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Sun Chemical is to sponsor Vision in Prints Sustaining Lean the Seminar, which is being held later this month.

First Sellers Pack (FSP) has placed the worlds biggest order for Kodak NexPress digital presses, spending around 3m on the kit.

Allan Good, Hurst & Co, Britains oldest miniature print finisher, is looking forward to its 50th anniversary with a raft of new equipment in its sights.

X-Rite is to buy Amazys Holding, owner of GretagMacbeth, for around 160m ($300m) in cash and shares on 5 July.

The Ghent PDF Workgroup (GWG) elected new executive committee members at its general meeting in Paris.

Sun Chemical has launched a UV ink-jet printer to give a "unique and colourful" touch to CDs and DVDs.

Wales most powerful politician made a whistle-stop tour of Cambrian Printers last week to launch its latest installation, part of a planned 5m investment.

Kall Kwik has handed Konica Minolta official supplier status for all of its 160 print and copy centres.

Thieme KPX has become the sole UK distributor of German-made SPS Rehmus cylinder presses and has already secured its first sale.

MSO Group has shut its Galloways packaging plant in Manchester as part of its strategy to streamline the business following its high-profile acquisitions.

Polestar has won the contract to print Trinity Mirror supplement <i>Celebs on Sunday</i>, currently printed by Roto Smeets in the Netherlands.

Unity Chartered Accountants and Graphic Arts Finance have jointly launched Printers Exchange Network, an online mergers and acquisitions register for companies wishing to negotiate confidentially.

TripleArc went through a "difficult" 2005 but has posted year-end results "pretty much in line with expectations".

Insolvency firm Harris Lipman has closed Olwen Direct Marketing Services, the Croydon arm of Howitt, with the loss of all 130 jobs.

The latest overseas trade statistics posted by the BPIF show print exports have fallen while imports have increased.