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Sign and Digital UK will see the launch of a new InkTec bulk ink filling system that it claims could save printers up to 65% on ink costs. It will be available either as an open floater cartridge, where ink goes directly to the printhead, or a closed ink pouch system suitable for printers where the ink goes to the printhead via a sub tank (bag) from the cartridge and for printers with vertical positioned cartridges.

Distributor CMYUK has officially opened its new showroom and demonstration suite in Shrewsbury following a £1.3m investment in the new building and the printing/finishing kit it houses. Councillor Beverley Baker, Mayor of Shrewsbury, was at the opening, which follows nine months of planning and preparation for the move that director Jon Price called “a strategic necessity”.

The worldwide launch of Industrial Inkjet Ltd’s (IIJ) XYPrint 300 system will be at Fespa 2015 in Cologne this May. Live printing will be carried out over the five days of the show on the XYPrint 300, an inkjet system for process development, print research, direct product decoration, material deposition/additive manufacturing and low-volume production.

The Royal Academy Schools’ ‘Premiums: Interim Projects’ exhibition showcasing students’ work, includes various pieces produced using Epson large-format printers installed at the on-site Digital Media Suite sponsored by the company.

Canon Europe has signed a distribution under which it will market, sell and support 3D Systems’ 3D printers, including the ProJet 1200, 3500 series, 4500, 6000 and 7000 in the UK and Ireland, with a view to rolling out across Europe.

The Drupa innovation park 2016 (dip) will have six theme parks displaying current trends and topics along with business cases associated with process-oriented print and publishing solutions.

Colour management, packaging, proofing and design solutions specialist, Nth Degree Imaging, has joined Roland DG’s network of UK authorised dealers.

Sign and Digital UK has confirmed the schedule for its Business Theatre and Signmakers’ Workshop sessions.

In the Business Theatre, HP will run two workshops, one presented by Terry Raghunath and Jane Rixon, who will delve into the new digital solutions for wall decorations in the seminar ‘Explore the wall-covering opportunity with HP Latex Printing Technology’.

Roland DG has confirmed its attendance at The Wide Format, Screen, Digital and Displays Show in Glasgow at the Hilton Strathclyde on 10 - 11 March. The company will show the VersaExpress RF-640 printer, the popular VersaCamm VS-300i print-and-cut machine and the VersaUV LEF-20 desktop flatbed printer.

Callprint is expanding its Birmingham-based Midlands hub, which will see the company move to a new city centre location, double the size of its current base.

Contract Sign Systems has signalled its intention to diversify its service offering by becoming the first UK-based company to invest in Canon’s Océ Arizona 6160 XTS wide-format flatbed printer. It has also bought a Zünd G3 digital cutting table.

Agfa Graphics has added support for electronic document distribution to the latest version of StoreFront, its Web-to-print solution. Designed for the display/signage and commercial printing markets, Apogee and Asanti StoreFront 2.3 can now be used by PSPs to market services and products like images, PDFs, ePub files or website banners. ?

UK large-format POS specialist Best Digital has boosted production capacity by 50% after buying a Screen Truepress Jet W3200UV HS wide-format flatbed printer. The new machine, part-funded with a £50,000 grant from the UK’s Regional Growth Fund, features CMYK plus light cyan and light magenta and two opaque white ink channels.

Roland will dedicate one of two stands to textile printing at the Sign and Digital UK 2015 show where it said it will also provide a “number of UK firsts and exclusive pre-launch previews” as well as provide entrepreneurial and innovative applications.