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Mimaki has appointed Hisayuki Kobayashi as its new president following the retirement of its current head Mikio Noguchi in June.

Chinese B3 press manufacturer Hans Gronhi has acquired Japanese rival Shinohara, which filed for bankruptcy protection at the beginning of the year.

A panel of leading international publishers will discuss the changing face of the Indian book printing industry at the "Indian Noon" conference at next week's London Book Fair.

Hamillroad Software is giving away 2,000 copies of a sample book that demonstrates the real world impact of its revolutionary Auraia-II digitally modulated (DM) screening technology.

Danaher Corporation has made a cash offer for X-Rite, owner of design industry color provider Pantone, with the deal for the colour management specialist broadly welcomed by shareholders and senior...

Durst has unveiled a new series of UV printers, the P10, which can produce "fine art" quality output at resolutions up to 1,000dpi.

EFI will unveil a new digital press that it believes can replace wide-format screen printing at Drupa (Hall 05, stand C01).

Offset press manufacturers Miyakoshi and Ryobi have joined forces to develop an 8,000sph B2 digital press, which they are to demonstrate as a prototype at Drupa 2012 (Hall 9, Stand A04).

John Crosfield, founder of Crosfield Electronics and pioneer of automatic register control and colour scanning technologies for the print industry, has passed away aged 96.

HP has moved to reassure printers of its ongoing commitment to the commercial print sector following yesterday's announcement of the merger of its commercial print and PC divisions.

Inkjet manufacturer Xaar has said that growth in the ceramic decoration sector, along with successful capacity expansion at its Huntingdon facility, contributed to a 26% increase in sales during 2011.

Komori has made its foray into the digital print production market after signing a global sales agreement with digital manufacturer Konica Minolta.