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Richard Crabtree, the former UK sales director of Pomeroy Pressroom Products, has died after a long battle against cancer.

Thomas Potts new chief executive, Mark Scanlon, plans to get the groups companies to operate in a more orchestrated fashion to produce a more integrated service.

Applied Optical Technologies is tightening up its European and American set-ups to help ease it into profit after a loss of 8.3m before tax.

A leading print credit checker has cautiously welcomed new laws announced last week to slap more charges on late payers of bills.

The Newspaper Society is set to launch an upgraded version of its AdFast artwork delivery software later this month as the volume of file transfers on its network reaches new peaks.

Bayer Group, the German chemical firm, has sold its 30% stake in pre-press supplier Agfa and will plough the 128m into expansion.

NexPress will offer QuarkXPress XTension Personalizer-X for its customers to produce variable data documents.

Hewlett-Packards Imaging & Printing Group (IPG) continues to be the firms cash cow, generating the strongest growth and profits following its merger with Compaq.

Publishing Paper Solutions has reached an agreement with paper management software provider Perfected Solutions to establish a new joint venture, Perfected Paper Solutions.

A student at the University of Salford has won a Sony Design Award for a mobile phone design made from paper at this years Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufacturing and Commerce...

Polestar will print 30m catalogues for The Cotswold Company over the next two years after it was retained as printer for the list generating insert catalogue.

On-the-ball thinking landed Northwich-based print management company Thinkprint an order to print thousands of mini footballs for Tesco stores across Ireland.

Preprint Imaging in Leeds has done all the repro for the World Cup Guide Book, published by CF Media in four countries, amounting to a total print run of 330,000 copies.

Bayer, the German chemical firm, has sold its 30% stake in pre-press supplier Agfa and will plough the 128m gain into expansion.

Thomas Potts' new chief executive Mark Scanlon plans to get the groups companies to operate in a more orchestrated fashion to produce a more integrated service.