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Electronics For Imaging has reported improved sales for the first half of 2003 due to higher demand for its embedded controllers for colour digital printers.

The scope of AdsML, which will be unveiled at Ifra in October, has been released.

Brann Direct Communications in Cirencester has managed the printing of Volvos new 75,000-run style mailing, created to show the importance of design to the firm.

Some Scottish papermakers and printers are contemplating legal action after being hit with huge increases in their annual water bills.

Geliot Hurner Ewen (GHE) is poised to go into voluntary liquidation, claiming that its position is untenable due to the loss of the agency to sell Perfecta guillotines.

Sales director Steve Whitley has taken over as managing director of Herbert Walker & Son (Printers) in West Yorkshire.

Icon Reproductions has installed two new Cromalin Digital AQ2 proofers from DuPont to handle repro for property sections for a range of Cond Nast publications.

Two print-savvy IT and internet experts have set up a company that aims to develop the use of the Scaleable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format for all media, including print.

Polestar Wheatons in Exeter has won an order to print the<i> A-Z atlas of London</i> and could print the directory on an on-going basis.

Rival Colour has become the first firm to use uPrint, a software application developed by Turning Point Technologies to enable robust remote repro workflows over the internet.

Essential Publishing has bought <i>Your Home</i> from NatMags.

Readings Ruscombe Printing has been forced into administrative receivership after suffering poor margins during the last six months.

Swedish pulp producer Sdra Cell is to take 60,000 tonnes of pulp out of the market due to low demand and maintenance-related shutdowns.

Apex Digital Graphics, the UK distributor of Ryobi presses, plans a major push into the B2-plus market with the Ryobi 750 more than a year after the press series was launched in the UK.

Print management has moved on, says Astron chief executive David Mitchell, who has increased its annual turnover to 180m with its acquisition of several of Hays Business Process Outsourcings...