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Newspaper printer Sharman & Company has splashed out pounds 1m to upgrade its Peterborough facility, including two new web-offset printing towers from Tensor Group. 'It gives us more colour capacity,' [...]

AdFast, the Newspaper Society's five-year-old ad delivery system, has sent its two millionth file, less than a year after it hit the 1m milestone. The landmark was reached with an [...]

Johnston Press is to upgrade its Peterborough plant to print full-colour with a new Ferag mailroom and extra towers for its Goss Universal 70 press. The pounds 11m investment at [...]

Flexo newspaper plant Harmsworth Quays has increased daily print runs of lunchtime freesheet Standard Lite by 20,000 since its launch in December. The paper, which is effectively the second edition [...]

Trinity Mirror has estimated that it will have to spend pounds 55m to print full-colour at its Watford site in its 2004 accounts released this week. The national and regional [...]

The Northcliffe Press in Derby is to resume a reduced production schedule on its Goss Colorliner 70 in the next few weeks, but is unlikely to be back to full [...]

Daily Mail and General Trust has completed its pounds 135m five-year programme to upgrade Harmsworth Quays, the world's biggest flexo newspaper plant, a year ahead of schedule. The investment in [...]

Acorn Press Swindon has bought its first MBO folding machine from Friedheim International. The folder, a B30/444 with FA66 stacker delivery, has replaced a Stahl unit. 'Although the MBO folder [...]

Mirror Colour Print is to produce Xtra, a 1.6m-run, 88pp weekly newspaper that will be distributed in pubs and bars across the country from October. Some 200,000 copies will also [...]

Polestar Greaves in Scarborough has resumed full production after an explosion last Wednesday (29 October). Polestar had to divert the production of weekend newspaper supplements to other plants after the [...]

Ever wondered what the most stressful job in print is? We used to think it was being a PrintWeek journalist, what with the long hours and bad coffee, but we've [...]

London's Guardian Newspapers Group is to start production at its first digital site in Australia in June. Copies of the Guardian and the Observer will roll off an Oce Newspress [...]

Docklands-based newspaper printer West Ferry Printers is looking to switch to CTP production. Chief executive Bill Wenman said a decision could be made in weeks and that the company 'had [...]

The Irish Times says it has raised productivity and quality at its new City West printing plant in Dublin thanks to Agfa's Polaris platesetters and IntelliNet workflow software. 'Without doubt [...]

Northcliffe Newspapers is to close its Chelmsford printing plant with the loss of 55 jobs and the breaking of nearly 240 years of history. Work for the Essex Chronicle series [...]

Johnston Press has entered a 30-day consultation for the closure of its Harrogate printing plant, which could result in the loss of 40 jobs. A 'lack of colour capabilities' was [...]

Newspaper printers pulled out the stops to increase the pagination of Sunday editions following the late-breaking news of the death of the Queen Mother. Guardian production director Fiona Morris praised [...]

Newspaper printers pulled out the stops to increase the pagination of Sunday editions following the late-breaking news of the death of the Queen Mother. Guardian production director Fiona Morris praised [...]

The problem for the newspaper industry wanting to compete in Marshall McLuhan's global village is that it produces a bulky product from a centralised location. While most newspaper publishers have [...]

Caption: Newsprinters, a subsidiary of newspaper contract printer Newsfax, now has its two MAN Roland Uniset 70 presses operational. The presses at the east London company are capable of producing [...]