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This years British Association for Print and Communications (BAPC) annual conference has been certified as carbon neutral by carbon management organisation co2balance.

BPIF president and CPI UK chief executive Mike Taylor has become the official patron for the Proskills-run PrintIT! scheme.

International Greetings (IG) has gained a foothold in the Australian market with the purchase of a 50% stake in Artwrap Pty for an initial payment of 1.63m (A$3.75m).

One of Britains most infamous print criminals has been sentenced to six years in prison for his part in a counterfeiting operation.

Sharkey has installed an Oc TCS500, which has cut outsourcing costs by 60%.

Capita, the business process outsourcing giant behind projects such as the London Congestion Charge, is to mount an assault on the print management market after poaching Communisis print management...

Publishing pre-press sup-plier Atex Group has won a major contract with Independent News & Media (INM) to provide cross-media and content management software.

HP is looking to grow its presence in the wide-format sector with the launch of a new online platform for signage printers.

Robotics are to be incorporated into printing presses for the first time in an initiative by MAN Roland that will cut makeready times on newspaper presses to just two and a half minutes.

Bordeaux Digital PrintInk has launched a water-based pigmented ink for piezo-inkjet technology.

Job fears at RR Donnelleys directory printing site, Flaxby Moor, have been allayed after another fire at the site proved not to be as disastrous as first thought.

UV drying could become a viable alternative to heatset drying for newspaper printers looking to expand out of coldset printing, according to a report from PrintCity to be released early next year.

Xerox has unveiled two new printers that make colour printing as inexpensive as black and white, by using the latest generation of its solid ink technology.

Cambrian Printers has further enhanced its environmental credentials after revealing that it will print all of its standard work on FSC-certified paper.

Benhamgoodheadprint (BGP) has vowed not to repeat the mistakes of its past as work began on its new 25m Bicester web-offset supersite last week.