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Kall Kwik has launched its Digital Business Centres concept, DBC, and opened the first one in York.

A fledgling company wants small printers to use it as an off-the-shelf e-commerce department after launching software to beat packages from more seasoned rivals.

Greenwich-based Data Layout is one of two beta sites for Printanet, the internet-based front-end for the 74 Karat developed by httprint and KBA.

M-real sees no change in market conditions and will continue with production cutbacks. It is difficult to forecast the economic situation in Europe, and there is no certainty of a real upturn in the...

Sappi has relaunched its Royal Roto range of heatset web offset papers following a 14m (E22m) investment at its Nijmegen mill in the Netherlands (<i>PrintWeek</i>, 18 January).

The National Association of Paper Merchants (NAPM) has pooh-poohed Robert Horne Group managing director Toby Marchants call for the paper industry to snub phoenix print firms.

Light is breaking through the economic murk, says UPM-Kymmene, which is hoping for an upturn in Europe and the US to improve on a 41% drop in profits.

Print Design & Graphics (PDG) and Benson Box have picked up the contracts to print cartons for Quorn meals from sausages to pt.

Delta Display, the London-based designer and producer of point-of-purchase and outdoor advertising, has entered into a rolling contract with Buena Vista International (BVI) to promote its films...

Xerox believes that its first-quarter results show that it is on track to return to profitability this year.

Significant excess capacity in all St Ives main markets bar book printing almost halved the groups interim pre-tax profits before exceptional items to 16.6m.

William Gibbons & Sons is understood to have placed an order for yet another Komori System 38 web press.

Thomson Litho is set to shed up to 80 jobs in yet another cull that could mean its workforce has shrunk by nearly a third in just over a year.

Production efficiencies and the need to expand printers traditional relationships with customers were among the themes at Comprint in Lisbon this week.

Westcoast is poised to pick up RESs Hewlett-Packard (HP) DesignJet large-format printer distribution contract in the UK after RES Holdings, RES Distribution and Calcomp European Supplies were placed...