News

Excelprint has closed with 60 redundancies so far after the administrator failed to find a buyer for the business.

Bezier has produced point of sale (POS) material for travel agent First Choices Travel Shops and Holiday Hypermarkets.

Print and design firm Colne VCS has launched a campaign targeting print buyers to drum up business and ease the production process for clients.

Cepiprint figures on the European demand and supply of newsprint and magazine grades show an annual capacity growth rate of 2.7% from 2000-2003.

Ink-jet technologies were the ground-breaking stars of the show at Drupa according to digital print consultancy IT Strategies.

Ink-jet printer manufacturer Domino has shipped out its 50,000th A-Series printer from its Cambridge factory.

Leicester-based print firm Phoenix Colour has installed a new HP Indigo 3000 as it attempts to convince more of its clients to incorporate personalisation and special colour work.

The Barclay brothers have won the race to buy the Telegraph Group, in a 665m deal struck late last night.

Augustus Martin has bought the UK's first Rapida 205, the super large format sheetfed litho press from KBA, in an investment worth more than 3m.

Troika Systems has linked up with Fujifilm Electronic Imaging (FFEI) to launch an economical automatic double-sided proofer.

The BPIF has released preliminary figures showing a profit, excluding pension costs, of 265,000, while income, excluding training, is up by 8%.

Scottish GPMU members have voted two to one in favour of a pay increase of 2.75% on basic earnings, equivalent to 6.60 per week for grade B skilled workers.

Scorpio Print Finishing will create 50 new jobs over the next few months and is eyeing up possible acquisitions.

Friedheim International is targeting an innovative new finishing device at web printers and binderies looking for greater efficiency.

Manchester print group Gask & Hawley (G&H) has acquired JCM Print Services from the administrators.