News

HP is to be a Gold Sponsor at the second PODi European AppForum to be held on 24-25 September 2013 in London.

Consultancy group Printfuture will run a series of Master Classes at Ipex 2014 that focus on business growth and production efficiency for SME printers.

Kyocera is opening an inkjet printhead design centre at its European headquarters in Esslingen, Germany on 23 September. It will provide technical support for printers that use Kyocera printheads and customers will be able to visit the centre to test and evaluate print quality under various conditions with their particular media.

At two open days, taking place at Agfa UK's headquarters in Leeds on 9 – 10 October, wide-format printing equipment distributor i-Sub Digital will host live demonstrations of the Agfa Anapurna M2050. Demonstrations will also include cutting and finishing on a Zund cutting table and attendees are invited to bring their own files to test both machines.

Fashion designer Henry Holland has used graphics printed by Displayways on an Océ Arizona UV flatbed printer, together with a giant angled mirror, for his London Fashion Week catwalk show. The technique is a fashion first and created the illusion that models at the show were walking on clouds.

Spring 2014 will see the publication ‘Disruptive Supply Chain Strategies for the Wide Format Printing Market’ from InfoTrends.

imageData Group has ramped up capacity once again by installing a Durst Rho 1012 at its large-format digital centre in Howden, East Yorkshire.

Ilford Imaging and Ilford Property companies have been bought out by CEO Paul Willems and CFO Jean-Marc Metrailler. The news came just ahead of confirmation that the company has secured a technology partnership with Lintec Sign Systems Inc. which sees the latest Ilford coating technologies being applied to a range of bases manufactured by Lintec and sold under the Lintec brand.

FM Brooks, organiser of the new industrial print show InPrint, has promoted Stefanie Thiele to the position of exhibition manager.

Hybrid Software is launching what it calls “a totally new ‘workspace’ concept to the Web-enabled production environment”. Cloudflow is a Web-based portal that is already known in the labels and packaging markets, but it now being rolled out across the whole graphics arts sector.

Agfa’s Asanti wide-format production software now supports the latest Adobe PDF Print Engine technology (APPE), PDF Print Engine 3.

Colourgen is citing the rise in popularity of Mutoh ValueJet printers as one of the main reasons for a 12.5% rise is sales revenue for the year ending June 2013. It says sales of other products, including Seiko I Infotech ColorPainters, Caldera Rips and Kala laminators have also increased.

HP has been using the recent MoOD 2013 expo in Brussels to highlight the possibilities for custom-printed interior design graphics, wallcoverings and other furnishings.

Texas-based visual communications and graphics manufacturer Foxmark Corporation has installed its third EFI Vutek superwide format printer, a 3.2m GS3250 Pro UV flatbed/roll printer installed with an EFI Fiery proServer.