News

National Association of Paper Merchants (NAPM) president Henry Cubbon has called on merchants, mills and customers to work together to improve current working practices.

New Jarrold Printing has won the contract to print Zee Magazine, a launch for subscribers to the Asian Zee TV network.

Ipswich printer Five Castles Press is under new ownership after a management buy in/buy out deal.

Offset plate manufacturer Noretsu is to exhibit at Drupa for the first time and will announce an agreement with a machine manufacturer.

OneVision will launch JDFnet at Drupa, a tool for linking its products to third-party workflows and MIS using JDF.

Pantone has got together with Xerox to produce the first digital version of its printed chips on the DocuColor 6060 machine.

Pensord Press has established a charitable fund to raise money for good causes on a pound-per-quote basis.

Polestar Colchester is to print a magazine from The Guardian targeting senior public and private sector managers.

A raft of senior management changes is underway at Polestar including a high-profile entrant and exit.

Presstek is to launch its next generation platesetter, Dimension Excel at Mays Drupa exhibition.

Pyramid Printers has bought its first MAN Roland R305 with double perfector in a deal worth over 500,000.

Quark is relaunching its UK division, several years after the firm scaled back its operations here.

Plans by the Royal Mail to shake up postal prices based on size as well as weight have been dubbed a tax on creativity by the DM sector.

Sheffield is looking increasingly likely to be Polestars favoured site for its greenfield gravure site, while Liverpool has emerged as a possible choice for Arvatos proposed UK gravure plant.

The Scottish Police College has beefed up its printing capacity with two Xerox DocuColor 6060 presses.