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Firefighters have been called out to a fire at Polestar Petty in Leeds after a problem with a Goss Sunday M4000 press.
A group of Paperlinx investors representing around 5% have made a bid to oust the company's current chairman Harry Boon.
Presstek chief executive Jeff Jacobson will join Xerox later this month as president of its Global Graphics Communications division and be succeeded by Fujifilm's former US chief operating officer Stan Freimuth.
Two former employees of St Ives have agreed to pay the PLC £90,000 in damages after they admitted sharing confidential information with two directors at Inspired Thinking Group (ITG).
Printers have slammed the government's "disgraceful" u-turn on tightening the laws on pre-packs, after business minister Ed Davey announced that he had scrapped plans to impose greater legislative controls.
The Printing Industry Pension Scheme (PIPS) has hit out at the government for its poor advice regarding the introduction of pension auto-enrolment.
Readyprint has taken delivery of the UK's first HP Indigo WS4600 digital label press, a move that improves the flexibility and capacity at the Kidderminster-based business.
AGI-Shorewood is looking to strengthen its presence in the high end packaging market by acquiring another company, European chief executive Tony Garnish has confirmed.
GMG has appointed Michael Farkas as marketing director after nearly a decade masterminding the production workflow behind the Ikea catalogue.
Xaar has dismissed claims made by the former staff of its Chinese subsidiary that they had not resigned, as per Xaar's public statement last week, but were instead "on strike".
Stralfors is to cut up to 30 staff at its Dartford operation after announcing plans to migrate away from "commoditised print and direct mail" to added-value digital print.
The future of print-based publishing will be on the agenda at the next meeting of the Digital Ad Lab (DAL), which will take place during the Digital London exhibition at Excel next month.
Leicester-based Spectrum printing has overhauled its prepress and workflow as well as introduced digital printing with a Ricoh Pro C 751 Graphic Arts Edition.
Langley Holdings, a €500m (£415m) turnover engineering group based in Retford, Nottinghamshire, signed a deal late yesterday to buy Manroland's Offenbach production facility as well as more than 40 international sales operations.
Specle, famed for its eponymous online ad spec database, has continued to evolve its service offering with the launch of Specle Studio, a cloud-based tool to enable greater automation of advertising workflows.
Unite has backed the National Audit Office's claim that adult apprenticeship offer a good return for public money.
Paper manufacturer UPM has sold its packaging paper production to Swedish packaging paper company Billerud for €130m (£108m).
API Foils has added nine colours to its MH metallic foil range, taking the number of standard options up to 30.
Finishing equipment supplier Perfect Bindery Solutions has launched the latest ODM sewing machine to the UK.
Unite has said that a number of jobs have been saved at Wyndeham Heron after negotiations with the company.