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William Smith’s new dedicated vehicle wrap website has gone live. It features a product selector tool that guides visitors to the most suitable coloured and digital products for purpose, as well as a knowledge base providing hints and tips, video references, FAQs and an image gallery. In addition product and application bulletins and brochures can be downloaded.

The Print Futures Awards, the scheme for young people in printing, publishing and the graphic arts, sponsored by The Printing Charity, Unite the Union and the BPIF, is set to more than treble in potential size.

Cross Media 2013 will take place 23 - 24 October 2013 at the Business Design Centre in Islington, London. Building on the inaugural 2012 event, this year’s Cross Media will focus on the theme of 'Joined-up thinking - the power of multi-channel marketing' and will provide the latest solutions, case studies and seminars on how the marketing, print and publishing industries can maximise the effectiveness of their multi-channel communications to deliver a higher return on marketing investment.

All Print Supplies (APS) has appointed Jon Thompson South West sales manager.

Fresco, probably best known for its Picture Wall product, has now come up with the Curvorama popup display option. It uses Soyang’s anti-curl SoFlat pull-up banner media coupled to flexible header and base units with magnetic ends to produce what looks to be a standard roller banner display, but which morphs into a multi-drop, curvy and gapless graphics backdrop.

Hampshire Flag Company has provided 12 flags, 12 lengths of bunting, two banners, banner frames and flagpoles for The Coldest Journey expedition led by Sir Ranulph Fiennes.

Expanse is a new premium wide-format media brand from CWE Solutions. The offering is made up seven vinyls, two poly laminates, a pop-up and a roll-up material. All come with ICC profiles for the most commonly used wide-format printers with particular focus on the HP latex range.

Super-Wide Digital hopes to restate its commitment to trade print in 2013 having moved into new premises in Manchester and installing a 5m Durst Rho 500R.

Graphic Printing Technologies (GPT) is introducing the GPT 190s, a 1.9m wide printer based on an existing Mimaki textile machine and said to be twice the speed of the JV33.

EFI's Connect 2013 programme was nearly sold out a week before the event which takes place 15-18 January at the Wynn Las Vegas.

Mimaki distributor Hybrid Services will be running a ‘Print, Finishing and Applications’ event on 5/6 February.

The Printing Charity is offering cash grants of up to £250 each to help print workers and their families affected by the recent floods in Devon.

The GCC RX series of cutting plotters, with maximum speeds of up to 1530mm per second, is now available from Grafityp.

HP has announced a digital printing solution for wallcoverings to help both print providers and wallcovering manufacturers capture more of the growing custom décor market.