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To coincide with the British Book and Design Awards, the BPIF is to hold a conference looking at the rapid changes facing the UK book market, specifically the impact of global market supply chains.

Two former adland bosses, Steve Hobbs and Andy Huntley, have joined forces with fellow repro veteran Dean Baker to launch a pre-media start-up company called Zone.

Compose Systems next generation Visual Proof soft proofing tool had its debut at Labelexpo last week.

Alwan Colour Expertise has teamed up with Gradual Software to integrate its preflighting, standardisation and CMYK Optimizer colour technology within Graduals Switch product line.

Printers have reacted angrily to claims in a national newspaper that they are using migrants to drive down the pay and conditions of permanent British workers.

If there are two things printers notoriously lack, and dont often do anything to improve, its their management and marketing skills. Fortunately for HPM Creative Solutions (or Hillprint as it used to...

You have got to spend money to make money, and even in this uncertain climate, printers can still get the finance to invest if they shop around.

St Ives is understood to be on the verge of signing its first big-ticket print management contract after it emerged as the front-runner in Royal Mails huge print tender.

Team Impression, the Leeds-based printer, is planning expansion through acquisition and kit investment after floating on the Plus Markets stock exchange.

Hundreds of print and paper workers are expected to descend on Bournemouth this Sunday to support greater employment rights.

Envirowise is to run a web seminar on 11 October offering free guidance on cleaner packaging design.

Bertelsmann, the German media group, is pushing for a cost-cutting programme at its gravure printing arm Prinovis, according to press reports.