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Cambridge Printers has installed two Oc digital presses in its Mercers Row premises in Cambridge.

An as yet unnamed Finnish paper company is planning to invest 136m ($250m) to build a 400,000 tonnes per annum recycled newsprint mill in India.

Cambridge Newspapers has picked up the contract to print <i>City AM</i>, Londons latest free newspaper which launched on Monday.

PrintCity Web Systems Group has revealed the findings of a nine-month study into the impact on the print and paper industry of using larger diameter paper reels.

Print management firm etrinsic is to extend its work with EDF Energy to cover marketing and direct mail print.

The Field Group has blamed difficult trading conditions and growing competition from Eastern Europe for the closure of its Field First carton site in Oldbury, West Midlands.

Johnston Press has reported a dip in contract printing revenues as it gears up to start installing its triple-width presses at Portsmouth and Sheffield.

Printhaus will be the first UK printer to install a press with KBAs innovative no sidelay technology.

Lotus Press in Poole, Dorset has become the first named user of Kodak GCGs violet commercial plate after installing a Highwater Python platesetter.

Wyndeham Press Group has bagged the double with style magazine <i>Wonderland</i>.

<i>The Guardian</i> will become the UKs first full-colour national newspaper and its only Berliner-format title, from Monday, just 13 months after signing press orders.

Manchester direct and transactional mail house K2 has expanded its sales team to 10 in a bid to increase its profile and bolster its Link2 and Kritikal divisions.

Label and packaging firm Leading Edge is opening a 3m fresh produce label factory in Peterborough.

Esko-Graphics (E-G) is being split up by its owner Kirkbi, which has sold the firms packaging wing to Danish private equity firm Axcel.

UK printers have reacted with dismay to paper merchants plans to raise coated and uncoated paper (pictured) prices by up to 9%.