News

Confederation of Paper Industries (CEPI) member countries are estimated to have produced an all-time record of over 90m tonnes of paper and board, according to preliminary statistics for 2000

Holmen Paper chief financial officer Lennart Svensson is to leave the company with effect from 30 June to pursue other activities

One of the UKs biggest magazine printing contracts has been lost to the continent, dealing a further blow to Polestar in the process

Xerox is to launch DigiFlow, a complete workflow for producing variable data print

Heidelberg has turned its back on sprayable polymer (SP) as the future of on-press imaging

Surrey & Berkshire Newspapers, part of The Guardian Media Group, has installed Agfas IntelliNet Newsflow and IntelliTune image processing software, prior to a dual Polaris CTP installation

Jefferson Smurfit has posted its second-best ever year of earnings and increased its pre-tax profit after exceptional items by 68%

A row has broken out between Artwork Systems and MacPeople over the latters ArtPro software training course

Heidelberg has launched its new devolved consumables service in the UK, which it hopes will make it one of the largest suppliers of pressroom consumables within the next three years

Litho Supplies has appointed Bernard Clark as non-executive director in response to shareholders demands

Print chain Presto Print (PPL) is to trial the PrintCost MIS and may roll it out across its 18 branches

HighWater has launched a software tool for controlling dot gain that simplifies the process of characterising and calibrating presses

The Guardian is being tested by Dutch firm Publishers Electronic Printing Concept Worldwide (PEPC) on its newspaper print-on-demand system and could go live in a matter of weeks

Future Network is to close five of its UK-based technology titles and suspend publication of a further three with the loss of 90 jobs

Strong sales of the UltraStream 2000 contributed to a profitable fourth quarter with record revenues for Indigo