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EFI has won eight gongs in the annual Must See ‘Ems technology awards at Print 2013 in the US. It’s the third consecutive year EFI has taken the most honours presented to a single company.

The government’s is to begin a consultation with employers over giving them the financial control to design apprenticeships. The consultation will be open to all interested parties and examine the way apprenticeship funding is distributed.

AJD Group, of Bournemouth, UK, has become an exclusive HP branded large-format digital print service provider. The group, comprising AJ Print, BPE Signs and Just, has two HP Latex 260 printers and two Designjet Z6200 photo printers and is considering adding a HP flatbed too. It uses HP inks and media, believing this to be the most effective way to deliver reliable quality on a wide range of substrates for diverse indoor and outdoor applications.

UK-based Tech-ni-Fold has prevented a third US company from continuing to sell a device that Tech-ni-Fold believes infringes its Tri-Creaser patents. Rosback Company, Michigan, will be discontinuing its current design of its TrueScore-Pro and TrueScore-Pro Quad products.

Jon King of Story Worldwide will be one of the Two Sides/Print Power key speakers at the Autumn Seminar on Monday 4 November at Stationers Hall, London.

Ceres Media has restructured and split into two separate divisions: Natural AdCampaign Print will continue to focus on the large-format printing industry marketing various products under the NatureWoven and TierraFilm brands; and NAC Industrial Products will market new NatureFloor products into the construction and plumbing and heating markets.

Focussing on what it does best has been crucial to Print Monkey’s success – and it’s starting to show, as the young company, headed up by Lucy Ratcliffe, continues to secure new business with key clients. Her small team operate out of impressive modern premises in the Shropshire market town of Whitchurch and provide wide-format print services to customers in the North West and Midlands, making use of an enviable line up of printing, cutting and finishing hardware that includes a Mimaki JV5 wide format printer, a Mimaki CJV30-160 printer/cutter, a standalone Mimaki CG-160FX plotter and a laminator. A new Rollover flatbed laminator is soon to be added to the arsenal, ensuring a speedy response to outdoor durable jobs.

A further ten percent of the floorspace of the inaugural Fespa Eurasia show has been booked since it was announced at Fespa 2013 in London.

A DuPont LifeCycle Based Solutions programme means retailers can recycle entire Tyvek and Tyvek Vivia displays. To complete the lifecycle of the Tyvek products, DuPont has partnered with Waste Management in the US to create a recycling kit and programme that sees banners recycled and reprocessed into resin, which is then repurposed for a variety of uses.

Avery Dennison 777 Cast Film is now in stock at Spandex and ready for next day delivery. The new range of 100 coloured films offer conformability over rivets and corrugations, with up to eight years durability at a similar price level of a polymeric film.

How do people real use and interact with printed media in the digital age? That’s the theme of the PODi Europena AppForum in London on 25 September.

The latest BPIF ‘Printing Outlook’ report shows that activity within the UK print trade was more buoyant than expected during the second quarter of 2013. The July survey showed that whilst a majority of 53% of companies reported no change in demand levels more than a quarter (28%) said that the volume of domestic orders had improved. This outweighed a figure of 19% that suffered deterioration and also exceeded expectations from last quarter.

Recent FSC and PEFC confirmation certification in the UK of selected HP wide-format media has given resellers the opportunity to sell chain of custody certified HP wide-format media for the first time in the UK. ArtSystems can now provide these HP certified media with an unbroken chain of custody to resellers.

A new version of Adobe Creative Cloud (CC) lets creative teams buy membership of a single desktop application, such as Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC, InDesign CC or any of the entire collection of CC desktop applications.