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HP has announced a new high-speed wide-format ink-jet printer, the Designjet 4000.

Heidelberg's half-year results show that the press manufacturing giant has halved its losses and is on course to end the year back in the black.

Sly Baileys management shake-up at Trinity Mirror has continued with the appointment of Georgina Crace as managing director of regional newspapers.

Nova Direct Mail has established a new division and recruited additional staff as part of a fresh strategy.

Creo shareholders will be able to discuss the issues raised by dissident investor Goodwood and corporate turnaround veteran Robert Burton at a special meeting in three months' time.

Norwich-based New Jarrold Printing has bolstered its operations management team with three internal appointments.

Agfa has further refined its focus on printing with an agreement to sell its font business Agfa Monotype.

Arvato, Gruner + Jahr and Axel Springer have applied to the EU for approval of the planned merger of their gravure printing businesses.

Astron has made further in-roads into the US by signing a new three-year global contract with British Airways (BA), worth 45m over the period.

BASF Printing Systems president Michael Stumpp will leave the company when it merges with ANI Printing Inks at the end of the month.

Pressteks 22m ($40m) deal to buy AB Dick in the US will complete tomorrow, after approval for the deal was granted in a US court yesterday.

The Burall Group has appointed Andy Leet as the packaging and label specialist's executive chairman.

Goodman Baylis has hit back after a Worcester city councillor described the company as greedy over plans to move its factory.

Scorpio Print Finishing has bought Leicester-based Senator Print Finishers for an undisclosed sum, as part of an ongoing expansion of the business.

The Student Loans Company (SLC) has bought three DocuColor iGen3s in what is Xeroxs biggest ever digital press deal in the UK.