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Adobe has announced the first big upgrade to its PostScript RIP since the launch of version three in 1997.

Support for ISDN has been assured as the market jostles to fill the void left by the closure of 4Sight and problems at Hermstedt UK.

The BPIF has welcomed new government proposals to make funding for growth more accessible for SMEs.

Access Plus, the Bristol-based print management company, says negotiations are continuing with an unnamed suitor following an approach to buy the firm in May (<i>PrintWeek</i>, 2 May).

KBA is closing in on MAN Roland in the sheetfed arena.

LPC Group is threatening to scrap a 22m investment plan for Kilbagie Recycled Fibres in Alloa and switch production to Spain unless it receives 7m in government grants.

Cantate has bought the goodwill of fellow south London company SJ Heady and Co, better known as Postal Publicity Press (PPP), from liquidator Mark Goldstein & Associates.

3M has supplied Europes largest order of Post-it notes for BTs new directory enquiries number.

Southernprint managing director Stephen Clark is absolutely confident that the Poole web offset printer has nothing to fear from concerns about its emissions.

The GPMU suspended Tuesdays industrial action at Trinity Mirrors administrative site in Glasgow after talks with management from the Daily Record and Sunday Mail.

A software tool that repurposes printed magazines on the internet is the first product to be sold by Applecart, an offshoot of London pre-press firm Colour Systems.

Seven apprentices at Technoprint in Leeds have been awarded grade As in a AVCE Manufacturing written exam taught by managing director Mark Snee.

ACAS has offered help to broker a settlement at Communisis-owned Waddington Labels in Gateshead, where industrial action began this week.

BemroseBooth has secured a five-year multi-million-pound contract to produce all machine-issued tickets for National Car Parks (NCP).

Printers of celebrity gossip magazines such as <i>Heat</i> and <i>Glamour</i> have the most to smile about, the latest ABC circulation figures find.