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Keldia Printings administrators were asking for bids from Alito Colour, Thomas Potts, Bridge Direct and Delta Display to hit their desks today

Just 150 staff are to remain at Xeroxs Gloucestershire plant after it announced 1,300 job losses due to a Flextronics deal this week

Long service in the Coates group of companies was recognised at a special event in London last week

One of Europes biggest folding-carton firms, Field Group, may close two of its Scottish factories and is set to shed staff because of the tumbling economy

Vitesse Printing in London has set up a corporate arm, Vitesse Corporate, which is being run by two ex-Burrups employees, Duncan Summers and John Morris

The administrators for Sheffield-based packaging printer Greenup & Thompson have cut 29 staff from a total of 100

Muller Martini has signalled its intention of becoming the hardcover market leader, at the inauguration of its new VBF building at Bad Mergentheim in Germany

Tech-ni-Fold has sold a further 100 of its Tri-Creaser units to Heidelberg

National Print Database is using the cheque guarantee services of Transax so its customers can accept cheques as if they were cash

Southend-on-Sea pre-press service provider J Jays has selected WAM!NET to provide its communications infrastructure

New company Northeast Equipment Services is complaining to the Office of Fair Trading after Agfa wrote to suppliers asking them not to provide Northeast with certain kit parts

ECRM Imaging Systems has decided to change its European pricing policy from US dollars to euros in a bid to boost sales of imagesetters

Thomson Directories has installed 38 new Heidelberg Linoscan 1450 desktop scanners and around 40 new Macintoshes

Londons Marshall Offset has invested 1.25m in new pre-press, press and finishing equipment from Heidelberg

Indigo and Nilpeter have announced an OEM agreement, which will see the inline finishing solutions for Indigos WebStream 100, 200 and 400 digital presses being sold through Indigo as a single package