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The validity of the 10 June local and European postal vote could be in doubt after printing problems forced more than 500,000 ballot packs to be hastily reprinted over the Bank Holiday weekend.

Gloucestershire-based print firm Aspen Preprint has gone into administration and laid off the majority of the 54 members of staff.

A shortage of presses to print both tabloid and broadsheet editions of The Times has led to a change in editorial deadlines.

The Direct Mail Association (DMA) has linked up with environmental group Planet Ark in a campaign to end the publics junk mail misery.

Documedia Solutions has signed eight contracts with new and existing clients, each with the potential to be worth over 500,000 a year.

More paper companies have been the subject of European Commission investigation raids into price fixing and cartel allegations, as the net has spread wider and into the US. The latest raids follow...

The German competition authority Bundeskartellamt has imposed fines totalling 38.4m (Euro57.6m) against 12 paper merchants and 46 individuals.

Creo has closed Drupa with impressive sales in both pre-press kit and consumables, on the back of a plethora launches.

Heidelberg UK has linked up with print MIS developers Shuttleworth and OCSL to establish JDF links.

Merchant stockist PaperCo is to sell the M-real Zanders-manufactured Autocopy Xtra carbonless grade as an alternative to Carrs Papers Signal Plus.

The Polestar Group has made a sale and leaseback deal of its Polestar Petty plant to US-based investment firm WP Carey for 15.5m ($27.7m).

The countdown to PrintWeeks best-read feature, the Power 100, has begun and several of those candidates known to have made the list assembled at Stationers Hall last week for a special photoshoot.

Edinburgh-based print firm Stewarts has been bought out by its management for an undisclosed sum.

Curtis Fine Papers has reached agreement with the GPMU to close its Dalmore mill, with the loss of 100 jobs, around a quarter of its workforce.

Escalating losses at its metallised paper division have seen API post an operating loss in its first half, and the group has also parted company with chief executive Derek Ashley.