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When VISG was asked to create full vehicle wraps for the four ‘battle buses’ that featured in a political comedy TV series in the run-up to the recent General Election, the company had three days to turn the job around, including the removal of existing graphics. It used 3M IJ25 digital print film and 30 Series coloured film for the buses.

Newtech’s next wide-format, screen, digital and display show will be 14 – 15 July at the Paintworks, Bristol.

In its flagship Adobe Creative Cloud 2015 release Adobe has included major updates to Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC, Premiere Pro CC and InDesign CC; as well as new connected mobile apps for iOS and Android. The company also released Adobe Stock, a stock content service. In addition, it announced an expanded Creative Cloud enterprise offering. “Creative Cloud 2015 is our most powerful and comprehensive release to date,” said David Wadhwani, senior vice president, Digital Media at Adobe.

GEW has developed what it’s calling a futureproof hybrid UV curing system called ArcLED.

A company called BeBop Sensors has won the 2015 Frost and Sullivan North American Technology Innovation Award for its fabric embedded sensor technology.

Simon Harrop, CEO of Brand Sense Academy is the first speaker to be named for this year’s Power of Print Seminar, which will take place at Stationers' Hall in London on 3 November. Another nine speakers will join him during the day programme and be followed by an evening speaker at a special dinner.

The Shop and Display Equipment Association (SDEA) has published a new guide to the shopfitting and display industry - the SDEA Retail Display Directory 2015/2016, which lists over 100 designers, manufacturers and suppliers of specialist retail display products and services.

The ISO TC130 committee that sets global standards for the graphic arts has adopted the X-Rite Color Exchange Format version 3 (CxF3) as the new standard (ISO 17972-1:2015) for colour data exchange and verification.

A new MSc Management programme has been announced by the BPIF that will be delivered by the Management Development Centre (MDC) and awarded by the University of South Wales.

Willow Graphics has won the ‘Creative Use of a Substrate’ award at The Print, Design and Marketing Awards for its work for the Icebar in London.

Antalis has signed an exclusive agreement for the UK distribution of pretex, a synthetically impregnated paper manufactured by Neenah Lahnstein.

Avery Dennison is sponsoring of Team LottoNL-Jumbo cycling team for the next two seasons. Among many races worldwide, the team will be entering the Tour de France. 

Canon is introducing a revamped version of its Business and Innovation Scan for the graphic arts market, which now features market trend analysis in an extended range of application areas including wide-format.

PDF preflight, correction and editing solutions company Enfocus has announced a technology partnership with e-Cervo. It means the latter will include PitStop as an embedded component of CervoPrint, its flagship Web-to-print solution. Available as an option in its current version CervoPrint Gen4, PitStop will be included as a standard functionality in the upcoming new CervoPrint generation that is to be released towards the end of this year.