Newsarchive October 2009

01.10 BLP eyes £2m of new work after Heidelberg investment »
01.10 East Kent Foiling brings lamination in-house to offer 'whole' post-press package »
01.10 Redlin Print secures ISO 14001 accreditation »
01.10 Lefa Print boosts web-to-print offering with first UK Xerox 7002 »
01.10 Vio relaunches Certified Soft Proofing software as part of Adsend »
01.10 Fresh Media Group rebrands with group companies under FMG name »
01.10 Newly developed halftone flexo dot makes gradations 'like offset litho' »
01.10 Former Crosland director launches own business »
01.10 Mirror Finish upgrades finishing kit with Steinemann purchase »
01.10 Sherwood Press takes staff and work from Shore to Shore »
01.10 HP launches plastic recycling scheme for wide-format printers »
01.10 Limpet Labels moves into digital with Xeikon 3000 investment »
01.10 HP takes on eco-solvent market with Designjet L25500 latex ink printer »
02.10 Doveton improves speed of guillotine department »
02.10 Colour wide-format and transpromo are bright spots in Océ Q3 results »
02.10 FSB calls for regulation moratorium to create jobs »
02.10 Allied Bakeries moves multimillion-pound UK packaging deal »
02.10 Kyocera lays claim to world's fastest inkjet printhead »
02.10 Ikon makes major Duplo investment to handle new contract »
02.10 Character Print & Design set for liquidation »
02.10 Polestar in talks with staff over redundancies »
02.10 Employers retain right to force retirement at 65 »
02.10 Biking up Britain - doing Beefy's trip in reverse »
02.10 Reader Reaction: Could belonging to a consortium bring printers benefits? »
02.10 Adobe to host 'landmark' PDF meeting »
02.10 Evening Standard to become a freesheet »
05.10 Printing Plus cuts turnaround times with Presstek investment »
05.10 Myvouchercodes bucks online trend to produce printed booklet »
05.10 CPI Mackays breaks production record »
05.10 Outdoor Partners moves to CTP with Agfa Avalon VLF install »
05.10 Prinovis Liverpool boosts environmental credentials with ISO 14001 »
05.10 Ricoh Fantasy Football League September winner announced »
05.10 W-Print sets up and takes 21 Shore to Shore employees »
05.10 More than 100 jobs at risk as Johnston Press plans Scottish plant closure »
05.10 Polestar signs strategic alliance with US-based ECM »
05.10 TJ International installs Europe's first Océ VarioPrint 6320 Ultra »
05.10 Inc Direct records 21% growth in year-on-year sales »
06.10 Tech8 to offer third-party service and warranty to wide-format printers »
06.10 Schawk appoints Wright to spearhead digital and mobile growth »
06.10 Brazilian pulp exports up, WRQ shows »
06.10 Fespa adds Sri Lanka and Nepal to growing Asia-Pacific footprint »
06.10 Times Square teaser for consumer-focused large-format firm CanvasPop »
06.10 Inca launches personalisation pre-press package »
06.10 Shiraz RIPs get Adobe core to aid PDF processing »
07.10 Polestar wins ShortList Media magazine contract »
07.10 Publishing software company adopts QR codes for mobile links with print »
07.10 World's first 'individualised newspaper' set for Ifra launch »
07.10 MGS relocates to fuel expansion »
07.10 TMG launches parenting magazine »
07.10 ShortList Media awards magazine contract to Polestar »
07.10 Waitrose bases poster ads on Wenger comments »
07.10 The Standard Press invests in five-colour Heidelberg Speedmaster »
07.10 University becomes first in UK to use Dimensional Inks after Kodak Nexpress purchase »
07.10 Evening Standard denies Associated rift »
07.10 Decline in manufacturing prompts fears of double-dip recession »
07.10 Chesapeake's 28 European paperboard sites become FSC and PEFC certified »
07.10 TMG launches Polestar-printed parenting magazine »
08.10 Monotype launches Ysobel Pro typeface »
08.10 Arjowiggins sells carbonless paper division in MBO »
08.10 Favini to launch new grades at Luxe Pack show »
08.10 Deadline for Queen's Award applications approaches »
08.10 Heidelberg agrees 1,500 job cut plan »
08.10 News International launches Times+ »
08.10 UPDATED: Postal workers vote for national strike action »
08.10 Post Haste Printers meets colour demand with Speedmaster buy »
09.10 Binding inventor seeks partner for bindery development »
09.10 Morgana launches UV coating range »
09.10 Highworth Press rounds off £200,000 investment with finishing kit »
09.10 Lake Image and Domino team up to produce bottle label solution »
09.10 Job cuts likely at Piggott Black Bear as new owners cut costs »
09.10 Drytac launches 'most user-friendly' UV coater »
09.10 Reader Reaction: Do you agree that trading conditions are now improving? »
09.10 Amazon to release UK-ready Kindle this month »
09.10 Johnston Press to discuss Caledonian closure plans with Scotland's First Minister »
09.10 Rhodes Printing set for liquidation »
09.10 Hotprints launches social networking photo service »
09.10 Print 'best for ROI', study finds »
09.10 Webmart expands into general procurement »
09.10 Inca Digital boosts productivity and functionality of its Onset flatbed »
12.10 ICS upgrade offers NexPress users 'lower consumables costs and higher quality' »
12.10 Akar Sign opts for Gerber Solara Ion for UV flatbed production »
12.10 PrintSmith MIS extended for sign and digital work by EFI »
12.10 Durst extends Rho range with wide-gamut 900 »
12.10 Inca updates Onset S70 to improve performance »
12.10 Minuteman Press Bristol expands with Xerox 700 install »
12.10 Heidelberg/Manroland merger 'has been called off' »
12.10 BemroseBooth plans sale of Derby security printing site »
12.10 Blaze destroys repro department of Norfolk printer »
12.10 Cost of finance to fall as interest rates predicted to stay low »
12.10 POP printers 'must embrace cross-media future' »
12.10 UPM Shotton awarded Queen's award for sustainability »
13.10 Spirax Binding ordered to pay former staff compensation following tribunal »
13.10 Xerox unveils tools to show ROI of printed marketing materials »
13.10 Union sets date for strikes but offers last-ditch deal to Royal Mail »
13.10 Manroland on track for fully automated newspaper press by 2012 »
13.10 Sun Chemical signs 'taste advertising' deal »
13.10 Katz Group bought out by Koehler paper firm »
13.10 Datum CP first to use Designthing SME online design tool »
13.10 Mandelson brands CWU strike action a 'suicidal act' for mail industry »
13.10 Xerox targets transpromo market with latest digital colour launch »
13.10 LBH Litho 'in talks' with former Rhodes Printing director »
13.10 Garnett Dickinson appoints group sales director »
14.10 AbitibiBowater provides carbon credits to offset Ifra Expo »
14.10 BT&D launches marque to promote UK book printing »
14.10 GI Solutions Group renews CarbonNeutral certification »
14.10 ICSM praises prompt and decisive printers for cutting bad debt »
14.10 Xerox Document Supplies Europe launches Colotech Recycled paper »
14.10 Warren Board launches graphical and carton board swatch »
14.10 Madejski says BGP 'not up for sale' »
15.10 Anton Group buys UK's first NexPress SE3600 »
15.10 Dates confirmed for Royal Mail strikes »
15.10 OTM secures Creative Environmental Networks (CEN) contract »
15.10 Creative Environmental Networks awards OTM mailing contract »
15.10 M-real increases folding boxboard prices in Europe »
15.10 Specle.net 'could be the Google of ad specs' »
15.10 Nipson UK parent continues debt negotiations to avert CVA »
15.10 Muller Martini moves into targeted direct mail with ValueLiner launch »
15.10 Printflow responds to growing colour demand with Xerox iGen3 buy »
16.10 Carmel Containers opts for second HP Scitex flatbed »
16.10 Uni Mail brings digital work in-house with creation of new division »
16.10 Decision on sale of Gandi 'close' as bankruptcy protection extended again »
16.10 HPF Binders ceases trading »
16.10 Duplo adds saddle stitching to range with Alpha Saddle launch »
16.10 Encyclopaedia of finishing launched at book fair »
16.10 The Metropolitan Police Authority tenders £55m print contract »
16.10 Temporary workers legislation introduction delayed until 2011 »
16.10 Caldera opts for Adobe RIP and mobile module for MIS »
16.10 Martell warns of 'tough decisions' in first major interview as St Ives chief exec »
16.10 Industry reacts with anger to latest increase in paper prices »
16.10 Free press time offer 'a success' »
16.10 Paperlinx reshuffles PaperCo & HSP back-office infrastructure »
16.10 Journeyman celebrates a half-century in print »
16.10 Screenprint Productions takes UK's first Meital 302 from Andersons »
16.10 Charnock to leave St Ives at the end of the year »
16.10 Reader Reaction: Is legislation stifling the growth of print businesses? »
16.10 Tolerans makes life easier for customers with Speedliner 2.0 »
19.10 St Ives posts first loss in its stock exchange history »
19.10 John Bettis passes away »
19.10 Newnorth Print moves into B1 long perfecting with Speedmaster buy »
19.10 Service Graphics appoints telecoms veteran Westcott as sales director »
19.10 Onyx PrintMetryx offers online production analysis tool »
19.10 Wasatch adds in-RIP cutting tool Tracer to SoftRIP »
19.10 TNT lobbying government to carry out door-to-door deliveries »
19.10 Royal Mail to hire temp workers to clear backlog »
20.10 PrintWeek Pre-press Company of the Year 2009: Magnet Harlequin »
20.10 Outdoor extends effectiveness for financial service advertising »
20.10 BBC puts three-year £10m contract up for renewal »
20.10 Thomson Holidays attracts holiday-makers to Sensatori resort with mail pack »
20.10 INM advisors defend attacked board members »
20.10 Newspaper publishers holding employees 'at gun point' over pay freezes »
20.10 RR Donnelley signs European Works Council Agreement »
20.10 Epson boosts Stylus Pro range with SP7700 and SP9700 »
20.10 Economist ensures copies are PEFC accredited »
20.10 Research claims outdoor extends effectiveness for financial service advertising »
20.10 Print staff unaffected as 82 jobs set to go at Trinity in Birmingham »
20.10 PrintWeek SME of the Year 2009: Berforts Group »
20.10 PrintWeek Awards 2009 winners announced »
20.10 Clark to leave Guardian News and Media as part of restructuring »
20.10 PPS upgrades to thermal CTP with Heidelberg »
20.10 Credit Risk Solutions claims better cover is now available for printers »
20.10 WWF calls on publishers to use FSC or recycled stock »
20.10 PrintWeek Packaging Printer of the Year 2009: Beamglow »
20.10 PrintWeek Business Magazine Printer of the Year 2009: St Ives Peterborough »
20.10 PrintWeek Company of the Year 2009: Buxton Press »
20.10 PrintWeek Catalogue Printer of the Year 2009: Artisan Press »
20.10 PrintWeek Creative Repro Company of the Year 2009: ec2i »
20.10 PrintWeek Environmental Company of the Year 2009: Stralfors »
20.10 PrintWeek Post-press Company of the Year 2009: Coatings Direct (Bury St Edmunds) »
20.10 Robert Horne launches website for Revive range of recycled papers »
21.10 16 staff axed as Rhodes Printing appoints administrators »
21.10 20 staff axed as Rhodes Printing appoints administrators »
21.10 Mandelson warns of lost contracts as last-minute Royal Mail talks continue »
21.10 Imagehaus celebrates 10 years in business with pre-press upgrade »
22.10 UPDATED: New Royal Mail strikes planned for next week »
22.10 Tate returns as Communisis strengthens PM division »
22.10 Wohlenberg guillotine sales go to Friedheim »
22.10 DCL Print steps in after Centrereed closure »
22.10 Royal Mail strike action begins today »
22.10 HobbyCraft launches quarterly in-store magazine printed by Polestar »
22.10 Wifag to cut half its staff »
22.10 Falcon Press buys second Shinohara »
22.10 Wifag to cut half its web press staff »
22.10 Cromack named managed services development director at o2o »
23.10 Quad Graphics acquires UK digital magazine service »
23.10 FSP turns to GAE for short run machine »
23.10 Xerox reports steep profit drop as equipment installs remain slow »
23.10 TMB 'beefs up' polywrapping capabilities with Belca machine »
23.10 Arjowiggins adds green option to Maine paper range »
23.10 Displayways opens up new revenue streams with Océ Arizona 350 XT »
23.10 UPM boosts pulp production with further shares in Fray Bentos »
23.10 FSP turns to GAE for short-run machine »
23.10 30m letters delayed after Royal Mail strike action »
23.10 Fears over rise in employment claims »
23.10 GP Print invests in Morgana »
23.10 Stahlfolder brings Wyndeham Gait new markets »
23.10 UK still in recession following shock GDP decline »
23.10 Reader Reaction: How is the Royal Mail strike action affecting your business? »
23.10 PPG cuts staff and pay at subsidiary Bloxham »
23.10 Fears over rise in types of employment claims »
23.10 Stora Enso and M-real post deepened losses in third quarter results »
26.10 PrintWeek Awards video »
26.10 Neolt to debut 'solvent-priced' UV large-format printer at Viscom show »
26.10 White capability clinches wide-format investment for wedding stationery specialist »
26.10 Andesign invests in the UK's first EFI Vutek GS3200 »
26.10 Wikipedia founder ties with HP to add magazine printing platform to Wikia site »
26.10 Neolt to take large-format UV printer to Viscom show »
26.10 KBA launches fully automated plate-loading system »
26.10 UPDATED: Royal Mail in talks with CWU to avert latest strike action »
26.10 BED sale held up by 'ridiculous' HMRC claim »
26.10 Kodak's Preps 6 launched in UK »
26.10 PrintWeek Awards India 2009 winners announced »
27.10 Benson Group spends £1.9m on Europe's first Komori SX40 »
27.10 Associated proposes London Lite closure »
27.10 Whamoosh.com aims to rival Moonpig with new online greetings card platform »
27.10 Kodak and printweek.com launch first microsite »
27.10 BBC criticised by European print unions »
27.10 BED sale on track after HMRC withdraws bond request »
27.10 Egmont seals deal with Polestar for secret section of Go Girl magazine »
28.10 BT&D to offer on-demand print service to corporate customers »
28.10 Roland DG to 'transform' metallic printing with latest SolJet offering »
28.10 Secondhand finishing supplier celebrates first birthday »
28.10 Xerox upgrades mono wide-format offering with 6605 Solution »
28.10 Second hand finishing supplier celebrates first birthday »
28.10 Pitney Bowes unveils Multisort sorting system »
28.10 Lavenham eliminates bottleneck with Horizon spend »
28.10 Kirklees installs two KAS enveloping machines »
28.10 Elliott Baxter boosts recycled portfolio with launch of Oxygen Laser »
28.10 UPDATE: Royal Mail strikes get under way as CWU threatens extended action »
28.10 Only 11% of inserts 'contain green message' »
28.10 Seriously Responsible Print increases turnover by 60% »
28.10 Bell & Bain in line for MBO »
28.10 PPA loses second senior exec in six weeks »
28.10 Direct mail industry condemns Royal Mail strikes »
28.10 Pollard Boxes adds to new finishing department with Autobond spend »
28.10 Abseil team installs mammoth hotel graphic »
28.10 Norske Skog ranked first in climate change report »
28.10 Royal Mail strikes 'set to go ahead' »
28.10 PrintCity alliance to work on carbon footprint initiative for print and packaging »
28.10 Unite backs Chambers Harrap jobs petition despite lack of representation »
29.10 Consumers maintain preference for printed statements, survey claims »
29.10 UPM profit out of red for third-quarter results »
29.10 Kodak sales dip as Graphic Communications Group revenues decline »
29.10 Heidelberg Colour Look-Up guide aims to aid printers and designers with ISO 12647-2 »
29.10 ECRM Engineering and Polyester CTP division heads retire »
29.10 CPI completes £267m debt-for-equity swap »
29.10 Mailcom launches e-billing service for print clients »
29.10 Pro2col to offer Stonebranch's Infitran managed file transfer technology »
29.10 Xchange to hold Adobe application automation event »
30.10 CWU to announce two more days of strike action »
30.10 Paperlinx cuts 65 staff in restructure at Howard Smith Paper Group and PaperCo »
30.10 Unite to begin PBB/Celinco legal action »
30.10 Facing the wrap »
30.10 Reader Reaction: Is now the time for printers to diversify their offering? »
30.10 Government money to support small businesses should be used more effectively, says FPB »
30.10 More economic pain to come, experts warn »
30.10 INM says advertising market 'stabilising' »
30.10 PCC annual lunch sells out »