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UK gets Euro preview of Screen's TruePress 744

UK printers will be able to get an early look at the new 4pp Screen TruePress 744, when the company's UK facility takes delivery of a test machine in the autumn

Spectrum Flair in 400k CTP move

Spectrum Flair Group has made the move to CTP as part of a 400,000 revamp of its repro facilities

Stora poised to sell off Newton Kyme's assets

Stora Enso is talking to possible buyers about the sale of the assets at its Newton Kyme mill in Yorkshire

Few job losses at Tactica base

Initial negotiations after Astron's merger with Tactica have led to nine staff at Tactica's Norwich headquarters taking redundancy

Conway: printers unable to deliver

Wavelength's John Conway has responded to last week's article about his publishing activities by slamming UK magazine printers as being "unable to deliver consistently good quality on time"

WebMart unveils e-bazaar for web offset buyers

WebMart has launched an online trading system - www.buyweboffset.com - which it claims will save printers hundreds of pounds per new account and sell their spare capacity

Impac Europe to become AGI

Westvaco is renaming the multimedia packaging companies it acquired last year as AGI Media Packaging from 1 February

Multicolour trials for Yellow Pages

Yellow Pages is holding trials with full-colour directories, which, if successful, would use RR Donnelley's colour capacity at its new 37m premises at Knaresborough

Colombier offers paper online

Colombier has launched Colmart.com, an online paper-buying marketplace backed by the company's converting capability

Bids to buy Donisde intensify

The administrative receiver for Donside Paper Company is talking to "seven or eight interested parties" about the possible sale of the business

CutStar debut for Excel Print

Excel Print is set to install the UK's first Heidelberg CutStar sheeter, an add-on for its new Speedmaster 102 that allows it to use paper reels

Komori installs web in showroom

Komori is installing a four-unit System 38SII web in its Leeds showroom, making it the only press manufacturer with a demonstration web in the country.

Downey tested by Accenture orders

Downey & Co has had to cope with a massively increased workload on its copper plate printing set-up after Andersen Consulting changed its name.

Lowe unveils Press Systems' first product range

Former KBA UK managing director Kelvin Lowe has revealed the first products to be available through his new venture, Press Systems.

Masterpiece hit by loss of Smallwood and West

Masterpiece, the trading name of Graphic Facilities (Advertising), has been rocked by the sacking of its managing director and the resignation of its sales director.