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Picon offers grant for graduate jobs

Picon is committing 1m over the next four years in a bid to encourage high-calibre graduates into the printing, papermaking, publishing and packaging industries

Vio extends capabilities to receiver e-mail

Vio users can now use their Vio inbox to receive files from non-Vio users via the internet, ISDN dial-up and FTP server transfer and to send files via e-mail using Vio Open

Court decision may limit use of electoral roll for DM

Spending on direct mail print could be halved, and customer-specific lists seriously affected, following a High Court interim decision objecting to the supply of the electoral register for direct...

Jarrolds wins two major Emap titles

Jarrold Printing has picked up contracts from two of its main competitors in the web offset market after winning Emap Performances <i>Mojo </i>and <i>Q</i>

Red Letter Bradford in move to Leeds

St Ives Direct is to relocate its Red Letter mailing operation from Bradford to Leeds, to give the business more space

Muller in tests of Covercrease

Post Press Products has been demonstrating its Covercrease product to Muller Martini in Switzerland over the past few weeks

Increasingly bleak future for Greaves

Polestar has revealed the problems facing its Greaves gravure site in Scarborough after the local press claimed its 350 staff had been told it could shut in April

Heidelberg is in no doubt on West Ferry

Heidelberg has dismissed speculation that part of its biggest ever order for West Ferry is in doubt

Barco Graphics profit warning

Barco says its profits will be less than half the level of last year

Dudley creditors take 3p per pound CVA

Dudley UKs creditors have unanimously voted to accept the companys creditors voluntary arrangement, which will see them receive 3p in the pound

Polestar in Greaves discussions

Polestar is in discussions with national officers of the GPMU due to on-going losses at Greaves, its Scarborough gravure plant.

Sunday Business secures future

<i>Sunday Business</i>, printed by Kent Messenger Group, will continue in a 36pp single-section format.

Heidelberg reveals Ipex plans at PPA seminar

Digital print will be as significant as offset to Heidelberg within seven years.

Chromoworks chapel rejects Polestar proposals

The Polestar Chromoworks GPMU chapel has gone against the wishes of the union's national command and voted against Polestar's proposals over redundancies and working conditions.

Ipex will be even bigger than in 1998

Ipex 2002 will be 10% larger than Ipex 98, according to organiser IIR, which said last week that it expects to have close to 2,000 firms exhibiting in April