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Heidelberg, MAN Roland and KBA suggest in their latest results that industry prospects are improving, but all continue to struggle with large losses.

Pitney Bowes Management Services (PBMS) has adopted Dataform Business Support Services online ordering and management technology.

The Print Education Forum (PEF) is inviting applications for its Access to Skills pilot project, which provides heavily subsidised qualifications and training for the over 25s.

Iain Duncan Smith and Michael Howard seem on friendly terms as they visit Blackpool printer Supreme during the Conservatives party conference in the town in October, days before Duncan Smith was...

Inkfish Services hopes to double if not triple turnover within three years after starting work on a new mailing house.

Pindar, the Scarborough-based catalogue specialist, is on the hunt for equipment to improve the automation of its new bindery after ordering two Muller Martini PrimaPlus stitchers.

Sappi is to increase the prices of woodfree and mechanical coated web grades from 1 January 2004.

TripleArcs 40m bid to buy Access Plus has been accepted and the enlarged group should be operating as one from tomorrow (19 November).

Garnett Dickinsons digital arm, Digitec, will start live production on its new KBA 46 Karat waterless direct-imaging press next month.

MAN Roland GB hopes to help printers become more environmentally conscious, improve quality and reduce costs after signing an agreement with German manufacturer UniSensor to supply and promote its...

Northern & Shell chairman Richard Desmond is keeping a keen eye out for any signs that the Telegraph Groups parent, Hollinger, may be forced to sell assets.

Xerox has offered to pay more than 140m ($239m) to retired staff following the three-year court case into incorrectly calculated lump-sum retirement payments.

MetalFX, the metallic printing technology company, won the Innovation of the Year award at the National Business Awards 2003.

Fujifilm Graphic Systems has added new tools to its Rampage workflow and says its open offering gives printers more freedom than others on the market.

KBA is confident about its prospects for next year after reporting its first double-digit increase in orders in two and a half years.