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Documedia has appointed administrative receivers and made 22 staff redundant with the closure of its London office after experiencing on-going cashflow problems

Taylor Bloxham has become the first Midlands printer to install a 12-colour B1 Heidelberg Speedmaster

Photobition looks set to announce a programme of debt-restructuring, to convert at least 50m of its 100m debt into equity

Redwood Publishing production director Niki Webb has been promoted to senior account director

Goss Graphic Systems has won final court approval for its 63m debtor-in-possession lending facility, and has confirmed 70m of new orders

The volume of direct mail sent in the UK has doubled in the last 10 years, according to findings published by the Direct Mail Information Service

A 1m-long time capsule buried underneath the Thomas Forman printing works in Nottingham has been unearthed after 38 years

The Newspaper Society aims to broaden AdFasts appeal to smaller advertisers by incorporating AdWebs Ad2Press software into it

Kodak Polychrome Graphics has launched a new imagesetting film because it believes there is still a strong market for conventional film and plate

Fujifilm Graphic Systems says it has increased CTP consumables revenue by over 200% for the first six months of 2001 compared to last year

Agfa has reported one of its most successful ever Ifra exhibitions, taking orders for 21 Polaris platesetters, including five violet-based Polaris systems

Imation has exited graphic arts with the sale of its Matchprint colour proofing and related business to Kodak Polychrome Graphics

Two new products from Compose will provide composite PDF and halftone proofing up to 175lpi

Buckleys in Stockport has brought all its repro work in-house and installed ArtPro software

Peter Vincent, the head of graphic arts marketing for Xerox UK and its Ipex project manager, is leaving the company next month