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The BAPC has flagged up that the Government is urging UK businesses to make full use of a recently revamped scheme to help them gain access to faster and cheaper broadband.

Adam Bourn Creative has taken the Wide Format Project of the Year gong at the BSGA British Sign Awards. The company took the accolade for its ‘One Commercial Street’ job that required the comparatively small operation to produce over 1150m2 of self adhesive vinyl and install it at a development of retail, commercial and residential properties in the City of London. 

Callprint, which created standalone business Jupiter Visual Communications in June to focus on the management of large-scale projects in the live events, retail, sports, transport and property sectors, has appointed a new retail and commercial team to spearhead growth at the operation. 

MTEX Solutions is introducing two printers at Viscom Frankfurt later this week: the Vision aimed at the transfer print market, and the Blue entry level direct-to-textile digital printer. The Vision is available now and can be seen at MTEX’s Technical Training Centre in Portugal, and the Blue will be available for shipping from January 2015 with pre-orders being taken at the show. 

PressOn director Andy Wilson thinks the BPIF has got it wrong when it comes its stance with Creditsafe over the latter’s amended credit ratings model (http://www.imagereportsmag.co.uk/news/4-wide-format-news/5488-bpif-voices-concerns-to-creditsafe-). 

The BPIF has voiced its concern to company credit report supplier Creditsafe with regard to the impact on many UK printing companies of the recent upgrade to their credit ratings model. 

EFI is continuing its acquisition run with the purchase of key intellectual property assets for digital inkjet printing of thermoformed products from Polymeric Imaging, a provider of UV and LED inks for graphic arts and industrial applications.

Perfect Colours will now supply InkTec’s Jetrix flatbed printers in the UK. From the 1.2 x 1.2m KX3 to the 2.5 x 3.06m KX7, each machine in the range offers a six picolitre drop size and the ability to print onto materials up to 100mm thick.

The Agfa Graphics’ Jeti Titan HS printer has been named ‘Product of the Year’ at the 2014 SGIA Expo in Las Vegas. 

Fespa will host its fifth Digital Textile Conference on 5 December 2014 alongside Fespa Eurasia 2014 Istanbul. The conference will take place at the WOW Hotel, located opposite the exhibition venue.

Weedoo Signs is the perfect example of a British sign company seeing continual growth. Based in the UK they specialize in the design, manufacture and installation of a variety of indoor and outdoor graphics and signs. Weedoo Signs currently manufacture their products in a three stage process; printing, mounting and laminating. With the rate of growth their business is currently seeing, this process is simply too time consuming for their demand. 

EFI announced that Orbus Exhibit and Display Group has developed faster, high-quality fabric-printing capabilities for the growing "soft signage" market using a newly purchased EFI Vutek GS3250lxr Pro LED printer running SuperFlex Ink from EFI and 3M.

London-based Genix has invested in the first MTEX 5032Pro direct-to-textile digital printer to be installed in the UK. 

Fespa China and CSGIA 2014 (19-21 November 2014) has expanded its floor space by an entire hall compared with the inaugural event last year. The 2014 show will be 9,000m2 bigger than the last one, largely because of exhibitors taking bigger stands. These include: Cham Group, Chemica, J-Teck, Monti Antonio, MS, Siser, Stahls and Zund, with some exhibitors increasing their participation by more than 80%.