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Durst has launched a 3.2m wide textile printer – the Rhotex 325 – for 24/7 unattended production environments. Using new Durst WTS printhead technology and water-based dye-sub Inks the printer has a top production speed of 350m²/hour.

Agfa will use InPrint 2016 to position itself as ‘a partner for integrating print into manufacturing processes’.

X-Rite Pantone has released a new file format that allows the full communication of visual appearance in a single, editable file in order to improve the virtualisation process. Appearance Exchange Format (AxF) is vendor-neutral and provides a standard way to store and share appearance data - colour, texture, gloss, refraction, translucency, special effects (sparkles) and reflection properties - across product lifecycle management (PLM), computer-aided design (CAD), and art rendering applications.

Mimaki Europe has acquired La Meccanica Costruzione Tessili. The Italian textile printer manufacturer is now a subsidiary of Mimaki, the name having been changed to Mimaki La Meccanica. Three Mimaki executives will be appointed as directors.

The British Association for Print and Communications (BAPC) is calling for entries to its annual awards. Nominations are being sought for Business of the Year, Environmental Printer of the Year, and Supplier of the Year.

IMI has introduced new courses and seminars for its Digital Print Europe event programme at the Novotel Amsterdam City Hotel from 28 Nov - 1 Dec.

OKI has made two senior appointments to its UK senior sales and marketing team. Lars Hargaard has been made marketing director for the UK, Ireland and the Nordics, and Dylan Haworth takes on the role of sales director.

New from Integration Technology (ITL) is the UV LED Booster XT8, said to deliver 30% more power and be more efficient since there is less input power required to run the LED chips.

Family run Perton Signs in London has ordered an EFI Vutek GS3250LX Pro. Installation is expected December.

i-Sub has added the EFI Vutek FabriVu 180 and 340 high resolution fabric printers to its portfolio.

Spandex has received media certification for ten of its ImagePerfect substrates for use with the HP Latex 300 series of digital printers.

Hexis UK has appointed Ronan Walshe as area sales manager for the East and South East of England. He joins from Stanford Marsh Group, having previously held machinery sales roles at companies including printMax, CWES, Atech, Perfect Colours and Sericol/euromedia.

Fast growing large-format digital textile print company Your Print Partner is ploughing well over £1m into larger freehold premises and new kit. A 1950m2 building - set on a 1.05 acre site close to its current site in Lincoln - will house sales and accounting offices, a design studio and photography suite, meeting rooms, two product showrooms, staff recreational facilities and over three times as much production and warehouse space as the current site.

Mimaki is using Viscom Italia this week to introduce a 1.8m belt-type printer for short run textile printing. The Tx300P-1800B can run with five different ink types: the Sb420 Sublimation Dye Ink, designed to work with polyester-based textiles, either direct to fabric or to a sublimation paper; Dd400 Dispersion Dye Ink for high light-fastness and build-up on polyester and micro-polyester;