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PaperlinX will showcase applications produced via digital technology, including wide-format, and present to commercial printers new opportunities for sales growth and additional revenue streams, at an event on 3 and 4 September.

The first stocks of the Mimaki JV300 printers, launched at Fespa Digital, has arrived at UK and Irish distributor Hybrid Services. This first batch is already sold. “We’ve had a demonstration machine in our showroom for several weeks and the response has been incredible. We’ve already got a waiting list for the next batch of machines,” said John de la Roche, national sales manager, sign and graphics at Hybrid.

Those seeking licensed Color-Logic printers can now go to a map on the Color-Logic website (www.color-logic.com). The new map shows indicates the print process each certified Color-Logic printer uses-including inkjet, offset lithography, flexography, digital printing and screenprinting.

Alchemie Technology will launch a licensing programme for the Jetronica FabriCoater technology at the IMI Ink Jet Technology Showcase in the US, 3 - 4 September.

Jonathan Berry and Paul Harrison of Envision Media in Skelmersdale have celebrated their company's tenth birthday with the purchase of a Bobis Lite applicator table with LED under lighting from Atech. "It will turn what is a two man sign making process into a one man job and will increase production capacity by around 200%," said Berry.

Proskills UK managing director Jonathan Ledger is calling for the print community to back Schools Into Industry project PrintIt!. “PrintIt! needs industry help more than ever. With no other funding source, it is essential that the print, paper and allied industries and sub-sectors continue to support PrintIt! both financially and in-kind,” he said.

Sihl Direct UK has appointed former Paperlinx man Kelvin Furniss as regional sales rep for the Midlands.

Futurologist Richard Watson will deliver the talk ‘Futurevision - The World of Print in 2020’ at the Two Sides and Print Power Autumn Seminar.

Wide-format media supplier Soyang Europe is to put its latest surface coverings directly in front of a creative audience by exhibiting at the 100% Design show at Earl's Court in September.

From 23 September to 4 October the Mead Carney Gallery in Dover Street, London, will be showing works by American artist Jeffrey Kroll that wed mobile photography and painting with images printed onto canvas via large-format Jetrix inkjet printers.

USA-based Dome Printing has purchased a pair of 3.2-metre wide EFI Vutek printing systems. The recently installed EFI Vutek HS100 Pro UV inkjet press and EFI Vutek GS3250lx Pro LED inkjet printer are the centrepieces of Dome Printing's new, superwide-format graphics business.

Enfocus has announced PitStop FontFix, a new Adobe Acrobat Pro and Standard plug-in that checks and replaces fonts missing from PDF files.

Graphics specialist Logoshack has installed a tailor-made Zund S3 L-1200 cutting system.

Together with Verseidag Indutex, a German-based supplier of coated fabrics and technical textiles, Orafol has introduced a product combination for premium backlit banner signs.