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Direct Smile and Creo tie up for VDP service

Creo Print On-Demand Solutions Group (PODS) has partnered with DirectSmile to deliver new services to the variable data market.

Oc will try to improve its profit margins by cutting 150-plus jobs

Oc is to cut 150 jobs in Europe as it aims to improve profit margins.

GeoPost challenges Royal Mail

GeoPost UK has become the latest firm to challenge Royal Mails bulk mailing service, with its new operation, mailplus.

Durst debuts its green Rho 350R

Durst is launching a roll-to-roll ink-jet printer, designed to meet ever-tightening environmental regulations.

DuPont well ahead of target as it launches its Cromaprint 22UV

DuPont has made its Cromaprint 22UV digital printing system commercially available in Europe.

LaserSoft scan tool revealed

German scanning-software firm LaserSoft has introduced a new version of its SilverFast software, which it claims can dramatically improve the quality of desktop scanners.

Atelier lands Centaur ezine archiving deal

Centaur has awarded Cornish pre-media firm Atelier a contract to develop a searchable digital archive for a number of its titles.

In Brief - P9

Apex Digital Graphics has appointed Kerry Hunniford as its new finance and personnel assistant. She joins her father Charles Hunniford, Apexs pre-press supremo at the Ryobi distributors new Hemel...

Connect, Esko complete cutting-edge JDF work

Connect Digital in Bury, Lan-cashire has finished what it and software supplier Esko-Graphics believe is one of the most advanced JDF integrations in packaging pre-press.

Polestar to close head office with 70 job cuts

Polestar is to close its headquarters and is reviewing its sales and customer services operations, the combination of which will result in 70 job losses.

Flawed 20 notes in circulation

Banknotes with major printing defects have gone into circulation, after De La Rue mixed up sheets of good and bad quality 20 notes.

Elliot storms back with Garden House

James Elliot is back in print after leading a management buy-in at West London commercial printer Garden House Press.

Quebecor plans spend to revive Europe arm

Quebecor World is planning comprehensive reinvestment in its European operations in a bid to improve its competitiveness after poor results from the Continent.

In Brief - page 4

St Ives Web has produced the launch editions of three magazines for Imagine Publishing 128pp <i>Mac Creative</i>, 100pp <i>Photoshop Creative</i> and 132pp <i>Digital Video Techniques</i>. The three...

TPF wins new 5m printing deal with Sky

The Print Factory (TPF) has secured a two-year contract to print Skys transactional mail, in a deal worth in excess of 5m, and bought a new London site.