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News International to adopt QuickCut

The advertising community has welcomed News Internationals (NI) decision to drop gatekeeper repro charges from next April.

Mitsubishi promotes Jenkinson

Roy Jenkinson will take over the reins as managing director of Mitsubishi Lithographic Presses in the UK from 1 January, following the retirement of Takeshi Kotani.

PrintWeek gains continental counterpart

PrintWeek, the UKs leading print title, now has a sister magazine in Germany.

WE Berry in administration

Commercial web printer WE Berry was placed in administration this week, threatening the livelihood of its 150 staff.

Kirklees installs Digimasters in personalisation push

Kirklees County Councils inplant updated its digital print facilities with three Heidelberg Digimaster 9110 machines.

Xerox signs up TPT to target agencies

Turning Point Technologies (TPT) has made its first move into digital printing by signing up as a value-added reseller for Xerox.

Prices push down profits for Communisis

Despite an improvement in trading since the summer low prices will impact Communisis profits in the second half of the year according to a trading update.

LCP to rebrand as LCC

London College of Printing (LCP) will become the London College of Communication next spring a name it says more accurately reflects its current and future areas of specialisation.

Howitt sued for Channel Print proceeds

The Guiton Group is suing Howitt for money it claims is outstanding from the sale of Channel Print in March 2002.

First UK Xerox DocuColor 5252 installed

John E Wright was the first UK firm to install Xeroxs latest production colour machine the DocuColor 5252.

Heidelberg confirms major restructure

Heidelberg has announced sweeping organisational changes that mark the end of its dream of being a total solutions provider to the industry in its own right.

NexPress bound for Cardiff

Illustrated Stationery plans use the NexPress it has ordered to print onto a range of plastics as well as paper.

Strong first day for Digital Print World

Digital Print World got off to an upbeat start this week with a busy first day yesterday (25 November).

KPG receives Queen's Award amid Royal visit

The Duke of Kent visited Kodak Polychrome Graphics Leeds factory this week (24 November) to present the company with the Queens Award for Enterprise for its development of the Electra Excel thermal...

More jobs go at Perivan

Perivan Groups administrators have made further redundancies at the Leigh-on-Sea printer, which trades as Perivan White Dove.