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Bezier InfoShade a success

Bezier has incorporated its InfoShade product into point-of-sale campaigns for Dulux Weathershield and Allied Bakeries.

Creos Preps 5.0 debuts in UK

Upgraded Workflow imposition tool Creo Preps 5.0 is now available in the UK. The system, launched this month, will be distributed by Positive Focus.

DHM unlikely to continue as a trading firm

David Hulme Machinery (DHM) is no longer operating as a fully operational business according to its administrator, David Cockshott of BWC Business Solutions.

Digital generates marketing power

Printers will have more influence on marketing campaigns if they move towards digital print technology according to two marketers at a Hewlett-Packard (HP) event last week.

Print takes rap for postal vote fiasco

The validity of the 10 June local and European postal vote could be in doubt after printing problems forced more than 500,000 ballot packs to be hastily reprinted over the Bank Holiday weekend.

Surprise as Aspen calls in administrators

Gloucestershire-based print firm Aspen Preprint has gone into administration and laid off the majority of the 54 members of staff.

Times brings print deadlines forward

A shortage of presses to print both tabloid and broadsheet editions of The Times has led to a change in editorial deadlines.

DMA launches junk mail solutions site

The Direct Mail Association (DMA) has linked up with environmental group Planet Ark in a campaign to end the publics junk mail misery.

Documedia lands more new clients

Documedia Solutions has signed eight contracts with new and existing clients, each with the potential to be worth over 500,000 a year.

EC steps up probe into cartel claims

More paper companies have been the subject of European Commission investigation raids into price fixing and cartel allegations, as the net has spread wider and into the US. The latest raids follow...

German regulator fines cartel firms

The German competition authority Bundeskartellamt has imposed fines totalling 38.4m (Euro57.6m) against 12 paper merchants and 46 individuals.

Impressive sales seal Creos Drupa

Creo has closed Drupa with impressive sales in both pre-press kit and consumables, on the back of a plethora launches.

JDF 'highway' team formed

Heidelberg UK has linked up with print MIS developers Shuttleworth and OCSL to establish JDF links.

PaperCo finds substitute for defunct Carrs

Merchant stockist PaperCo is to sell the M-real Zanders-manufactured Autocopy Xtra carbonless grade as an alternative to Carrs Papers Signal Plus.

Petty site is sold in leaseback deal

The Polestar Group has made a sale and leaseback deal of its Polestar Petty plant to US-based investment firm WP Carey for 15.5m ($27.7m).