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Mercury and BPIF launch new online training and apprentice service

Recruitment consultant Mercury Search and Selection has launched a new online service to help inform employers and employees of the careers and apprenticeships available in print.

MP accuses Brown of 'blunder' for printing Digital Britain report

Liberal MP Dan Rogerson has hit out at the printing costs of the Digital Britain report, which he is quoted in local news sources as claiming to be 28,000.

Czech firm Conkline eyes export opportunities with Europe's first Vutek QS3220

Conkline has ordered Europe's first Vutek QS 3220, the upgraded version of the UV-cured machine that was launched in May at Fespa Digital 2009.

EFI consolidates UV ink production for Vutek and Jetrion in Ypsilanti Michigan

Vutek is consolidating the production of UV-cured ink from two sites to one.

Duplo kit 'invaluable' for Royal Navy printer

An in-house printer for the Royal Navy's Portsmouth base has upgraded its finishing department with a DC615Pro from Duplo.

Power 100 - Public vote ranking

See how the public voted in our 2009 PrintWeek Power 100...

Proskills launches National Skills Academy

Proskills launched the long-awaited National Skills Academy for the process and manufacturing sectors last night as it published research highlighting the negative effect the skills gap is having on...

Hibbert highlights positives despite 179.6m pre-tax loss

Polestar Group chief executive Barry Hibbert has stressed that the company's underlying trading result, an EBITDA of 51.1m, was "pretty reasonable" given the current economic climate.

Integrity Print increases turnover to 60m

Integrity Print has posted an 11% increase in turnover in its first year's trading since managing director Mark Cornford led a 12.8m MBO in July 2008.

Cosmo finalises GBC purchase

Indian lamination film manufacturer Cosmo Films has finalised the purchase of US counterpart GBC Commercial Laminating Systems.

CDMS chief exec leaves company

Stephen Clark has left print, mail and data group CDMS after three-and-a-half years as chief executive.

Mergers in newspaper sector possible, says OFT

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has said it is up to regional newspaper publishers to test the water for merger proposals, following the publication of the Digital Britain report last week.

AGI & Loveurope accredited to Fogra as PMC awaits BPIF plans

Packaging printer AGI Media and pre-press company Loveurope have both been awarded the Fogra certification for colour management, which is based on the ISO 12647-2 standard.

Carousel brings repro in-house with 25,000 spend

Carousel Envelopes has brought all of its pre-press work in-house following a 25,000 investment in equipment and a new mezzanine floor at its Leeds-based factory.

Presstek aims to become fourth major player with plate launch at Print 09

Presstek hopes to unveil its next-generation plate technology at this year's Print 09 trade show as it targets a significant increase in its global market share.