Print buying

Readers Digest UK has cut 95 staff from its 120-strong workforce with immediate effect, citing declining book, DVD and CD sales.

Polestar Varnicoat looks set to close after the company kicked off a 30 day consultation at the site on Wednesday (2 January).

Printing.com has signed up the first customers to its white label W3P hosted web-to-print platform, after 10 of its franchisees made the switch thereby dropping the franchise network's own branding.

Informa Exhibitions has highlighted the "real appetite from European PSPs" for print trade shows in a response to Xerox's "regrettable" decision to pull out of Ipex 2014.

Alpha Media Solutions (AMS) has parted ways with Z-Card to produce a rival credit card-sized folded marketing product under the brand name Alpha Cards.

North Plains chief executive James Christopher has outlined his plan to build a hybrid "best in breed" digital asset management (DAM) platform in the wake of the Canadian firm's latest acquisition.

Lenexa, Kansas-based Netpage has unveiled an augmented reality app that lets readers clip, save and share content from printed pages to their mobile device.

Pan-European web-to-print business Pixartprinting has launched a new operator-based file verification service for customers willing to hand over final assessment of documents.

Arctic Paper has shipped more than 400 tonnes of Arctic Silk 130gsm for the production of four different books from HarperCollins based on <i>The Hobbit</i> film trilogy.