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Pre-media specialist PHMedia has scooped the MetalFX Prepress Company of the Year award for the second year running.

Williams Lea Tag owner Deutsche Post DHL is understood to have completed a number of key steps needed to facilitate the sale of the business.

Ixpressia has launched a standalone variable-data authoring tool aimed at the wide-format print market.

Three developers of image personalisation and variable data software, DirectSmile, XMPie and DirecType, have announced developments and upgrades to their ranges.

The value of the personalised gift market is expected to reach $31bn (£24bn) by 2021 – up 55% from 2016, at least according to new research commissioned by HP.

Hexcite Group has been launched as the new £60m-turnover unifying brand identity of Gardners, Kesslers and SFD, which were recently brought together in a series of acquisitions.

Canon Europe and Pageflex, a division of software developer Bitstream, have struck a pan-European deal to give Canon customers access to a range of personalisation and web-to-print software.

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Big-name speakers in print and marketing have confirmed they will talk at Cross Media 2013, which features more than 50 seminars in five theatres for the two-day event.