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Openshaw has welcomed the "white knight" buyout of Xeikon by Belgian firm Punch.

Scitex has reported a net loss of 177m ($250.3m) for 2001, but 155m of that was associated with its holding in Creo.

Scitex Digital Print will launch a lower-cost version of its high-speed process colour ink-jet press at Ipex.

EFI has revised its first- and second-quarter estimated results after witnessing a "rapid deterioration in spending in the standalone colour market" in recent weeks.

Encad, the Kodak-owned digital imaging company, has appointed Philip Cullimore as managing director for Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Agfa will add an eight-up external drum 830nm thermal device to its CTP line-up at Ipex.

Marlowe Graphic Services (MGS) has been appointed as distributor for the former Scanview scanner and imagesetter products, and a dealer for the rest of the Barco-Purup-Eskofot (BPE) UK range of...

Creos focus at Ipex will be on its Networked Graphic Production and Value in Print concepts.

Agfa went into the red in 2001 due to falling sales and restructuring charges, largely as a result of its Horizon plan to improve efficiency.

Icon has bought the goodwill and some of the assets of Colourpath after the Chelsea-based repro house was put into voluntary liquidation by managing director Mark Edgley.

The first meeting of the Leicestershire Print Forum attracted nearly 50 representatives from local print firms and business support organisations.

Polestar Colchester has reinstated former shift manager Paul Brotherton after losing an unfair dismissal case at Bury St Edmunds employment tribunal court.

<i>York & County Press </i>has become the first newspaper to enrol printing staff on Print Media Online, the internet-based learning facility developed by Leeds College of Technology.

South Wales firm Hackman Print Group has brought its production facilities and staff under one roof to ease the pressure caused by split-site production.

The management team at Hydro-Dynamic Products plans to buy the company, nearly six years after its listing on the stock market, in a bid to save costs.