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Awareness programme on bar coding in Jammu
Offset printers from Jammu and Kashmir attended a one day awareness program on bar coding. It was conducted on 5 March 2011 at Hotel Savoy in Jammu.

Best Cover's Bristol facility closes its doors
The Bristol arm of the company formerly known as Best Cover has closed its doors and will enter into liquidation.
Journal Print liquidated at creditors' meeting
Journal Print, the Scunthorpe-based magazine and journal printer that ceased trading last month with the loss of around 45 jobs, has been liquidated.

NGS Print Finishers in administration
It has been confirmed that NGS Print Finishers is in administration, but the East London company remains tight-lipped on its situation.

Chesapeake will struggle to move Bradford staff to Newcastle: Unite
Unite has said that packaging printer Chesapeake will find it difficult to convince its employees at Bradford to move to its Newcastle plant.

3c Finishing cuts flexibility issues with SBL 900WSP install
Sheffield-based 3C Finishing has installed anSBL 900WSP folder gluer to eradicate flexibility issues.

Glasgow's 21 Colour cuts 250,000 in costs with Speedmaster XL 75 investment
Glasgow printer 21 Colour is taking delivery of a brand new Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 75-10-P perfecting press to replace two Manroland machines.
Kodak to refinance $50m senior notes following $250m private offering
Eastman Kodak has borrowed $250m via a private placement of senior secured notes due 2019, $50m of which will be used to refinance a previous loan due to reach maturity in 2013.

NGS Print Finishers status still unclear, as boss sets up new company
Mystery still surrounds the status of NGS Print Finishers, although managing director Neil Sharp is now operating as managing director of new business NGS Finishing Solutions.

Alito Web closed as administrator fails to trade business
The administrator for Northampton printer Alito Web has said that it was unable to trade the business in administration.

February's Ricoh Fantasy Football winner announced
The winner of February's Ricoh-sponsored Fantasy Football League was Terry Exall of Mastercolour.

Killer app: Hand-built monster bunch
Papertoy Monsters is a paper-folding book that was printed by Hong Kong-based Imago and had an initial print run of 25,000 copies. A mix of origami and papertoys, it was published by Workman and was...

Witherbys Lithoflow Printing cuts chemistry usage by 75% following Fujifilm ZAC processor installation
Witherbys Lithoflow Printing has cut its chemistry usage by 75% after installing a Fujifilm FLH-Z II 85 ZAC processor in a bid to boost its environmental credentials.

Kugler-Womako's new launch EcoBinder uses paper as a binding material
Kugler-Womako, a leading manufacturer of paper stationery and print finishing machinery, introduced EcoBinder which uses paper rings as binders.

47 Indian Exhibitors at the London Book Fair 2011
The London Book Fair (LBF) is scheduled for 11 to 13 April, 2011 at Earls Court. A yearly event, the fair is a global platform to decipher the innovations in the publishing market across print, audio,...