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CPI is on the brink of strengthening its grip on the UK book printing market by acquiring Mackays of Chatham.

Mike Newbould has returned to York Direct as managing director, after leading a buyout of the firm he left in 1998.

Polestar sales and marketing director John Ashfield has dismissed rumours that the group had plans to close its Greaves gravure plant in Scarborough as scurrilous.

Adobe announced Photoshop 6.0, a major revamp of the imaging program, at Seybold this week.

Alden Press will be the UK beta site for Purup-Eskofots Dicon computer to conventional platesetter.

The future of Heidelbergs fledgling Consumables division HQ in France, which was established earlier this year, is in question.

KPMG and Moore Stephens Booth White have been appointed joint administrators of In-a-Flap Envelope Company Ltd after the Surrey firm was wound up at Londons High Court last week owing over 1m.

Harlequin has bought the digital publishing division of 5D, which developed the Jaws RIP and PDF Creator

Hewlett-Packards new large-format ink-jet printers are set to smash current price/performance barriers.

Mets-Serla is negotiating exclusively with International Paper to acquire its 72% majority shareholding of Zanders Feinpapiere.

A year after it went on sale, Adobe InDesign has seen a disappointing uptake, claims a US research firm.

Paper and packaging specialist Bunzl announced pre-tax profits of 81.2m for the past six months, a rise of 15%

IBM has withdrawn a threat to take Shere Arts to court for an outstanding 240,000 after admitting to a mistake. Not all departments of IBM had been made aware that the legal threat was being made in...

Karran Group has expanded its presence in cardboard engineering with the purchase of Corbys Swan Packaging.

Communisis has announced a major restructure at subsidiary Howitts in Nottingham, which will ultimately lead to the sale of the business. <br><br>