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X-Rite has launched the DTP 34, a low-cost densitometer for calibrating digital copiers and printers

Macfarlane Group has sold its 2.8m remaining shares in British Polythene Industries (BPI) for a 6.5m fee following the failure of its attempted hostile takeover

Heidelberg first-quarter sales rose from last year, but orders have decreased compared with its bumper Drupa 2000

Aldershot-based Bridge Offset has invested 1.8m in new equipment including a second-generation platesetter

Former directors of north Londons doomed Colophon Design & Print are thought to be sounding out the market for potential work from their former client portfolio

Heidelberg has unveiled plans to support printing colleges by helping them to buy or lease equipment

The GPMU has welcomed the certification officers refusal to grant News Internationals internal union, News International Staff Association (NISA), a certificate of independence

Former Photobition director Bob Bushby says he now has enough support to call an EGM if necessary

Printpotato.com has bought TPC Telecoms in a major change of direction and has put its online print website up for sale

Two Rotherham printers are giving a web press its UK debut

Up to 36 staff are set to lose their jobs at Polestar Greaves after the firm said it was decommissioning one of its two KBA TR4 gravure presses

Omnia Books near Glasgow is to shed 65 jobs after ditching colour book production

PIMS, the direct marketing and digital printing specialist, has bought Canada-based CCN Newswire and Matthews Media Services in a 6m deal

British manufacturing is officially in a recession, but the GPMU and BPIF are still in opposing camps when it comes to offering a solution to manufacturings ills

Grafitec division Grafitec Management Service has been enlisted to sell the plant and machinery of Jarvis Porters creative packaging operation