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To boost its brand-building effort, Italian-based Pixartprinting has created 'Your Vital Signs'. Through the experiences of eight athletes, the project will express the intrinsic values of corporate business by associating them with those of extreme sports such as trail running, downhill mtb, freestyle kitesurfing, speed skiing, freeskiing and wingsuit skydiving.

Blackman and White has been shortlisted in the Export Champion of the Year category of the Amazon Growing Business Awards 2016.

At Viscom Frankfurt (2 – 4 November) Onyx Graphics will unveil its Onyx 12.1 Rip workflow solution. The company said that on average, processing times in Onyx 12.1 software are three times faster than in Onyx 12 for halftone processing. Data transfer speeds to many grand format printers are also up to three times faster.

The Caldera V11 Rip suite has achieved HP certification for use with the HP Latex 500 series of wide-format printers.

Esko and Corbus LLC have done a deal that will effectively see the integration, where required, of Esko solutions with ERP and other back-end systems to help reduce time to market of packaging and brand management projects.

Yorkshire-based Leach has completed an 11m-long display commissioned to tell the 675-year-old story of The Queen’s College, a constituent of the University of Oxford. The company handled the design, production and installation of the 11 x 2.5m lightbox-based graphic.

Inca Digital has appointed Perfect Colours as UK distributor for its new Inca SpyderX dual flatbed/roll-to-roll printer. The SpyderX is the first model to be sold through Inca’s reseller network, which also includes Schneidler Grafiska in Sweden, and Digital HiRes in Spain.

Mimaki will use Viscom in Frankfurt (2 - 4 November) to show its recently announced Tx500P-3200DS to the European market for the first time. Also at Viscom Frankfurt, Mimaki will present the new UJV55-320 3.2m grand format LED UV inkjet printer and the Tx300P-1800 textile printer running with pigment inks.

Europoint has started stocking the new ColorFlow series of Avery Dennison Supreme wrap films.

A new ISO task force has been set up to work on a PDF standard to guide production workflow decisions and will make it possible to describe what a final printed piece is supposed to look like. Its chairman, Global Graphics’ CTO Martin Bailey, is inviting those in wide-format to get involved.

The Print Show next week will see the UK debut of the Sawgrass SubliJet-HD Fluorescent Spot Colour (FL) and SubliJet-HD Expanded Gamut (XG) inks.

The UK master licence of the Signarama franchise has been acquired by Aliyyah-Begum Nasser and Salim Giga. The daughter/father team hope to extend the network (which in total has more than 900 centres in over 50 countries) here in the UK.

The ‘InPrint Decor Survey and Report 2016’ is now available. It provides findings from a survey conducted in July and August by InPrint (the industrial print show) in collaboration with IT Strategies, TCM Conference Management and IMI Europe, and finds that decor is poised to be the next biggest area for growth for industrial inkjet.

Nine additions have been made to 3M’s 1080 Series Wrap Film range.