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Adobe CPSI to add PDF 1.4 next year

Workflow developers hope to be using the latest version of Adobes CPSI RIP technology to support PDF 1.4 functions, including transparencies, by early next year

Gretag Pro defies main group losses

Gretags professional imaging division proved to be its only bright spot as the Swiss group announced plummeting sales and a heavy loss for the first six months of 2001

HP earnings for Q3 plummet

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has reported a dramatic fall in net earnings for the third quarter due to the global economic downturn

Aspire installs Roland Hi-Fi for short-run Hexachrome

Aspire Print and Repro, the Hertfordshire-based firm that specialises in Hexachrome printing, has installed a Roland Hi-Fi Jet Pro FJ-500 to produce six-colour short-run large-format digital print

International Paper approached for Scottish mill

International Paper is being touted as one of the firms lined up to run the 418m Scottish pulp mill project

Weyerhaeuser continues hunt for Willamette

The 4.8bn battle for Willamette continues, with Weyerhaeuser extending its offer for all of Willamettes outstanding stock until midnight on 14 September

Lyonnais predicts 25% pulp price fall

UPM-Kymmenes acquisition of Haindl is set to fail, and the price of pulp could fall by a further 25% in 2002

Stora approves 317m overhaul at Langerbrugge

Stora Ensos board has approved a 317m asset improvement programme for its Langerbrugge mill in Belgium

Ekman UK wins agency deal for Fabriano paper

Ekman UK has become the exclusive UK and Eire sales agent for Italian paper producer Fabriano

PaperCom to issue green energy plan

PaperCom Europe will issue a report in the coming months outlining the next step for the sustainability blueprint for the industry

Alimac's 5m deal for GE capital arm

Print outsourcing specialist Alistair McIntosh has secured a 5m three-year contract with international conglomerate GE Capital GCF to supply its UK print marketing requirements

CCS secures ITNET supply job

CCS Potts, the Cardiff arm of Thomas Potts, has won a three-year, 2.25m print management contract to supply business stationery and consumables to ITNETs national print centre in Birmingham

BPS wins Norwich programme

BPS Print has secured a three-year 500,000 contract with Norwich City Football Club to produce its matchday programme

Bath secures top religious job

The Bath Press has secured a three-year 2m contract to print the Good News Bible, which is published jointly by the Bible Society and HarperCollins

Natural Pulping finds investors

Natural Pulping has received its first injection of capital from an industrial company ahead of schedule