Chancellor George Osborne has announced plans to introduce a national ‘living wage’ in his Emergency Budget speech earlier today (8 July).

Iconic poster company Athena has re-launched – as a web-to-print operation printing high-quality licensed album art from a facility in York.

News UK has renewed major contracts to print both the London Evening Standard and Financial Times newspapers.

The taskforce established by the Scottish government in the wake of the Tullis Russell Papermakers administration has agreed an action plan to spend the £6m pledged in state assistance.

Ultimatum Engineering has signed an agreement to sell Bordeaux Digital PrintInk’s UV and UV LED inks in the UK.

Industry finance specialists are moving to provide alternative solutions for printers caught up in a post-Paperlinx credit crunch.

Xerox has launched its latest digital production colour cutsheet press, the iGen5, which features an expanded colour gamut with an optional fifth colour.

A print business which started copying legal documents by hand in 1740 celebrated its 275th anniversary with a party at St Bride Foundation.

Pensord Press expects to boost like-for-like efficiency by between 30% and 40% when it takes delivery of the UK’s first 10-colour Speedmaster SX 102-10P press early next year.

Independent paper merchant Premier Paper Group has become a UK stockist of Lumi papers.

Digital and wide-format printer Rayprographics has upgraded its bindery after investing in a Fastbind Pureva XT combined PUR and EVA perfect binder.

BPIF president Gerald White has urged all the federation’s 1,300 members to take on “at least one” new apprentice in order to plug the industry’s looming skills gap.