News

KBA hopes to broaden reach and accelerate its penetration in the UK sheetfed and web markets with a new in-house press-financing programme.

MAN Roland has hit back in the web market with a 6.5m order from Precision Colour Printing for the UKs first 10-unit Rotoman.

Fentons in Leeds has gone into voluntary liquidation after a poor summers trading.

The Stationery Office has won the contract to handle all the printing and publishing for Investors in People UK in a five-year deal worth 9m.

Print Design & Graphics (PDG), the Tyneside carton printer, has won the contract to print the packaging for a range of 28 soups for Erin Foods, an Irish division of Campbells Soups.

Polestar has won its first direct mail order from Argos Retail Group, already a customer on the catalogue side of its business.

Vertis Leicester has printed the pop-up cover for the latest issue of <i>ELLE Decoration</i>.

Independent paper agent Rosemount Paper will launch Beaujolais, a double-coated woodfree grade, to coincide with this years Beaujolais day in November.

Antalis has announced investments in the millions that will focus on enhancing its customer service.

Scientists at Philips have produced a high-contrast electronic paper that could be suitable for e-posters, e-newspapers, or video.

Bovince has installed two NUR Fresco wide-format digital presses as part of a re-engineering of its operations.

T/R Systems, the software developer bought by Electronics For Imaging last month, has launched an entry-level web submission tool in a bid to increase printers level of service to their customers.

Canon has unveiled two new colour digital printers targeted at the commercial market.

Three manufacturers have announced major developments in flexo pre-press.

Group Logic and its UK distributor, NCS Integrated Solutions, have upgraded the ExtremeZ-IP file- and print-sharing software to fully support Windows 2003 servers and Windows XP.