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Daventry-based Creation Repro has installed a CDI Spark 4835 digital flexo platemaker, underpinned by a full EskoArtwork workflow.

Corporate insolvencies have risen to their highest levels since the fall out from the dot-com crash, according to statistics compiled by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

The Highlands' largest print company has been closed because administrators were unable to find a buyer for the company after it went into administration on 26 February.

The UK Minuteman Group has invested in a Presstek DI digital offset press, in order to improve its short- to medium-run four-colour work.

Print management company Communisis has indicated that its profits for the first-quarter of 2008 are in line with expectations and it expects this to continue in the second-quarter of this year.

CPI Antony Rowe has won the contract to partner Faber & Faber in its new on-demand book printing initiative, Faber Finds.

Europe's newest gravure supersite, the Prinovis plant in Speke, Liverpool, is now in full production.

Fujifilm's Graphic Arts division reported a 7% increase in turnover, from 1.4bn to 1.5bn, in its year-end results last week, beating the group-wide rise of 2.3%.

Polestar Petty's post-press department has boosted its inserting capabilities following an investment in kit from WRH Marketing.

Marston Books Services has become the UK's first company to purchase a Duplo DC-445 Ducreaser.

X-Rite has experienced a backlash from its aggressive acquisition programme of the last two years, as recent loan defaults have led to a massive fall in its share price.

Former workers at the Somerset book printer Butler and Tanner (B&T) are planning to hold a demonstration march through Frome today in protest at the actions of the company, which made 287 staff...

TechNova Imaging Systems in India has commissioned a high-speed, fully integrated and automated digital plate manufacturing line, which will bring plate production to 36m sqm each year.

General Motors has made an investment in a US company that is working on ways to convert non-grain sources, including the waste pulp from paper mills, into biofuels.

Former employees of the company previously known as Abbey Green Repro are hoping to recover their unpaid wages having pooled together to put the company into administration.