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An apparently obscene picture of celebrity chef Jamie Oliver in the <i>Boots Christmas Gift Guide</i> is not what it seems and the catalogue will not be withdrawn.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has called for fines on large companies that are found guilty of health and safety breaches to be as high as for those that break financial rules.

There are tentative signals that printers margins are improving.

The MetalFX metallic ink technology has been used for Safeways The Best Christmas range packaging.

The majority of companies are unable to estimate how much they spend on maintaining and producing documents a year, a new Xerox-backed report has found.

Alcan Packaging in Cumbria has produced the packaging for a new range of haircare and styling products from celebrity hairdresser Richard Ward.

Inprint has developed Reverse-Cut, an extension of its Extended Text leaflet label thats designed for more secure printing applications.

Sappi plans to close its London sales office and cut 150 European jobs in 2004, with Fine Paper chief executive Bill Sheffield among those leaving the company.

Kodak Polychrome Graphics (KPG) has sold its first Matchprint Pro Server colour proofing package in the UK to design company Millini.

The Print Education Forum (PEF) has reassured the industry that there will be little difference in the training support it receives after formally taking control this week from the PGC NTO.

The Artisan Press, the Leicester-based web offset printer, is mourning the death of founder Les Sankey, aged 94.

Printing.com, the high-street chain, has managed to increase its interim turnover and pre-tax profit despite significant disruption to operations during its move to a new production hub.

RR Donnelley will overtake Quebecor World as the worlds largest commercial print group after agreeing a 1.6bn ($2.8bn) stock-based acquisition of Canadian commercial printer Moore Wallace.

Norske Skog has grown its third-quarter earnings and income, despite lower prices, thanks to increased efficiencies and beneficial exchange rates.

Spear, the clear-label manufacturer based in Wales and the US, has launched a joint venture with the Illochroma Labelling Group to provide labels to the beer industry.