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Esko has entered into an OEM relationship with Epson to provide a customised Digital Front-End (DFE) for use with the Epson SurePress L-4033A and L-4033AW inkjet digital label presses.

3 Sigma, a supplier of specialty custom adhesive and top-coated materials, has completed installation of a wide-format specialty coater that accommodates 80in-wide materials and can apply multiple coatings and/or adhesives on both the front and back of the substrate. A laminating station permits producing pressure sensitive constructions with liner or multi-layered product designs.

Registration is now live for Sign and Digital UK 2013 which will take place at the NEC from 30 April to 2 May.

Chime Communications is to fully integrate subsidiaries Icon and McKenzie Clark, making its sport and entertainment division, CSM, one of the largest branding implementation agencies in the UK. At the time of writing the group was actively seeking a site within the south-east section of the M25 area in which to house the merged operations.

Colorific has said its new UV Light will be commercially available from the end of January 2013. Pricing for a 64in wide printer conversion kit starts at £2,550 and pricing for the full solution - a Roland RE 64in printer plus Lightbar conversion kit - starts at £13,495.

Epson Europe has collaborated with Ilford to develop the Omnijet Display Trans Media Kit for the production of backlit displays.

Process Metallic Colour System developer Color-Logic has been made a Silver Technology Partner by HP Scitex. Together, HP Scitex and Color-Logic enable large-format printers to produce striking images on metallic substrates.

Rudi Blackett, event director for Sign and Digital UK has responded to the launch of the new European Sign Expo next year with surprise. The event, recently announced by Fespa and partner European Sign Federation, will run alongside Fespa 2013 in London in June. Sign and Digital UK takes place at the NEC in Birmingham, 30 April - 2 May in 2013.

The BPIF says the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has listened to its arguments and reduced the target requirements for the new climate change agreements scheme due to start in January.

Planet Positive has launched a Business Detox programme to help companies cuts costs and get into better shape in 2013 by cutting energy, carbon emissions, water and waste. There is a 25% discount for those with fewer than 100 employees that sign up in December.

CloudPrint 2013 is a half-day seminar programme at the Hunkeler Innovation Days on 12 February 2013 in Lucerne/Luzern, Switzerland, jointly organised by EBDA and PODi with the support of Hunkeler.

UK POS specialist Best Digital is planning to buy a second machine due to the impact installation of the world’s first Truepress Jet W1632UV wide-format flatbed printer has had on the company. Joint managing director Geoff Rawlings said the initial Screen machine, ordered at Drupa in May, is “now producing work at five times the previous speed and four times the quality being achieved with the old kit,” and taken Best into strategically bigger, more profitable markets.

Esko has made two key appointments: Christian Korte takes up the newly created position of senior vice president sales, while Marian Zincke has joined the company as vice president digital finishing.

Fujifilm has added four more models to its Acuity Advance Select UV flatbed printer range. The new versions include four, six or eight independent ink channels in two different flatbed sizes, with an upgrade path to allow for application and business expansion.