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Proofing RIP specialist Best has developed a system for producing colour managed halftone proofs on Hewlett-Packard ink-jet printers

The print market will not have been given much ground for optimism by the CBIs June survey of industrial trends

WAM!NET is laying off half its European staff as part of a restructuring plan that it hopes will see it become profitable by the end of the year

Buhrmann has forecast a bleak outlook for the rest of the year and has said it will further assess its paper merchanting and office products businesses once second quarter results are known

The Citys unfavourable perception of prints future prospects held back St Ives in the <i>Sunday Business</i> list of Britains top companies for shareholder value

David Instance has lost its appeal against last years High Court triumph by Denny Bros Printing regarding invalid patents, and could now face costs of up to 500,000

De La Rue in Gateshead has become the first printer in a non-euro-using country to print euro banknotes

Printmountain gained "99% approval" for its Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) proposal at a meeting of creditors and shareholders last week

Thomas Potts has spun off its book production services division, Cambridge Pub-lishing Management (CPM), to operate as an independent subsidiary

KBA is confident it will attract more investment for research when it moves up a listing division on the German Stock Exchange

Polestar is making 56 staff redundant at East Kilbride as it removes two 17-year-old KBA S60 Compacta presses

Administrators from Hacker Young were appointed at Londons Keldia Printing yesterday afternoon (28 June)

Mystery surrounds the demise of Syon Print after it announced it had gone into voluntary liquidation

Diamond Printed Products aims to boost its turnover by 1m after launching a new digital print system

International Paper (IP) has started a private placement with institutional investors to raise funds of around 710m ($1bn), with the issuing of Zero Coupon Convertible Debentures