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The Printing Charity, a national UK charity for people in printing, publishing, graphic arts and the allied trades, has announced it is launching two major initiatives in its drive to increase the number of people it helps.

Although Neschen has a presence in the UK and Ireland through its distributors, Nottingham-based ArtSystems is assuming responsibility for the sale of all Neschen branded products and will take over Neschen's UK&I sales team.

Fespa is seeking nominations of print solution providers for its Hall of Fame 2013. The initiative will culminate at Fespa 2013 in London next June where the overall ‘Global Printer of the Year’ will be announced alongside the top five printers in each country.

C3 Imaging has been taken over by Zenith Media and Zenith Print and Packaging which has made the acquisition to widen its print services portfolio.

‘Competitors pricing below cost' remains by far the issue most frequently highlighted by print companies as one of their top three business concerns. 85% of respondents in the latest BPIF 'Printing Outlook' survey (carried out during the first two weeks of July and covering 107 companies employing 8,368 people with a combined turnover of £1 billion) marked this as an issue, followed by ‘late payment’ (31%) and 'survival of major customers' (28%).

Antalis McNaughton has produced a guide for recycled paper and board. It is divided by categories on coated, uncoated, carton/graphical board, premium uncoated and creative papers.

As many as 90% of UK website owners are currently ignoring EU laws requiring websites to obtain ‘informed consent’ from users before employing cookies to store information from a computer or mobile device according to Gary David Smith, co-founder of Prism Total IT Support.

EcoPrint will see Sepiax officially launch its Aquares V3 resin ink technology. At the event it will present Aquares 3.0 ink for semi-industrial and signage. The company also and promises to introduce other new products for OEM partners.

The Cabinet Office warned that business will have to expect loss of internet connections due to the massive surge in demand that will be caused by the London Olympics.

Informa Print and Media Group, the organiser of Ipex and the new Cross Media show, has acquired MediaPro from CloserStill Media. Informa will integrate MediaPro within Cross Media 2012, which runs from 3 - 4 September 2012 at the Business Design Centre in Islington, London.

A bid to force small businesses to pay for their own health and safety inspections is being criticised by the Forum of Private Business. Under the ‘Fee for Intervention’ proposals, set to come into force October 2012, firms deemed to be in ‘material breach’ of health and safety regulations by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) would be forced to pay inspectors’ hourly rates from the moment the inspection begins.

The eight winners of the 2012 Print Futures Awards, the annual grant scheme sponsored by Unite the Union, The Printing Charity and the British Printing Industries Federation (BPIF), have been presented with cheques at the All-Party Parliamentary Print Group’s event at the House of Lords, London.

Roland DG (UK) has teamed up with SignElements (formerly isignstock) to offer Roland Forum members up to three free image downloads every week to celebrate SignElements’ re-brand.

Yellotools, a European manufacturer of sign shop and wrap tools, has created a traffic stopping graphic on the side of one of its buildings in Windeck, Germany. The company produced a 15 x 10m print depicting a derelict workshop which was applied to a blank concrete wall.