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Northprint exhibitors have said they are being offered the chance of a reimbursement of their deposits if they switch to rival show Print UK.

IPC has extended the contract for its Southbank titles with St Ives for a further three years.

SJP (UK), the self-adhesive label producer, has been placed into administration with the loss of 39 jobs at its St Neots operation.

Johnston Press has entered a 30-day consultation for the closure of its Harrogate printing plant, which could result in the loss of 40 jobs.

Some big industry names have emerged as possible suitors to buy City and fine art group Hyway Printing Services out of administration.

Patrick Math, the former sales director of Aquaprint, which merged with fellow Wyndeham company Print Direct last year, has set up Print 4 DM to target the financial and charity sectors.

Carlton Barclay has been placed into liquidation, with the loss of the remaining 100 jobs, after a deal to buy the company out of administrative receivership fell through.

Printing of the new 5 banknote has resumed after the Bank of England identified the problem that caused serial numbers to rub off (<i>PrintWeek</i>, 31 May).

Global Graphics Software has signed Positive Focus as its main UK distribution partner for its Jaws PDF product (<i>PrintWeek</i>, 15 February).

Agfa has delivered more than 150 of its 4pp Palladio violet-laser platesetters since it began shipping in January.

Net Integration Technologies has appointed Eurographic Solutions to handle distribution of its Net Integrator Super Server product, including the new EQUE file transfer system.

The newly formed Newspaper Marketing Agency (NMA) could consider changes to the gatekeeper repro companies, through which artwork passes to national papers.

Belfasts Aston Digital Print has placed a reserve order for a Xerox DocuColor iGen3 and is due to take delivery of one of the UKs very first machines next year.

HP Indigo has sold two of its 1000 digital presses into the UK market to Redlin Print Management in Essex and Redditch-based SP Group.

Printcafe chief executive Marc Olin says the slump in the firms share price since its IPO last month (<i>PrintWeek</i>, 12 July) is "primarily a symptom of stock market conditions".