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Record year for St Ives

St Ives has reported record annual results and its tenth successive year of earnings growth.

Polestar sees European future

Polestar has finalised the 24m deal to acquire Spanish gravure printer HelioColor.

Printers await end of third-party rebate

The Competition Commission's report on supermarket buying power has laid the foundations for the scrapping of the third-party rebate scheme.

Httprint buys PrintConnect

Httprint has acquired Boston-based PrintConnect.com, an Internet-based print production management service provider

BABS tipped to change hands

A change of ownership could be finalised in the near future at BABS International, the London-based supplier of finishing equipment for small printers

Burgo achieves world record for newspaper

Burgo has entered the Guinness Book of Records after its entry for the "world's biggest newspaper" approved by the Guinness Jury in Lausanne

Canon to mount challenge to Xerox

Canon hopes to shrug off its image as a photocopier firm and become a serious player in the graphic arts from the beginning of next year by challenging Xerox

3.7m investment at Carlton

Carlton Cards has spent 3.7m on gear including a new five-colour Komori Lithrone 540EH

Digital Squared offers online cards

A UK firm claims to have implemented the first mass-market Internet-based personalised printing system to produce greetings cards for football fans

Impact buys first UK PowerStream 100L

Impact Litho has spent 3m on a Heidelberg press unique to Britain and is inching closer to choosing a CTP system

Flint to offer new hybrid ink

Flint Ink unveiled a new hybrid UV ink at Graph Expo in Chicago

Fuji launches FineScan 2750

Fuji has launched what promises to be the lowest-priced XY scanner on the market

Hardy future in yet more doubt

Administrative receiver Ernst & Young may not sell Castleford's Hardy Business Forms as it has not been offered a satisfactory bid

Keyprint plans future around digital technology

Keyprint in Cheadle Hume, Cheshire, is to get the Indigo TurboStream that was used to print the Print UK Daily at last week's show

Litho Supplies takes five Platinums

Litho Supplies placed an order worth 250,000 with HighWater for five Platinum 2218 platesetters with LS62 plate processors at Print UK