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Workshop 05, the collaborative JDF-linked open house at Komoris showroom in Leeds, has been hailed a success with over 215 visitors attending from 113 companies.

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has agreed to sponsor a project that will completely review the paper-making national agreement.

Pupils at Ysgol Hen Felin school in Wales, for children with learning difficulties, are to have their artwork published in a 2006 calendar, produced by Cardiff-based HSW Print.

Former Olwen Direct Mail partners Andy Ruddle and Peter Rivett are back in print with a 20m venture they claim will shake up the digital print and direct mail markets.

Two former Vertis employees have set up their own print management company targeting local firms in Leicester.

St Ives Web is to install a 32pp Goss M600 press (pictured) at its Plymouth site as it nears the end of its group-wide press upgrade programme.

Howitt has acquired Olwen Direct Mail and VMT from Mark Scanlons Overgoal, which bought them from Vertis at the start of October.

Kodaks Graphic Communications Group (GCG) has announced that it will be increasing the price of its consumables at the end of 2005 as it is no longer able to absorb increasing costs.

Some of the UKs largest printing firms have received a written notification from the National Grid Transco that a severe winter could lead to their gas being cut off because of insufficient reserves.

Roy Caslon and John Brazier, chairman and chief executive of Picon, will represent manufacturers and suppliers from the print industry at a meeting with Industry and the Regions minister Alun Michael.

Workshop 05, the collaborative JDF-linked open house at Komoris showroom in Leeds, has been hailed a success with 215 visitors attending from 113 companies.

Speedlith has bought the Avalon LF straight from Agfas stand at last weeks Digital Print World, where the platesetter was given its UK debut.

Maypole Press & Publishing has bought a Ryobi 525GX to add more colour to its expanding range of publications.

PrintIT! is looking for more printers to twin with schools in the industrys first curriculum-based educational programme.

German CTP newcomer DotLine has expanded its platesetter range with two machines aimed at the commercial and newspaper markets.