News

Canon will present the Océ Arizona 1280 GT flatbed printer to the UK at Sign and Digital 2016. The company has also released a new range of imagePrograf Pro large-format printers.

GMG is expanding and reorganising its proof media portfolio into two lines: GMG ProofMedia Premium and GMG ProofMedia Studio. The Premium line is for contract proofing, while the Studio range is targeted at creatives wanting reproduce accurate colours during the design process.

Industrial Inkjet (IIJ) is to open a dedicated Customer Centre near Cambridge. in the UK.

Sign and Digital UK has announced the programme for a new ‘Become a wrap expert’ workshop to be presented by Sign and Digital Materials.

Epson has played a key role in The RA Schools ‘Premiums Interim Projects’ exhibition, which has taken place for the first time in the Sackler Wing of Galleries at the Royal Academy.

Jim Miller, owner of Millers Decals, USA, has been crowned new Fespa World Wrap Master.

French companies have walked away with most of the Mactac Creative Awards this year.

Ipex will return to the NEC next year. The show, which moved to London’s Excel in 2014, was due to take place again there in spring 2018, but the organizer, Informa, is following Drupa in planning a new a three-year cycle and believes a return to its old home will breath new life into the event.

Eastman Kodak is selling its Prosper inkjet business and related products. Those related products include the Ultrastream inkjet printhead technology that was announced at the recent pre-Drupa press conference. Philip Cullimore, president, enterprise inkjet systems division and senior VP Eastman Kodak, said at that time that Kodak expected to have “OEMs in most vertical markets, including wide-format” by the end of Drupa.

Josero has signed an exclusive dealership with Prague-based Comagrav for the distribution of its Digi cutting table in UK and Ireland.

PPB has launched a new range of industrial plastics suitable for UV digital flatbed printing, including Lumex G (PETG) and Lumex A (APET).

Orafol has brought out a new Caravan Film for decorating the side of motorhomes with photographic images.

It was London-based large-format print specialist Insite Graphics that supplied the graphics, signage and waymarking for Fespa Digital 2016. The event marked a decade-long relationship between Fespa and Insight Graphics.

Hybrid Software and Creative Edge will host a one-day workshop on 12 May in Leicester aimed at UK packaging and label printers who might not be able to attend Drupa 2016.