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Scoring machine specialist Rollem has signed a deal with Tech-ni-Fold to manufacture its Tri-Creaser device, which will be supplied as standard on all Rollem machines

Mail-Well has reacted to the anthrax scare sweeping the US by beginning production of a range of new "safety-oriented" envelopes

The National Printing Skills Centre has secured 500,000 of sponsorship from Ikon Office Solutions

Former Smyth-Horne managing director Mike Biggs has set up new finishing equipment firm Encore

Offset Colour Print hopes to become more efficient and increase sales after spending 2m on a new 10-colour Heidelberg Speedmaster 102

Shares in British Polythene Industries rose 15% to 349.5p last week but fell back to 320p after the group terminated talks over a takeover approach

HighWater has launched a low-cost proofing system based on Hewlett-Packards DesignJet 10PS A3-plus ink-jet printer

Atelier Data Services has appointed former Future Publishing advertising manager Steve Michaels as its new projects manager

CT+Line is distributing a low-cost RIP-once workflow system for Harlequin RIPs

KBA is unlikely to be able to sell the 46 Karat DI press in the UK and the Republic of Ireland due to the nature of Pressteks OEM agreement for the machine

Three former Astron staff have set-up a digital printing company, Destiny Digital Services, in Watford

Chertsey-based wide-format specialist B&P Light Brigade has installed its Inca Digital Eagle 44 flatbed UV-cured ink-jet press and has also signed up a number of new reseller agreements

Huddersfield-based Halcyon DM has invested in two Oc PageStream 500s in response to an increase in demand for its direct mail services

The Office of Fair Trading has issued Xerox with a formal notice that it suspects infringement of the Competition Act 1998, following a complaint from Technologic LSI

European paper and board production for the second quarter of 2001 fell by only 60,000 tonnes to 22.23m tonnes, according to statistics from the Confederation of European Paper Industries