News

Mystery surrounds the identity of a "specialist sheetfed magazine printing company", which appeared in a Business for Sale advertisement in the <i>Financial Times</i> on 5 June

Goss Graphic Systems is to axe a quarter of staff at its Illinois headquarters in a bid to cut costs

The speed of Duncan Web Offsets closure has sent a shockwave through the industry

Xerox has unveiled bold plans for IPEX 2002 that will see it topple Heidelbergs long-established position as the events largest single exhibitor

Label specialist Burall Carwood has been placed into administrative receivership with BDO Stoy Hayward while its management investigates the possibility of a buyout

European trade unions including the GPMU are afraid that new plans for the production of the euro banknotes will lead to job losses among banknote printing staff across the continent

Vertis has added a layer of senior management to ensure operations run smoothly across the groups UK operations, owned by US company Big Flower

Apple Litho in Bristol has completed its 500,000 investment in new equipment with a complete Prinergy PDF workflow, Topsetter CTP system and digital proofing from Heidelberg

Roland DGA has become the only company that is able to offer Pantone Hexachrome-licensed wide-format printers

Global Graphics has reorganised its nine pre-press hardware subsidiaries and printing software companies into two divisions in a bid to "reflect the integration" of its businesses

Aprion Digital has signed up the first beta user for the 200m2-per-hour, six-colour roll-to-roll press it launched at Drupa

Walsall Security Printers (WSP) has acquired the name and production assets of Swiss stamp specialist Hlio Courvoisier

Maidenhead-based Williams Press has installed a Fujifilm Graphic Systems Luxel P-9600 CTP dual-beam platesetter running Brillia plates, replacing a ScanView Dot-Mate 7500

Birmingham-based Kalamazoo Security Print has created a sales manager position to lead its field sales team

ControlP has developed an online MIS software product, Internet Print Management System (IPMS), as it continues its migration from online print procurement to print software specialist