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Print Head Doctor machines for cleaning and recovering inkjet printheads are now available with new 75 kHz ultrasonic tanks that have an adjustable power output and provide a safer treatment according to maker Digital Sign Technologies.

Memjet OEM partners will show solutions incorporating its waterfall inkjet head technology at FachPack 2016 (27 – 29 September, Nuremberg, Germany). Afinia, Printing Innovation and Xanté will show systems

Kettering-based i-Sub will throw open its doors in October to show-off its fully renovated site. The company, which more than tripled its previous floor and warehouse space when it moved to the new location last November, has worked hard since then to provide two new demonstration centres. Exact dates of the open days are yet to be agreed.

Mimaki will use Viscom Paris (6-8 September) to introduce the UJF-3042 MkII and the UJF-6042 MkII UV flatbed printers, which replace the UJF-3042HG and UJF-6042 models respectively. The new versions have print speeds 20% faster than their predecessors, and can use an array of different inksets.

At SGIA Expo in Las Vegas next month (September 14–16) Agfa will introduce the 3.2m wide Anapurna H3200i LED hybrid printer.

On 1 September Horner Brothers Paragon will change its branding to Paragon Group UK. The move reflects Paragon’s acquisition of the Rotherham,-based PSP in August 2013 and is part of a wider strategy to align the Service Point branches, Paragon’s Sunderland operations and Horner Brothers under the same Paragon brand.

Guangzhou Xucheng Electronic Technology (Xucheng) has become the first OEM partner to develop, and launch, wide-format inkjet printers based on the Xaar 1201 Thin Film piezo printhead announced at Drupa 2016.

The Rt. Hon the Lord Blunkett will be guest speaker at The Printing Charity’s’ 189th Annual Luncheon on 3 November at Stationers’ Hall in London.

SA International (SAi) has received certification of its software solutions by HP for use with the Latex 500 series printers. The certification applies to SAi FlexiSign and Print, FlexiPrint, FlexiPrint SE, FlexiPrint HP Edition Premium and FlexiPrint HP Edition Pro software. SAi Rips now have HP media profiles built-in as standard.

Indian company Welpac Pvt has bought the country’s first MTEX Blue digital textile printer. "We bought it because we wanted to diversify into soft signage,” said MD Mayoor Kurva, who ordered the kit through Arrow Digital.

Graphic Printing Technologies (GPT) has appointed Dave Moore its media sales manager. He moves from Intercoat, where he was UK account manager for nine years.

Premier Paper has been doing its bit for charity by sponsoring a weekend woodland camping experience with Wilder Things UK, in conjunction with The Woodland Trust, for children affected by the 1986 nuclear disaster at Chernobyl.

Online printing company Saxoprint now offers customers a tool to configure individual boxes and cardboard gift packaging. ‘Saxoprint easy box’ allows users to design boxes down to the millimetre in terms of height, width and depth, which are made from 350gsm chromo board, and the entire surface area can be printed. Packaging sample sets are also available in a neutral pattern or with Saxoprint branding for a small handling fee.

Kornit has bagged Caroline Okun, director of Sprout Patterns at Spoonflower, to speak at its Digital Innovation Event in Düsseldorf, Germany on 9 September.