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Belgium-based Printix has bought its country’s first EFI Vutek GS3250lxr Pro roll-to-roll LED printer.

Sign and Digital UK will see ArtSystems introduce a new ClustaRack designed to hold two inch and/or three inch core size rolls of media for storage. The company will show the product alongside the latest Summa cutters including the new F-Series flatbed, the DC5X, S-Class T Series and XY Autotrim machines.

New from Fuji is the Inca Onset R40LT wide-format, flatbed UV printer.

Based on the Onset Scaleable Architecture platform, the Onset Series now comprises 18 different models and three different handling systems.

Stanford Marsh Group Graphics (SMGG) has expanded its cutting solutions with the addition of the Colex Sharpcut flatbed machine. It sits alongside the Fotoba cutters already distributed by SMGG.

One of the keynote sessions at the upcoming Retail Design Expo Conference is a presentation and discussion by the Shop and Display Equipment Association on the developing SDEA Sustainability Initiative.

HP will offer up a ‘Digitally Printed Supermarket’ on its stand at Packaging Innovations 2015 later this week to demonstrate how its Indigo and Scitex printers can help brands deliver high quality, creative marketing campaigns. Samples printed on the HP Scitex FB10000 will include packaging, POP/POS and other corrugated applications.

Kyocera has opened an inkjet test lab in Esslingen, near Stuttgart, Germany. It will supplement the inkjet design centre at Kyocera’s European base, which opened in September 2013 to provide technical service for printer and ink manufacturers that are working with Kyocera KJ4 Series inkjet printheads. The facility has three Kyocera field engineers who provide onsite support and remote technical service to customers.

CMYUK has been voted EFI Inkjet Sales Partner of 2014. The UK dealer of EFI’s wide-format Vutek printers beat all other countries to the coveted number one position for channel sales.

Signs Express sales director Tony Marsh joined the board of British Franchise Association (BFA) and sits on the quality and standards committee.

QuarkXPress 2015, which is expected at the end of March, will allow better and faster, PDF output with the help of callas software. This is because this professional-grade software for layout and graphic design now supports document output in PDF/X-4 format, verified by callas pdfToolbox. This means that PDF/X-4 files exported from QuarkXPress 2015 will be certified with the same technology used in Adobe Acrobat.

Canon’s new Oce ColorWave 500 and 700 will make their UK debut at Sign and Digital UK in March. Both come as printer only models and as MFPs and use the latest version of Oce CrystalPoint technology.

Signbox has completed a signage project at UBM’s new headquarters at 240 Blackfriars, central London, having been commissioned by main contractor Swift Refurbishments to devise and implement a bespoke solution.

POD has officially changed its name to MTEX Solutions to consolidate and standardise the MTEX brand across its manufacturing arm, the products and other companies associated with the name.

Clicks Print Limited, the central London-based printer, has ordered a second LumeJet S200 printer, less than six months after installing its first, because it needs additional capacity to meet demand it expects to be generated by a new B2C print brand to be unveiled by the company later this year.