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Communisis sets up City setting wing

Communisis has expanded its financial printing activities with a new typesetting operation in the City of London

ET Heron looks at 48pp Roland web

Wyndeham subsidiary ET Heron could be the next UK printer to opt for the 48pp web format

EU extends probe into SCA buy

The EU Commission has extended the investigation into SCAs acquisition of Metsa Tissue for four more months

Canon shows multifunction imageRunner

Canon has introduced the imageRunner brand to the UK, under which the Heidelberg Digimaster will be eventually sold

Polestar closes Digital Techset after contract loss

Polestar Wheatons in Exeter is closing its 50-staff sister firm Digital Techset and opening a small graphic arts studio

Machon lands top Xerox Europe post

Xerox has made Jean-Noel Machon president of Xerox European Solutions Group

GPMU faces tough fight at Yattendon

Anglia GPMU has predicted management opposition to union recognition of 140 staff at the Cambridge Evening News following leafleting outside the papers Milton offices

Litho Supplies takes on extra Imation business

Litho Supplies has sealed a major deal with Imation which will see the firm take on the majority of Imations "traditional" customers

Packaging Federation hits back over DETR paper

The Packaging Federation has issued a forceful response to the DETRs consultation paper on the Recovery and Recycling Targets for Packaging Waste in 2001

Euro expansion for Polestar

Polestar is poised to announce its long-expected acquisition of a European printing business. <br> <br>

Beacon bags award for its Pureprint process

The Beacon Press has won an efficiency award from Water UK and the Environment Agency for its trademarked waterless and alcohol-free printing process, Pureprint.<br> <br>

Burgess kit snapped up at auction

The Print Factory of Watford and Shipley's Herbert Walker & Son picked up some key greetings card printing kit at the Burgess auction, held last week. <br> <br>

Communisis nears end of sell-off plan

The selling spree at Communisis continues after the former John Mansfield Group waved goodbye to Waddington Jaycare and its Milton Keynes envelope business. <br> <br>

Mann, Redfern start new firms

Two separate companies have risen from the demise of Mann Redfern, the Wakefield used machinery dealer which went into receivership earlier this month. <br> <br

Conference hears how to profit from digital print

Printers should learn to be driven not by enthusiasm for technology, but by enthusiasm for their customers, according to CAP Ventures director Elisabeth Bitsch-Christensen. <br> <br>