Oki announces raft of UK appointments
Oki Systems has bolstered its UK sales team with seven new sales staff, who have joined from rivals including Brother, Canon, Epson and HP.

Alpha Media launches Alpha Cards as Z-Card contract ends
Alpha Media Solutions (AMS) has parted ways with Z-Card to produce a rival credit card-sized folded marketing product under the brand name Alpha Cards.

Ipex 2014 hit with second major digital withdrawal
Next year's Ipex exhibition has suffered the withdrawal of a second major digital press manufacturer.
Fuji Xerox may miss 2013/14 sales target
Fuji Xerox may miss its revenue target for the financial year starting on 1 April 2013, according to president Tadahito Yamamoto.

Printer's devil: it's in the detail
Contributing editor Jo Francis muses on the latest goings on in the print industry.
Top Ten of 2012: Finance (6)
A continued source of strife for the print industry and confusion for policy-makers, who have been failing in their efforts to improve lending to SMEs ever since the Credit Crunch.

Top Ten of 2012
The past year has seen some incredible events unfold across the print industry, not just in the UK but around the world, and this is our round up of the 10 biggest stories to have broken in 2012,...
Top Ten of 2012: Employment (8)
May of 2012 saw the belated publication of the government-commissioned Beecroft report, part of a five-year UK employment law review, outlining 20 proposals aimed at simplifying employment regulations...
Top Ten of 2012: Goodhead Group (2)
A story that was at least a decade in the making, the saga of the UK web offset sector entered what must surely be its concluding chapter this year with the pre-pack sale of one of the Big Three UK...

Wide Format: A 2012 retrospective
Like all digital sectors, the pace of development in wide format is sometimes hard to keep up with and with Fespa in February followed by Drupa in May, 2012 was a year of launches, debuts and...

Digital: A 2012 retrospective
2012 was for many the year that digital print technology came of age and began to challenge offset across the board and not just on short run, fast turnaround jobs.

New Year predictions - St Ives' Patrick Martell
Patrick Martell, chief executive, St Ives