Print and repro house Altaimage has unveiled a new fixed page e-book application that allows its customers to produce their books and magazines in screen optimised digital format.

New features boost type capabilities and output flexibility of this long-standing DTP app.

Label and tag printer Handy Labels and Tags, part of the Handy Brand group, has invested in a Polar D80 guillotine in order to take on more "intricate" jobs.

Qualvis Print & Packaging has scooped a major prize at the Leicester Mercury Business Awards.

Hampton Printing, the first UK business to achieve the ISO 12647-2 colour control standard through Heidelberg, has renewed its commitment for a further two years.

Rafsec, the UPM-Kymmene subsidiary, is involved in an initiative to eventually replace the barcode with Radio Frequency Identification transponders (RFIDs).

Printable Technologies has acquired DirecTypeR, an image personalisation software company.

UK paper merchants still dealing with Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) face being "named and shamed" by Friends of the Earth (FoE), according to forest campaigner Ed Matthew.

Gavin Watson Printers (GWP) has become the UK's first label production business to attain the ISO 12647-2 colour management certification through Heidelberg.

Xaar will not show its page-wide array ink-jet print head at Ipex although it claims the product is on schedule