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Riverside moves into digital

Riverside Printing Company has made its first foray into digital print with a MAN Roland DICOpress 320.

Thompson deal goes to Europe

UK printers are set to lose out to the Continent as Thomson Directories enters the final negotiating stages for the contract to produce Thomson Local Directory.

Buying system from Forms UK

Solihull-based Forms UK has started operating a print buying software system called OASIS, which it claims can pinpoint the most appropriate supplier for a job in seconds.

HIT to purchase PaperExchange Euro technology

HIT International Trading has emerged as the new purchaser of PaperExchanges technology after the collapse of the deal with electronic marketplace specialist eSpeed.

Bass set for name change print task

Bass, the hotel and leisure group, is climbing a multi-million-pound print mountain to change its name to Six Continents.

Bernander fails to win Inveresk vote

Klippan Paper chairman Jan Bernander and his team lost out to the voting will of Inveresks shareholders at the firms AGM last Friday.

M-real launces new products for digital market

M-real has outlined its strategy for the digital marketplace, with the launch of the first products under the new name.

Merchants to end business with APP

Robert Horne and Howard Smith Paper have stopped trading with Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) after Friends of the Earth (FoE) attacked APPs forest sustainability methods.

Vio survival secured

A new owner for Vio has secured the survival of the firm at the eleventh hour

Telegraph opts for HP printer

Hewlett-Packard reseller Perfect Colours has sold a Hewlett-Packard Design-Jet 1050 to the <i>Daily Telegraph</i>, which the paper has introduced to its pre-press imaging department

GPMU welcomes European verdict

The GPMU has welcomed a ruling from the European Court of Justice that will give short-term workers entitlement to two days of paid holiday a month

ArtQuest adds PDF 1.2 support for Crescendo

ArtQuest has launched version two of its PDF-IT file format, which creates PDF 1.2 compatible files and is meant to ensure the pre-ripped file format will work with other firms RIPs

Gardners develops aluminium poster

Cardiff-based print group Gardners has developed what it claims is the worlds first all-aluminium outdoor poster campaign for the Audi A2 aluminium car

St Ives Burrups wins bank merger tender

St Ives subsidiary Burrups has won the tender to produce the massive mailing required as a result of the proposed Halifax/Bank of Scotland merger

Firm steps into Collabria gap

Printable Technologies has bought Collabrias hardware and software assets after its fellow California-based company ceased trading last week