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Fresh KBA UK managing director Christian Knapp has put commercial sheetfed and commercial web among his top priorities

MiniMail, the independent print management division of direct response agency JDA, has secured its first contract - worth 200,000 - with PPP Healthcare

PrintRepublic has started the year with a move into hardware sales, notching up the sale of its first wide-format printer

UK printers will be able to get an early look at the new 4pp Screen TruePress 744, when the company's UK facility takes delivery of a test machine in the autumn

Spectrum Flair Group has made the move to CTP as part of a 400,000 revamp of its repro facilities

Stora Enso is talking to possible buyers about the sale of the assets at its Newton Kyme mill in Yorkshire

Initial negotiations after Astron's merger with Tactica have led to nine staff at Tactica's Norwich headquarters taking redundancy

Wavelength's John Conway has responded to last week's article about his publishing activities by slamming UK magazine printers as being "unable to deliver consistently good quality on time"

WebMart has launched an online trading system - www.buyweboffset.com - which it claims will save printers hundreds of pounds per new account and sell their spare capacity

Westvaco is renaming the multimedia packaging companies it acquired last year as AGI Media Packaging from 1 February

Yellow Pages is holding trials with full-colour directories, which, if successful, would use RR Donnelley's colour capacity at its new 37m premises at Knaresborough

Colombier has launched Colmart.com, an online paper-buying marketplace backed by the company's converting capability

The administrative receiver for Donside Paper Company is talking to "seven or eight interested parties" about the possible sale of the business

Excel Print is set to install the UK's first Heidelberg CutStar sheeter, an add-on for its new Speedmaster 102 that allows it to use paper reels

Komori is installing a four-unit System 38SII web in its Leeds showroom, making it the only press manufacturer with a demonstration web in the country.