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Tips, RIPs and trade advice

This month: Martin Bailey on file formats for RIPs; Jason Boxall on fixing tip-ons to mailers; and Dominic Clark on how to make the move into trade printing

BPIF hosts briefings at TPE

At stand 320, the BPIF is holding a number of briefings and discussions on a range of topics.

Unite insists union bosses share 'warm friendship' despite infighting rumours

Unite has moved to quell rumours of a break-up amid allegations of infighting at the UK's largest union and the attempts by one of its joint leaders to extend his term.

Polestar Sheffield bags production awards

Polestar Sheffield has triumphed at the recent European Rotogravure Association's annual conference, where it picked up a brace of production awards.

Unions win training mandate on government contracts

An agreement between the unions and the government could see companies having to improve working relations with the unions in order to win government contracts.

Co-op values bring corporate success

Can a business sign up to the socialist ideals of a workers co-operative yet achieve capitalist success? Surely not. Unless you take into account that last year, the UKs highest profile workers co-op,...

Strike threat looms over Royal Mail centre closure

Union officials have warned that postal strikes in Coventry and Warwickshire are looking increasingly inevitable after Royal Mail confirmed it will continue with plans to move its mailing centre from...

Fujifilm to boost plate production with new 75m production line

Fujifilm is to expand the production of its Brillia HD CTP plates with the addition of a new 15bn yen (75m) plate line at its manufacturing facility in Tilburg. Netherlands.