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William Smith is now selling the full Avery Dennison product portfolio, six months after adding the first of the supplier’s ranges to its offering. It has now added supplying Avery Dennison Supreme Wrapping Film, 800 Premium Cast and 900 Super Cast.

Lintec Corporation in Japan has completed the acquisition of UK-based Lintec Graphic Films, having met all the conditions of the offer announced on 28 November 2016.  The acquisition agreement involved the purchase and transfer of all shares of Lintec Graphic Films to Lintec’s wholly owned European subsidiary, Lintec Europe based in the Netherlands.

Xaar has signed an agreement with Xerox Corporation to partner in bulk piezoelectric (piezo) inkjet printheads.

Designers within Leach Studio, part of Huddersfield-based Leach, have come up with conceptual designs for the Eternal Egypt gallery at Bolton Museum. The images show four different stages of the potential visitor experience and interested parties are being asked on what they think works and how they would like the exhibition space to look. More detailed concepts will then be drawn up and final designs submitted in the spring, with the museum re-opening to the public in 2018.

Epson has decided which of the four textile designers from its ‘Design for Living’ initiative will have their work reproduced at Heimtextil to demonstrate the quality and flexibility of its digital textile printing technology.

The Onyx 12.1 software, unveiled at Viscom Frankfurt in November, is now available for the full Onyx software product line including Thrive, ProductionHouse, PosterShop and RipCenter Rip software.

Innotech has added the Valiant Roller Banner to its range.

swissQprint has launched two new large-format printers - 4×4 versions of the Nyala 2 and Impala 2 series that come configured with quadruple CMYK.

Specialty paper manufacturer Felix Schoeller will show a new digital wallpaper collection and an expanded portfolio of S-Race sublimation papers for textile printing at Heimtextil 2017.

Kornit is taking an Allegro printing system to Heimtextil 2017 next week to demonstrate live end-to-end production of digitally printed home textiles, without any pre-treatment or finishing steps. Based on the company’s ‘Allegro and Cut’ concept, a one-step workflow can include pattern integration, nesting and digital cutting which the company believes will drive new business models.

IMI has announced three ‘Emerging Technologies Academy Courses’ that will run just ahead of its Ink Jet Printing 2017 Conference, which runs 1-3 February at The Florida Hotel and Conference Center in Orlando, Florida. 

Fespa UK Association has uploaded video highlights from its October 2016 ‘ Digital Print For Corrugated Packaging Summit ’ to its website, with more to follow.

Epson has two new hub sites dedicated to the development of industrial digital textile products. The Innovation Research Lab - focusing on ink technology R&D - has been created together with For.Tex. A Printing Research Center, in collaboration with F.lli Robustelli (recently acquired by Epson) will aid future development of Epson inkjet core technology dedicated to textile printing. The two new sites join Epson's established Textile Solution Center in Como, Italy.

EFI has announced that its Fiery digital front end and software workflows “perfectly processed all 48 test patches in the new Ghent Workgroup PDF Output Suite version 5.0”.