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Former MVP Wicks owner David Bell has bought Bradford-based Selective Printing Machinery for an undisclosed amount.

Repro house Trident has bought a 200,000 Lscher XPose! platesetter but installed it 40 miles away at A&R Carton, a Chesterfield-based client.

Basysprint has appointed FC Imaging as a second dealer to sell its UV-Setter computer-to-conventional-plate (CTCP) machines in the UK.

Bristol-based Mail Marketing is one of the first two printers in the UK to install Screens PlateRite 4300 B2 thermal platesetter.

Xerox has launched the 1010, a 101ppm black-and-white digital printer that is significantly cheaper than the DocuTech and rival machines such as Heidelbergs 110ppm Digimaster 9110.

Oc captured the mood at Xplor by launching a new black-and-white product family that tackles the convergence of transactional and one-to-one marketing printed materials.

IBM believes that the opportunities for current high-volume colour digital printing technology have been greatly overestimated at todays costs.

UPM-Kymmenes Caledonian Paper mill is set to undertake a pre-audit assessment in the next four to five months, as part of its preparation for certified production.

ET Heron has secured the print contracts for five of Incisive Medias investment titles, taking the value of the account to 750,000.

RR Donnelley has tied up two huge deals to produce around 60m directories a year in the UK and US.

Brann Direct Communications has teamed up with a number of its preferred suppliers to help launch Volvos XC90 Sports Utility Vehicle.

Ashley Whitworth, the former marketing director of Ipex, is joining Duplo as group marketing manager.

UK managing director Peter Palframan is leaving book group CPI, as it consolidates the two division structure implemented earlier this year.

Heidelberg is to cut 2,200 jobs as it looks to make 130m (E200m) of annual savings.

Xerox nearly doubled profits in its production division in the third quarter.