Potential visitors to Sign and Digital UK 2019 are being asked to help shape the show. Organisers are inviting PSPs to use an online form (https://www.signuk.com/help-us-shape-the-show#/) to suggest who they’d like to hear speak at the event, and to pose questions they’d like to see answered on the main stage.
Josero has joined the Hybrid Services sign and graphics authorised partner list and will promote Mimaki’s range of solvent roll-fed printers, integrated printer/cutters and cutting plotters.
The Navigator Company will be increasing paper prices in Europe - across all products and markets - by 4% - 6% from 18 January 2019. The continuous increase in key production costs were blamed for the hike.
UPM has published a new biodiversity commitment as part of its responsibility targets for 2030. The aim is to continuously improve the diversity of the 570,000 hectares of forest it owns in Finland.
Mutoh Europe has added the ValueJet 1627MH to its portfolio. This is a 64in wide, five-colour machine incorporating a hot air knife media drying system and using new MP-31 resin-based inks for direct printing on both rigid and roll substrates. Compared to its predecessor, the ValueJet 1617H, it is said to deliver a performance increase of up to 20%.
Looming negotiation deadlines, intensified political manoeuvring and heightened uncertainty surrounding Brexit has led to sheer bewilderment within a significant proportion of the UK printing industry according to the BPIF on release of its latest Printing Outlook survey results.
Financial Times editor Lionel Barber is to spend a second term as president of The Printing Charity. The announcement was made at the organisation’s annual lunch at Stationers’ Hall in London on 22 November.
Taking over a house in Shoreditch and turning it into a cocktail lab for Patron Tequila during London Cocktail Week has capped 21st birthday celebrations for Wolverhampton-based print and digital imaging specialist DIS.
A new company called Neos is using the Thin Film Silicon Mems Xaar 5601 printhead to develop inkjet print systems for a variety of applications such as packaging and decor.
Avery Dennison has added six new colours to its Supreme Wrapping Film range in the William Smith portfolio. The newcomers are Satin Metallic Safari Gold, Satin Metallic Dark Basalt, Gloss Pearl White Snow, Gloss Rock Grey, Gloss Metallic Sand Sparkle and Matte Olive Green.
According to research commissioned by Ricoh Europe, almost a quarter (24%) of the 3,300 SMB leaders surveyed from across 23 countries expect to sell entirely different products and services within the next five years.
