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Roland DG has announced an addition to its VersaUV LEF range of desktop, flatbed UV printers for printing directly onto promotional products, such as pens, golf balls, and smartphone covers.

Dantex has been appointed as European distributor for Screen's Truepress Jet L350UV label press, which had its official European launch at Labelexpo this week.

Spin Print Solutions has installed a five-colour Hans Gronhi B3 press and ordered an additional two-colour model as part of a 600,000 litho, digital and finishing kit spend.

A business boom in areas including South America has prompted Meech International to expand its premises in Witney, Oxfordshire.

Print Efficiently hopes to better last year's attendance of nearly 150 companies for the event billed as the "biggest show this side of Ipex", according to one of its main driving forces.

Mailing Technology & Support (MTS) has announced the launch of the Feedline 14, an inline feeder and folder that can be fitted to any third-party inserter.

Ed Miliband will announce plans to freeze small business rates for two years, from April 2015 to April 2017, in his keynote speech at the Labour Party conference this afternoon.

The rapidly expanding and changing wide-format market has prompted Roland DG to launch an introduction to digital print course targeting printers who have bought their first machine.

British Promotional Merchandise Association (BPMA) is amassing feedback from its inaugural Promotional Products Week, which ran from 16-20 September.

Dutch company Hollanders is to unveil a new textile printing machine with a "sensible" price to target fabric-print newcomers looking for eco-friendly options.

The Communication Workers' Union (CWU) has served formal legal notice to Royal Mail of its intention to ballot members for industrial action.

Cross Media 2013 organiser Informa is confident that this year's show will be bigger and better than 2012's inaugural event, with visitor pre-registrations 150% on last year.