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Unidigitals shares have been suspended on the American Stock Exchange (AMEX) and it has closed its US pre-press wing Kwik with the loss of 80 jobs

Electronics for Imaging (EFI) is to acquire Splash for 100m ($146m), in a deal which, if approved, will see EFI advance further into the digital colour server market

Acquisition-hungry Communisis, formerly the John Mansfield Group, has made operating profits of 6.8m on 74m turnover for the six months to 30 June

CPI has confirmed it is buying Mackays of Chatham to clamp an iron hold on UK book printing.

The OM Environment Exchange, the electronic marketplace for the trading of packaging recovery notes (PRNs), has traded almost 40,000 tonnes since it was established two years ago. It has marked this...

HighWater Designs has unveiled its PressMimic Print and PressMimic Design proofing software to the UK market

Rexams share price rose 12% to 280p its biggest one-day rise in a decade valuing the company at 1.11bn, after an interim pre-tax profit increase of 4% to 93m, which exceeded analysts expectations of...

KBAs sales for the first six months of the year were up to 292m (E473.5m) from 240m.

BasysPrint will launch a version of its UV-Setter computer-to-conventional platesetter for newspapers at Ifra next month.

British Polythene Industries (BPI), which issued a profits warning earlier this year, has sold its flexibles business, comprising Britannia Packaging in Stoke-on-Trent and an undisclosed amount of...

Wallpaper hand-printer Cole & Son, which produced the paper for Lord Irvines apartments, has been sold for 3m

Essexs Progressive Printing, which called in receivers two weeks ago, has been saved from closure by H&R Corrugated.

Dorchester-based Henry Ling has spent 1.2m on two new Heidelberg Speedmasters to increase capacity by 25%.

Chesapeakes European speciality packaging business has acquired Glasgow-based Lithoprint.

Canon has cut back on printed marketing materials following the adoption of an Internet-based personalised document delivery system.