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Monotype launches cloud-based type service

Monotype has launched a cloud-based type service, Membership by Monotype, that grants access to more than 14,000 typefaces from the Monotype, Linotype, Ascender, Bitstream and ITC libraries.

The host for the 2014 PrintWeek Awards revealed

The PrintWeek team is delighted to reveal that this year's PrintWeek Awards will herald the welcome return of one of the finest comedians and entertainers on the UK circuit today.

Overmatter: plants in space

Printing companies often find it difficult to come up with new and creative ideas for their own marketing materials. Which explains why we’ve seen so many brochures with big pictures of printing...

Killer app: Rider turns to pyromania for Print Club exhibition

Trendy asymmetric haircuts, thick-rimmed glasses and more beards than you can shake a, um, razor blade at – there’s no mistaking a Blisters screen print exhibition.

Stationers’ Company sponsors first UK digital academy

The Stationers’ Company is sponsoring the first Academy in the UK to specialise in digital media as part of its charitable education work.

Kaymar Print acquired by former apprentice

Mark Brindle has completed the acquisition of commercial printer Kaymar Print, the company that first hired him as an apprentice more than 30 years ago, and taken on the role of managing director.

De La Rue share price slumps on profits warning

Banknote and security printer De La Rue has issued a profits warning citing falling margins in its core businesses and slow growth in new business areas, wiping close to 30% off its share price.

KPW Print boosts capacity with fourth Polar guillotine

Irish commercial printer KPW Print has invested around €40,000 (£31,300) in a Polar 92 guillotine to increase its capacity and efficiency.

Baker Goodchild partners with GB Training for NVQ programme

Direct mail fulfilment and print management services provider Baker Goodchild has started working in partnership with GB Training to provide an NVQ qualification programme for eight of its employees.

Harwood King Fine Art in double Canon buy

Fine art screen printer Harwood King Fine Art Studio has invested around £10,000 in Canon iPF 8400 and Canon iPF 815 large-format machines to boost its quality and colour accuracy.

York makes marketing move

York Mailing Group has made its first non-print acquisition as it looks to build a data analytics division.

Web offset firms' 2013 accounts reveal ongoing challenges

Recently filed accounts from two major UK web printers point to ongoing tough trading conditions in the web offset sector, with both reporting falling sales and mounting losses.

ProCo secures Indigo UK first

Sheffield-based marcomms specialist ProCo has installed the UK’s first HP Indigo 7800.

Flexpress buys UK’s first Duplo iSaddle System stitcher

Commercial printer Flexpress has bought the UK’s first Duplo iSaddle System stitcher to increase its productivity.

Quadrant2Design increases capacity with second Seal 62 Pro D laminator

Exhibition stand design and build company Quadrant2Design has invested in a new Seal 62 Pro D laminator to support its growth in the exhibition marketplace.