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Mannin Media Group has installed the UKs first Cobalt-4 violet platesetter at its Isle of Man base.

Thames McGurk, the London-based packaging design and artwork agency, is the first UK company to alpha test Esko-Graphics desktop packaging production tool, DeskPack.

Creo has launched its new Six Degrees desktop software with a low-cost introductory offer of just 79.

Domino Printing Sciences, the manufacturer of ink-jet equipment, is confident of its position to take advantage of any upturn in demand, despite static results for the first half of the year.

Brighton-based copyshop Colourfast has become the first firm in the UK to use EFIs PrintMe Network.

Signage specialist Appleton Signs in Southampton has installed a second Vutek UltraVu 3360 EC to meet demand.

Httprint has confirmed it has secured extra funding and has bought Publishers Market, a Munich-based firm that specialises in web-enabled print advertising workflow.

Former Photobition Display and Warrens managing director Justin Jackson is heading up a new large-format print, manufacturing and design technology company, Xpo Group.

Digiset has moved into digital printing with the installation of an AB Dick Colour Press, which cost 120,000.

Norscan pulp stocks fell by 99,000 tonnes in May, prompting further price increases in the US and speculation that European producers may follow suit.

Talk Paper has secured the deal to sell Stora Ensos Berga brand of multi-purpose office papers exclusively in the UK.

Genetically modified poplar trees can make the pulp and paper-making process easier and less costly by reducing the amount of chemicals required, according to researchers at the University of Dundee.

Stora Enso is to embark on a feasibility study on the possibility of building an integrated pulp and paper operation in the Guangxi Zhuang region of China.

Sdra has invested 21.1m (SKr300m) in two environmental improvements at its Mrrums Bruk pulp mill.

Communic<small>^8</small>, the print supply chain management firm backed by Virgin, has reported over 15m of business in its first 12 months of trading.