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Wallace Print has beefed up capacity with a new Agfa Anapurna inkjet printer, with the business cementing its family roots with a new recruit.

News group Reach has posted half-year results that are ahead of market expectations, but is to review its printing capacity due to uncertainty over contract printing renewals.

Xaar is back on the front foot with a new look and a revamped offering that includes its first move into aqueous printheads.

Webmart has found itself cited alongside global brands such as Nike, Starbucks and Zoom in a Forbes piece about companies “putting people above profits” during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Koenig & Bauer is to shed up to 900 positions as part of cost saving and realignment moves to “safeguard the future” of the venerable industry supplier.

Paddy Crean’s Paragon Group has narrowly missed out on the top spot in the latest ‘Top Track 250’ report published in the Sunday Times.

Helloprint CEO Hans Scheffer has said the business is “back on track” after securing fresh funding and having “fought day and night to survive” over the past few months.

HP, Drupa’s biggest exhibitor, has pulled out of next year’s show as well as from sister event Interpack.

Central Mailing Services (CMS) has completed a £500,000-plus summer investment spree with a fully loaded Sitma polywrapping line.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has been warned that thousands of print businesses could go bust if the government doesn’t bring in targeted relief for the industry.