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Industry finance specialists are moving to provide alternative solutions for printers caught up in a post-Paperlinx credit crunch.

Xerox has launched its latest digital production colour cutsheet press, the iGen5, which features an expanded colour gamut with an optional fifth colour.

A print business which started copying legal documents by hand in 1740 celebrated its 275th anniversary with a party at St Bride Foundation.

Pensord Press expects to boost like-for-like efficiency by between 30% and 40% when it takes delivery of the UK’s first 10-colour Speedmaster SX 102-10P press early next year.

Independent paper merchant Premier Paper Group has become a UK stockist of Lumi papers.

Digital and wide-format printer Rayprographics has upgraded its bindery after investing in a Fastbind Pureva XT combined PUR and EVA perfect binder.

Music magazine NME is set to become a free publication in an attempt to reverse its steadily declining readership, and increase circulation from around 15,000 to 300,000.

PCL Digital has bought two pieces of Duplo equipment to boost its productivity and increase its in-house service offering with the aim to increase turnover by 20 to 30% in the next 12 months.

Natural inks manufacturer Earthinks has launched a range of gravure inks and specialist coatings which it has said will offer improved sustainability and new possibilities to brand owners.

Woodford Litho is poised to go into administration in what is being described as a “managed process”.