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Biddles names CUP chief as managing director

W&G Baird Groups book printing arm Biddles has appointed Cambridge University Press print operations director Rod Willett as its new managing director.

Adobe ready to make JDF debut

Adobe will show its Creative Suite applications creating JDF job tickets for the first time at Drupa.

Centurfax readies Sprint for Drupa launch

Centurfax is hoping Sprint, a new low-cost tool to calibrate ink-jet printers and proofers, will repeat the success it had with the CCDot dotmeter.

Metrix layout tool promises savings

Positive Focus has won the contract to market a new layout calculator for flat and folded work.

Printpak aims to "revolutionise" tendering

Printpak has secured a 75,000 research and development grant from the Department of Trade and Industrys Small Business Service to look at creating a web-based estimating system that it claims could...

Purnell saved by staff vote

Workers at Polestar Purnell have voted in favour of new terms and conditions, saving the loss-making plant from closure.

Heidelberg figures better than expected

Heidelberg has announced headline figures in advance of its preliminary results, which are better than it expected.

Wheatley buys CTD Capita

Industry veteran Leonard Wheatley has bought report and accounts specialist CTD Capita.

Vutek launches low cost flatbed

Vutek has launched a lower cost version of its PressVu UV-cured flatbed ink-jet printer.

Fuji wins Broughton Printers plate business

Fujifilm Graphic Systems has secured an exclusive deal to supply Broughton Printers with plates, winning the deal from Agfa, which was the major supplier.

Esko-Graphics launches CTCP machine

Esko-Graphics has unveiled its long-awaited computer to conventional plate (CTCP) platesetter.

Violet prompts double-digit results for Fujifilm

Fujifilm Graphic Systems recorded double-digit growth in its UK business last year.

Accord installs eProof remote proofing pack

Accord Holdings has become the first UK user of remote proofing and approval package eProof RapidImageView.

Enfocus revamps PDF creation tool

Enfocus has launched a new version of Instant PDF, which makes accurate PDF creation simpler.

6.5m Italian Burgo mill ready

Burgo has completed a 6.5m (R10m) investment at its Chieti mill in Italy.