Newspapers

Agfa Graphics has launched a new high-speed platesetter for the high-volume newspaper market.

Unite has reacted angrily after administrators moved in to Aylesford Newsprint yesterday and immediately closed the mill and made 233 staff redundant.

Commercial and trade printer Normanton Advertiser has invested in a Polar 56 ECO from Heidelberg to replace an older model.

Peter Graham Simpson, the former technical director of Cumbrian News Group, has passed away aged 68.

KBA has launched the widest full-colour digital web press yet, the RotaJet L-Series.

Over 8,300 independent newsagents across the UK and Ireland have been rebranded in a push to sell more printed copies of The Sun and The Times.

London printer FE Burman has held the first of what it hopes will be many client tours of Fleet Street and the St Bride Foundation.

The Sun has marked the start of the World Cup with a massive print campaign involving a special issue of the tabloid being delivered to almost every household in England – requiring a 22m print run.

Manroland Web Systems has become the first worldwide authorised reseller of Kodak’s Prosper inkjet heads to the newspaper industry.

Kodak has this week launched a newspaper version of the Sonora thermal, process-free commercial printing plate that it unveiled at last year's Drupa.

A desire to reduce its environmental impact lead this publisher down an unlikely path.

Guardian News and Media (GNM) is in consultation with staff at its two print facilities after the company announced a proposed restructure.