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Fuji is to ramp up workflow automation from June with the launch of JDF-enabled module Pathway Submit and improvements to the Remote Approval module.

The PPA will be providing an update on the status of its fledgling digital photography standard pic4press at next months Magazines 2005.

Ancient House Printing Group has installed a 16pp Komori System 38S as part of a 3.5m spend, the largest in its 160-year history.

Polestar Sheffield has hit its ambitious target to have ink on paper by the end of March, starting production on the UKs widest-ever web.

The Northcliffe Press in Derby has reinstalled the Goss Colorliner 70 tower that was damaged by fire in January.

Geoff Neal Litho is set to replace a Heidelberg SM 102-6 with a CD 102 six-colour in a bid to improve flexibility and productivity at the direct mail and promotional print specialist.

Improved efficiencies and a higher added-value work mix are yet to flow through into Cradleys results losses in its print division increased by 12% in first-half trading.

Printers are facing paper and ink price rises, with paper set to go up by 4-8%.

Jamie Olivers feed me better campaign petition, which was handed to Tony Blair last week, was printed and bound by the Putney Kall Kwik.

Proskills, the aspirant Sector Skills Council for process and manufacturing which will cover print, is holding a series of roadshows later this month.

Kodak has completed its acquisition of Kodak Polychrome Graphics, but despite approval by Creo shareholders and the Canadian authorities its acquisition of Creo has been delayed.

Interactive posters have been printed for the release of New Orders new album, <i>Waiting for the Sirens Call</i>.

MAN Roland is set to launch a new pared down version of its R500 B2 sheetfed press, with prices starting at around 500,000 for a four-colour model.

Publisher Bloomsbury has declined to say what stock the next <i>Harry Potter</i> novel will be printed on, or who will print the book, citing security reasons.

Tyneside point-of-sale specialist Simpsongroup looks likely to install the first MAN Roland 900XXL outside London after breaking ground on its purpose-built 7m facility.