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Photographic laboratory One Vision Imaging has invested 500,000 in new digital arm Vision Impress, installing an HP Indigo 5600 and a raft of finishing equipment.

B1 and B2 litho printer HSW Print has appointed SFP Group as its administrator after accruing debts of around 850,000.

Business card specialist Full Colour Cards (FCC) has boosted revenue by expanding into Europe.

Litho printer Printworks North is to open a wide format plant in Wakefield following successful diversification into the market.

The Holt review into access to and delivery of apprenticeships in the UK aims to identify the issues that are discouraging businesses - particularly SMEs - from recruiting new blood in this way.

Glasgow printer 21 Colour has invested 130,000 in a Stahlfolder KH 56 as the first step in its finishing revamp.

Fledgling company Dace Print aims to beat competitor's lead times with its latest guillotine, a Perfecta 92TS.

Oxford University Press printer Oxuniprint has cut its outsourcing bills by spending 150,000 in its finishing department.

The government is considering the creation of a 'small business bank' to improve access to funding for companies that want to expand, George Osborne has said.

Whitchurch-based printer John Dollin has invested nearly 1m in a Speedmaster XL 75-5+L and Suprasetter 105 CtP system.

Digital printer Integrated Graphics has been bought by its former sales director Jeffrey Mayho.