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Sakurai sells new presses to the UK market

Sakurai has sold two of its new Oliver 466 SIP offset presses in Britain and Ireland and is looking to sell a third under a special offer

Ex-ICSM pair start UK print database

Former ICSM partners Steve Mepham and David Whitaker have launched National Print Database, a new information company for the printing industry

Fire at Midlands Screenprinters

Nearly 50 fire fighters battled to douse flames at the factory of a leading Leicester print firm this week

De La Rue eyes Polaroid bid

Security printer De La Rue may bid for a part of debt-mired Polaroid, which specialises in identity cards

Inveresk cuts jobs as losses increase

Inveresk is cutting 150 jobs, or 18% of its workforce, as part of a major cost-reduction programme

Screen offers fast production

Screen aims to outperform rivals in large-format film production by launching an imagesetter that exposes 20 eight-up films an hour

Printing.com selects Komori

Komoris colour control and quality of automation have won it a two-press order from internet and high street print shop Printing.com

St Ives moves forward with CTP plans in web arm

St Ives is pressing ahead with the introduction of CTP within its web division, and installed a system at Andover earlier this month

First UK Prosetter tested at Larkfield

A west Yorkshire firms pre-press set-up is the first in the UK to install Heidelbergs violet light CTP system, the Prosetter 102, with Meta-Dimension 2.5 RIP

Artwork profits hit by weak UK and US sectors

Artwork Systems has said strong European growth in the third quarter was offset by the weak UK and North American markets

Jo Simons takes helm at MCSi

Former Silicon Imaging owner Jo Simons has taken over the helm at MCSi following the retirement of UK managing director Keven Cooke

Barco drops GOP and recruits CT+line as UK agent

Barco aims to step up sales of its B1 and B2 CTP systems after making CT+line its UK agent

Heidelberg PDF solution set for Chicago launch

Heidelberg is to unveil a new version of its software to help users create individual PDF workflow to their specific needs, at Chicagos Print 01

Agfa confident in UK despite US drop

Agfa is bullish about its prospects in the UK, despite the US slump that has lopped its return on turnover from 10% last year to 6.4% for the first six months of the year

4Sight enables file delivery for every platform

Workflow firm 4Sight has launched two versions of software boasting seamless working across all platforms