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Envelope printer First Class Post was fined 2,500 and ordered to pay 1,041 in costs by Leeds magistrates for allowing staff to be lifted nearly six metres in a box perched on a forklift truck.

Print procurement consultancy Blue Buffalo has been awarded the contract to tender the print of UK healthcare giant Bupa, a long-standing client of print management company RR Donnelley GDS.

Monkey Mail, a new direct mail service which includes email, and telemarketing has launched in Killingworth, Newcastle.

Unsecured creditors of the five operating companies of Alderson Print Group (APG) were owed a combined 5.1m at the time of their administration, according to the creditors report.

President Barack Obama's victory over Republican rival Mitt Romney last night marked the end of one of the most combative - and expensive - political races in US history.

HH Global, the Surrey-based print management group, has secured a three-year contract extension from Iceland worth more than 10m.

KBA has made "significant progress" in improving print quality on its RotaJet 76 and has added newspaper printing to the potential applications for the inkjet web press.

Follicly-challenged printers keen to raise money for charity during "Movember" can still take part thanks to JAK Print and Design's free moustache kits.

MailShot Manager, a direct mail customer database, printing and delivery service, was launched by Printed.com on Monday (22 October).

Direct mail printer Geoff Neal Litho has invested around 600,000 in a Heidelberg Anicolor press and finishing machinery to offer short run services.