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The print-on-demand industry could be set for a boost after a $125m (78.7m) settlement was announced between Google and the Authors Guild with the Association of American Publishers (AAP), opening up...

X-Rite has completed a $155m (94m) capital raise after shareholders approved the plans at a meeting in Chicago yesterday.

The Christian Science Monitor looks set to become the first national daily newspaper to abandon print, announcing that it would switch to a purely online edition in April 2009.

Management Information Systems (MIS) have been named the most critical technology for the third consecutive year at the Chicago-based print trade show Graph Expo.

Ingram Digital has signed a global agreement with Penguin Group to host and distribute the publisher's e-book range.

Miniature finisher Clinical Print Finishing has questioned why more printers and finishers did not exhibit at this year's Total Print! Expo (TPE).

UK interest rates have been cut by 0.5% as part of an international effort to ease the pressure on liquidity in the international money markets.

Presstek has announced its line-up for this month's Graph Expo show, where it plans to showcase a raft of chemistry-free pre-press kit.

Muller Martini is celebrating the sale of its 100th Bolero binder, only months after recording the 300th sale from its flagship Corona range.

Earthtone, the UK-based software developer, has revealed that US print franchise owner ICED will be the initial launch partner for its eponymous web-to-print system.

EFI has claimed an important victory in the defence of a patent lawsuit filed against its Vutek inkjet technology by Leggett & Platt (L&P).

Quark will unveil a raft of upgrades to its products, coinciding with next month's launch of rival software developer Adobe's Creative Suite 4 (CS4).