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Rival Colour has become the first firm to use uPrint, a software application developed by Turning Point Technologies to enable robust remote repro workflows over the internet.

Essential Publishing has bought <i>Your Home</i> from NatMags.

Readings Ruscombe Printing has been forced into administrative receivership after suffering poor margins during the last six months.

Swedish pulp producer Sdra Cell is to take 60,000 tonnes of pulp out of the market due to low demand and maintenance-related shutdowns.

Apex Digital Graphics, the UK distributor of Ryobi presses, plans a major push into the B2-plus market with the Ryobi 750 more than a year after the press series was launched in the UK.

Print management has moved on, says Astron chief executive David Mitchell, who has increased its annual turnover to 180m with its acquisition of several of Hays Business Process Outsourcings...

Paul Utting will take up his new role as group managing director of Wyndeham Press Group at the end of September.

Falcon Press in Northampton has made its first move into digital printing with a Heidelberg NexPress 2100.

Independent paper merchant GF Smith has been named as the sole UK stockist for Plike, a new range of text and cover papers.

Howitt is expected to put the final touches to the financing for its Equator gravure project in the next two months.

Pira International hopes to raise more than 7m from the sale of its freehold property to relieve its pension fund deficit.

Paper Management Services (PMS) has signed up Suffolk book printer William Clowes as its latest customer, but is now looking to promote its services to sectors outside book publishing too.

UPM-Kymmene, the worlds third largest paper manufacturer, has told of plans to make 1,200 job cuts by the end of next year.

The majority of Crest Packagings biggest presses have been sold to firms outside the UK.

Creo is to start commercial shipments of its Veris ink-jet proofer, the successor to the Iris range, by October.