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Compose System has become the first firm to sign a licence deal with Founder Electronics PostScript technology.

Czech manufacturer Adast says its business as usual at Ipex.

Ipex sees the worldwide introduction of Drent Goebels new Variable Size Offset Printing (VSOP) press.

Exhibitors were in upbeat mood as they prepared for Ipex 2002 at 9.30am today.

Consolidation of the ink market has continued as Flint Ink announced a combination merger and acquisition agreement with German ink manufac-turer Gebrder Schmidt, just as the doors opened today at...

Heidelberg UK has signed the biggest order yet for NexPresses worldwide, with four machines set to be installed at a brand new operation in Birmingham.

Screen has entered the very-large-format (VLF) platesetter market with the PlateRite Ultima, which it claims features two novel imaging technologies to make it the fastest thermal machine available.

Esko-Graphics (formerly BP-E) has announced its new president and chief executive along with its new brand and a raft of new products.

The UKs first Komori S Lithrone, which is making its world debut at Ipex, will go to Cambridgeshire-based specialist carton printer Beamglow.

Visitors to Xaars Ipex stand will witness the birth of a new era in photographic quality output, the company has claimed, when it demonstrates the first full production greyscale ink-jet printhead.

Polestar chief executive Barry Hibbert expects "a number of business failures" this year as reduced paginations and price competiton hit printers.

Patricia Hewitt, secretary of state for Trade and Industry, has pulled out of her planned visit to Ipex next Wednesday (10 April).

Trinity Mirror has bolstered its CTP capacity by signing up for 10 Krause CTP lines for its Mirror Colour Print (MCP) sites at Watford, Oldham and Cardonald in Glasgow.

Stora Enso is to close its Papyrus paper merchanting division in the UK with the loss of 214 jobs

The organisers of Ipex 2002 hope to beat the 1998 exhibitions 91,662 visitors.