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PrintPricer offers updated services
PrintPricer has launched a new version of its instant online quotation and ordering service, which will enable printers to provide bespoke pricing on their web sites.
Net boost at PaperExchange
PaperExchange.com has strengthened its online paper industry service with a new branding capability.
Low uptake levels for bespoke labels
Digital label printers are not having much success selling the concept of personalised product labels to their big retail customers.
Smurfit board mill saved by buy-out
An MBO at Smurfits Burnley board mill by the chief executive of Smurfit UKs industrial packaging division, Mark Slevin, has saved the site from probable closure and preserved 220 jobs.
Brier Press online service goes live
High Wycombe-based Brier Press has launched a bespoke online order service developed in tandem with PrintPricer
Bible page sells for 28,200 at Christie's auction
Print pundits turned back the pages of history this week when a leaf from the first book ever printed sold at auction for 28,200.
Bailie to head BPIF until Machin replacement is found
BPIF president Roy Bailie will head the organisation until a new chief executive can be recruited.
Colorgraphic takes online plunge with paperX.com
Colorgraphic Direct Response has signed up as a "charter member" at online paper buying site paperX.com.
MY reels in huge carton contract
MY Holdings has followed up its purchase of Low & Bonars European packaging division - now renamed MY Cartons - by landing a massive new pan-European carton contract.
JP to sell off Leeds wet-glue label kit
The lack of a buyer for Jarvis Porters wet-glue label operation in Leeds has forced the company to break up the plant and sell the presses and other machinery off piecemeal.
Harry Potter book sweeps the board
The latest Harry Potter book by author JK Rowling almost left publisher Bloomsbury in a "muggle" when it had to order a reprint of 200,000 copies on top of the initial 1m run - before the book even...
Printing glitch forces withdrawal of 21bn in euros
A batch of 325m euro banknotes printed in Germany will not be put into circulation after the European Central Bank (ECB) discovered "a slight deviation in visual appearance" when compared to notes...
Jourdans opens London design studio
Jourdans, the Exeter-based packaging specialist, has opened its first design studio in Clerkenwell, London. The company specialises in limited edition rigid packaging for CDs.
Controversy over PaperX.com claim
A spat has broken out in the paper dotcom world following comments made at the official launch of PaperX.com by chief executive Lars-ke Helgesson.
Goodhead wins Big Issue print contract
The Big Issue is going computer-to-plate for the first time as part of its revamp and change of printer.