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Tradebrigade, the trade print division of B&P Lightbrigade has announced an investment of over 500,000 in grand format equipment.

Richard Desmond has joined the race to produce full-colour newspapers by revealing a 20m injection for West Ferry print plant.

HP Labs in Bristol has developed a low cost prototype plastic liquid crystal display (LCD), which if fully developed could replace some print.

Cestrian has opened a dedicated staff-training centre as part of its 4m investment programme announced earlier this year.

KBA UK is upping the ante in the sheetfed market under new executive sales director Mark Nixon.

High-end typesetting and publishing software firm Advent3B2 has been bought by Arbortext for an undisclosed sum.

Quarks fight back in the desktop publishing market continued with the launch of the latest version of QuarkXPress, which will ship within a month.

The Finnish Forest Certification Council (FFCC) has rebutted claims by Greenpeace that its certification scheme fails to prevent the logging of old-growth forests.

CIP4 is to focus on extending JDF and improving education for printers over the next year, after electing its advisory board and board of directors.

UK paper merchants and 15 European paper manufacturers met for the first time earlier this month at a forum, in Ware, Hertfordshire, to discuss ways of improving efficiencies.

Paragon Labels has become the first UK company to take delivery of an HP Indigo 4050.

Kingswood Steele has been revealed as the first UK Xerox DocuColor 8000 customer.

Greetings card company Hallmark International has switched to CTP installing one of the UKs first Creo Magnus platesetter.

Stoate and Bishop Printers has rounded off a 1m investment program with new bindery equipment, turning it into a fully Heidelberg operation.

Datapro Data Presentation is working with publisher the Naval and Military Press to produce copies of previously unavailable rare books.