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Oxfordshire commercial printer KMS Litho has brought lamination in-house after investing in a B2+ Foliant Mercury 530SF laminator with Foliant’s multi-functional Inprinting Unit.

CMYUK has confirmed a deal to become the sole UK and Ireland distributor of EFI’s family of Vutek FabriVu dye-sublimation printers, marking its first venture into dye-sub technology.

Kodak has released its full-year and Q4 2017 earnings, posting $94m in net earnings for the year, but with revenue down 7% to $1.5bn (£1.1bn), from $1.64bn in 2016.

Japanese post-press equipment manufacturer Duplo Corporation has bought Duplo International, parent of Duplo UK and Duplo France and master distributor for the Europe, Middle East, Africa & Russia...

BCQ Group has bought Kidlington-based printer Hunts, taking on all of its staff and clients in a bid to expand the reach of both brands.

Henry Stone has gone into administration just four months after the collapse of its ill-fated venture into web offset at Stones Ashford, and will be wound down immediately.

Konica Minolta Marketing Services has restructured its senior management to integrate the teams from acquisitions Charterhouse PM, Indicia and Ergo.

UK print companies are leading the charge in the shortlist for the 2018 Fespa Awards.

M Partners has been named as a gold award winner in two categories in the 12th annual Stevie Awards for Sales and Customer Service, presented in Las Vegas at the end of February.

Adare International was one of the first UK print companies to reveal its gender pay gap data, with female employees earning 13.6% less on average (median) than male employees.

Baroness Dean, a Labour peer and the first woman to lead a major trade union, has died aged 74.

The Stationers' Company and the BPIF have bolstered their commitment to training the next generation of print professionals with the renewal of the Stationers' bursary programme and the introduction...

Start-up signage and print company Bow Design has set its long-term sights on becoming one of the biggest signage printers in Wales after taking on a new TrueVis VG-640 wide-format printer-cutter.

Chancellor Philip Hammond has pledged to look at ways to combat the late payment culture impacting SMEs as part of his Spring Statement.

Adare Secure Essential Communications (SEC) has now gone live with the UK’s first Hunkeler CS8 cross-cutter, signalling a 20% increase in speed upon its predecessor.