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HP has grown its turnover in the first quarter of 2017 by 4% compared with the same period in 2016 – from $12.2bn to $12.7bn (£10.4bn) – and overall profits are also up from $592m to $611m.

Grafenia has issued a second profits warning ahead of its year-end, with soft trading combined with the price war in trade printing impacting the group’s performance.

Route One Print is poised to take delivery of a Polar 137 N Plus guillotine from Heidelberg as it edges closer to its ambition of launching a same-day print service.

Packaging firm Macfarlane has reported increasing group sales and profits in its 2016 year-end preliminary results, despite a slow start to the year in some areas.

Agfa UK boss Joergen Vad is stepping down and will hand over to Eddie Williams in the spring.

The BPIF is urging printers to support its call for the government to review its conditions for the creation of a 'trailblazer' print apprenticeship standard.

Landa Digital Printing (LDP) investor Altana has acquired the Landa Metallography technology that was previewed at Drupa last year; while LDP now expects to make its first Nanography press...

Commercial printer In Print has kicked off a £500,000 investment progamme with the purchase of a Horizon StitchLiner 6000.

Headley Brothers has announced plans to make 85 roles redundant – 45% of the workforce – while a new company that has links to the firm's existing directors has been set up and could be a potential...

Well-known Arsenal fan Piers Morgan, the man so many people seem to love to hate (Overmatter cannot imagine why) seems to have met his match in the face of wildly popular Harry Potter author JK...

Luxury quarterly 10 Magazine was seeking innovation for its Victoria’s Secret issue, which hit the newsstands earlier this month. In stepped Cornwall-based Wyndeham Roche, with whom it had worked...

Vivid Laminating Technologies will showcase four of its Matrix foiling and laminating machines on its stand at PrintWeekLive!, as well as launching a new video book product.

Tech-ni-fold sister company CreaseStream has chosen PrintWeekLive! to launch its entry-level desktop Card Creaser and showcase the new Tri-Creaser Advance technology in its CreaseStream Mini range.

Specialised Canvas Group, the textile printer trading as Flagmakers and Banner Box, has taken delivery of a grand-format EFI Vutek FabriVu 340 fabric printer, in a move that will almost quadruple its...

Precision North managing director Martyn Young has died following an incident involving a forklift truck.