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Wide-format format specialist Papergraphics has boosted its management team with the appointment of Michelle Dellow as product manager. She joins from Muraspec Wallcoverings where she was responsible for coordinating products across Europe and the Middle East. Her new role will see her heading up the development and design of products that allow printers to expand into new sectors.

Throughout September and October, companies within the GDL Network are opening their doors so that PSPs can see HP wide-format printers in action in working print environments.

Smurfit Kappa has been shortlisted for the UK’s Institution of Mechanical Engineers TMMX and The Manufacturer MX, Sustainable Manufacturing Category Award for 2015. It was chosen for its ‘Protect their Future’ project that encourages all its employees to make a sustainable difference by considering and acting upon the impact of their home and working lives on the future of the planet and environment.

The new LED-based SpectroJet from Techkon is understood to be the first scan-spectrophotometer on the market able to scan up to 2m meters in length with a speed of up to 40cm/second, applying the new measuring conditions M0 to M3 according to ISO 13655. It can be used on large-format printing as well as for test-chart evaluation.

Agfa Graphics’ newly refurbished showroom in Leeds is now home to the Anapurna M2050i and the Anapurna M3200i RTR. “Visitors can also see Storefront, our Web-to-print software” said Steve Collins, inkjet marketing ND channel manager, Agfa Graphics UK & Ireland.

SAi has announced worldwide availability of SAi Flexi 12 for signmakers and wide-format print businesses. The launch has been timed to follow the release of Microsoft Windows 10, with which it is fully compatible (as well as with Microsoft Windows 7 and 8).

MTEX Technologies will open its doors on 22 - 23 September to provide an introduction and demo of its three direct-to-textile printers for the wide-format sign and display sector.

Tharstern will use Graph Expo 15 next month in Chicago to formally launch itself into the US. Just over 12 months after a management buyout, and completing what is said is its most successful year in business, the MIS developer will roll out solutions across America.

Smurfit Kappa Abercarn has been nominated in the POS category for the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) UK Starpack awards that will take place in September. Overall Smurfit Kappa has seven shortlisted products across five award categories.

A reminder that the Power of Print seminar takes place on 3 November at Stationers’ Hall in London. Ten experts will present of the theme ‘Exploring the future of print media in a multi-channel world. Speakers will include Mark Cruise, head of print management at Sky.

On the 16th of September 2015 from 10am-7pm Roland DG will be pioneering their first Better Business Experience Day; an event held at the Roland DG HQ in Clevedon to inspire, teach and motivate veteran, new and potential Roland DG users, with a focus on print and print-and-cut technology.

LEICESTERSHIRE, ENGLAND – Vivid Laminating Technologies, Europe’s leading designer and manufacturer of laminating systems, will unveil their ‘NEW’ Easymount Air Pneumatic Wide Format Laminator designed and assembled in-house by Vivid technicians which is to be launched in the US at Graph Expo 15 in September.

Graphixsigns has praised Quality Print Services Ltd (QPS) for helping it to continue production on a 'problematic' Grenadier wide-format printer.

Leading supplier of CNC routing, engraving and cutting solutions, AXYZ International has relocated from its former main UK and Continental Europe facility in Wolverhampton to a larger and more strategically located site on the Telford T54 Business Park. The move was as a “fairly fast- track process”.