79m over the past three months, prompting fears that the jobless total could reach 2m by Christmas.

Miniature finisher Clinical Print Finishing has questioned why more printers and finishers did not exhibit at this year's Total Print! Expo (TPE).

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CFH Total Document Management has posted a surge in pre-tax profits, from 101,000 to 1.7m in its 2007/2008 annual report.

Consumers are spending more on magazines than in previous years with a significant rise in the number of copies sold, according to The Advertising Statistics Yearbook 2008.

More than 40% of the UK's top 200 printers are ISO 14001 certified, according to GI Direct research - a rise of 17% on 2007 figures.