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Retail, OOH and exhibitions creative displays specialist Clicks has bought a Screen Truepress Jet W3200UV wide-format printer with dual flatbed/roll-to-roll capability to increase capacity and flexibility within its large-format operation. The new printer replaces two flatbed Inca Spyders and an HP L65500 and joins a variety of other small and large-format digital printers.

Roland has added a half-day laminating course, in conjunction with Vivid Laminating Technologies, to its Roland Academy training courses. It has also extended its Better Business Boot Camp offering.

Northampton-based motorsport graphics specialist 3SixtyWraps has wrapped this Ginetta G55 GT racing car competing in the G4 class of the 2015 British GT Championship.

Four more colours have been added to the Supreme Wrapping Film range, bringing the total to 86 - 81 colours and 5 chrome accent films.

Vivid Laminating Technologies has unveiled the Easymount Air wide-format laminator, available in 1400mm, 1600mm and 2100mm widths.

Lotus F1 Team, in co-operation with Warner Bros. Pictures, has created a new Mad Max Hybrid to coincide with the launch of film ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’. The vehicle was fitted with a skin printed on a Roland Soljet XR-640 using a 3M Wrap Film 1080-M230 Matte Grey Aluminium.

The Shop and Display Equipment Association (SDEA) will be supporting Retail Design Expo when it returns to Olympia, London in March next year. SDEA director Lawrence Cutler will remain on the steering panel that helped shape the inaugural event.

Delta Display has made a £3m spend at Fespa 2015. The investment includes a 5m Durst Rho 512R and two HP Scitex 11000 large-format printers. All three are scheduled for delivery in the summer.

London-based POS specialist SMP Group has placed an order at Fespa 2015 for an Onset R50i.

Mimaki plans to double production capacity having seen a 9.5% increase in turnover according to the chairman, A Ikeda, speaking at Fespa 2015, where the company introduced new printers and also confirmed it would have a 3D machine commercially available in 2016.

BrandIt large-format bespoke printed cardboard furniture founder David Bartlett is looking for UK PSPs to become licensees.

PressOn in Chatham has scooped the ‘People’s Choice of the Year Award’ for its Dazzle Ship Wrap at the 2015 Fespa Awards. It also won the ‘OOH, vehicle decals, printed labels and fleet marking’ category.

Yasar Guvenen has been inaugurated as the 16th president of Fespa, taking over from Augustus Martin founder Lascelle Barrow, who has served in the role of Fespa president since June 2013.

HP has added to the tranche of new printers it announced in April by bringing out the 3.2m wide HP Latex 3500 and 3100 at Fespa 2015, as well as HP Scitex 17000 Corrugated Press. The first 3500 has gone to PressOn, which signed for the printer at Fespa 2015 having beta-tested the printer since last winter and having recently moved from Rochester to a bigger site in Chatham following recent investment in various large-format machines.