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Utility firms across the UK have begun schemes to offer paperless billing to reduce print costs and to help the environment.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne-based pharmaceutical packaging specialist Jaycare has been bought by a venture capitalist company for the second time in four years.

Print management company Dataform is aiming to push its turnover up to 100m in three years, to compete with Williams Lea and Astron.

St Ives is to take another multi-million pound exceptional hit as it moves to reduce costs in its multimedia division.

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has reported record first quarter figures for its imaging and printing division; and revenues and operating profits for the group have both increased.

ArjoWiggins Carbonless Papers has installed new equipment at its Fort William mill as part of an on-going investment programme.

Albert Follens, worldwide head of Agfas Graphic Systems business unit, said the companys mission was to support the power of print, as it announced a raft of Drupa launches.

The founder and managing director of MidSystem Technology, Chris Hodges, has launched workflow management company Wave2.

A new fully automatic VLF platesetter, the Magnus, which Creo claims is the fastest available, heads up its Drupa launches.

UV-cured wide-format ink-jet printers were the most significant launches at Ocs open house last week.

UV-curable ink-jet is the top growing sector of the wide-format printing equipment market says market research firm CAP Ventures.

Delphax Technologies says that its CR2000 printer will rival Kodaks Versamark ink-jet machines, with higher resolutions and speeds when it launches at Drupa.

Xeikon is aiming to achieve 60 installations of its new 5000 digital press this year, and has already pre-sold four.

Agfa, EFI, Heidelberg and Screen have issued a joint statement committing to interoperability with other CIP4 JDF products.

Lenticular print specialist Hive Associates is to produce lenticular postcard inserts for Nestl Purina brand Winalot in IPC Medias monthly publication <i>Essentials</i>.