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Fespa UK Association is adding filmed presentations from its Fabric Printing Now and Screen Printing Now conferences to its YouTube channel. It will add a number of the presentations each week until the complete collection of 24 is online.

Now available from William Smith is the 3M Wrap Film Series 1380 which is said to have 50% stretch properties. The film also has a very low tack dry adhesive which gives a low initial grab.

The new Apogee Prepress v9.1 automates the production for wide-format output with hot ticket support and template-based production, and a new job-merging feature allows for the combination of completely different orders on the same print job. The built-in Apogee Impose also now features automatic bleed generation.

Papergraphics has become the sole distributor of the Massivit 1800 large-format 3D printer and Dimengel 3D printing material. The announcement comes on the heels of Massivit having received an undisclosed investment from Stratasys, the additive manufacturing solutions company.

Mimaki has launched the UJV55-320, a 3.2m wide roll-to-roll printer that uses UV ink cured with a low-energy LED light array. It runs at up to 110m2/hr and print resolutions of up to 1,200dpi depending on substrate.

Mutoh is presenting the latest addition to ValueJet roll-to-roll printers at Fespa Digital – the 64in wide ValueJet 1604X.

East Sussex-based digital print company Elephant Print and Display, which installed 600 Solar PV panels over Christmas to power its operation, says it is saving 64,350kg in CO2 emissions, equivalent to 215 trees being planted and around 500,000 light bulbs powered for a day.

HP has introduced the HP Scitex 9000 Industrial Press and HP HDR245 Scitex inks, saying they will enable more sign and display PSPs to capture industrial production speeds at an entry-level investment.

SAi had developed SAi DisplayGenie, a POP display and box design software powered by the company's Flexi software. It eliminates steps to improve the structural design of folding carton, corrugated cardboard and sandwich material POP and free-standing display units, as well as packaging.

New to Avery Dennison’s Digital Wall Film portfolio are three permanent wall vinyls: Canvas, Stone and Stucco.

Signs Express (Sheffield) has worked with Sheffield Museum’s Millennium Gallery to produce a 40m2 floor installation called ‘Birds Buildings and Botany’, using designs from textiles artist Harriet Popham.

At Sign and Digital UK 2016 AXYZ International will demonstrate its larger-format integrated triple-head Trident 6010 hybrid digital print finisher.

Keith Ferrel, founder of New Zealand-based Cactus Imaging and industry guru, has been appointed to the board of global directors for Dscoop. He has been a member of the Asia Pacific board for three years and recently became its chairman. It is expected that he will play an integral role in promoting the benefits of Dscoop to the sign and display sector.

Onyx Graphics has developed a Switch Configurator that supports the specific workflow demands of large-format printers. Based on Switch automation software from Enfocus, the new solution, called the Onyx Switch Configurator, will expand benefits of Onyx Connect software for graphics, textile, decor and industrial print applications. Onyx will demonstrate the product at Fespa Digital 2016 in Amsterdam this week.