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Key2 continues 200,000 spend with UK's first Mimaki JV33
Portsmouth-based display graphics printer Key2 Group has made its second wide-format investment in less than a year after opting for the UK's first Mimaki JV33.

Transport for London launches coveted tender for freesheet distribution
Transport for London (TFL) has launched a tender process for its morning freesheet slot, which could see The Metro ousted from tube stations for the first time in 11 years.

Printable Technologies posts record results despite downturn
Printable Technologies, the US-based web-to-print and variable data publishing software developer, has bucked the trend of the downturn by posting record results for the first quarter of 2009.

Xerox's Mulcahy steps down as chief executive after 33 years
Xerox chairman and chief executive Anne Mulcahy is to step down from her position and will be succeeded by the company's current president Ursula Burns.

Yell Group's UK print revenues down 11%
Print revenues at directory group Yell have dropped nearly 11% within its UK operation, however the company has reiterated its commitment to print.

St Ives moots Andover closure, 100 jobs at risk
St Ives has proposed the closure of its Andover web offset site, which could result in up to 100 job losses.

Oc CrystalPoint tech could find home printing solar cells and PCBs
Oc could extend the applications for its CrystalPoint imaging technology - currently used in the ColorWave 600 wide-format printer - into specialist industrial printing areas.

Polestar Sheffield in 500,000 upgrade to polybagging lines
Polestar Sheffield has invested 500,000 in upgrading its polybagging facilities.
Metal Paper gives creative finish to CD booklet
Metal Paper has teamed with home entertainment company Creative Productivity to pioneer an innovative effect for a client of Creative.
Binding Store moves to new site as business picks up
Online finishing kit reseller Binding Store has moved to a new 100m2 premises and showroom, following an upturn in business.
Agfa boss claims M-Press halves ink use
Agfa has revealed a raft of technologies designed to lower its customers' wide-format inkjet running costs.

Pixart.it adds second Durst Rho 320R as wide-format demand rises
Web-to-print printer pixart.it has ordered a second Durst Rho 320R machine to its expanding arsenal of wide-format kit.

Pepper Communications continues spending with platesetter buy
Plymouth-based direct mail printer Pepper Communications has made its second major investment within six months after opting for an Agfa Avalon N8-50 platesetter.

Netherlands' Fair-play display printer installs HP Scitex FB7500
Fair-play, an Amsterdam-based display printer operating in the point of sale, point of purchase and exhibition graphics markets, has installed HP's flagship Scitex FB7500 flatbed UV-cured press.
MTL unveils Meital 302/16 at Fespa
Israeli wide-format developer MTL Print presented its latest machine, the Meital 302/16 at Fespa Digital.