News

Polestar Purnell has lost a major contract after Trinity Mirror decided to close the <i>Mirrors</i> two Saturday magazine supplements.

Heidelberg had a miserable first quarter of its fiscal year without the equipment orders from a major trade show to fall back on.

Although Drupa 2004 wont open its doors for another 10 months, its organisers have already confirmed the dates for the 2008 show.

Midlands Print owner Nicholas Humes has made an approach to buy Hill & Tyler, the Nottingham printer that went into administration a month ago (<i>PrintWeek</i>, 26 June).

DV8 Media has defended its payment record despite a string of printers claiming that they are still owed money by the design firm.

The governments print spending to communicate policy has remained static despite a fall in its overall media spend.

Electronics For Imaging has reported improved sales for the first half of 2003 due to higher demand for its embedded controllers for colour digital printers.

The scope of AdsML, which will be unveiled at Ifra in October, has been released.

Brann Direct Communications in Cirencester has managed the printing of Volvos new 75,000-run style mailing, created to show the importance of design to the firm.

Some Scottish papermakers and printers are contemplating legal action after being hit with huge increases in their annual water bills.

Geliot Hurner Ewen (GHE) is poised to go into voluntary liquidation, claiming that its position is untenable due to the loss of the agency to sell Perfecta guillotines.

Sales director Steve Whitley has taken over as managing director of Herbert Walker & Son (Printers) in West Yorkshire.

Icon Reproductions has installed two new Cromalin Digital AQ2 proofers from DuPont to handle repro for property sections for a range of Cond Nast publications.

Two print-savvy IT and internet experts have set up a company that aims to develop the use of the Scaleable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format for all media, including print.

Polestar Wheatons in Exeter has won an order to print the<i> A-Z atlas of London</i> and could print the directory on an on-going basis.