Image Reports
Supporting the wide-format digital print sector
Fespa is looking for nominations to its new Hall of Fame, which it intends to become a ‘who’s who’ of the leading lights in the print community. Those who make it into the Hall of Fame will be recognised on site at Fespa Digital 2012 in Barcelona in a ‘gallery of stars’, and will have VIP status at this show and for future Fespa exhibitions and summits.
HP has become the headline partner for the new EcoPrint Europe Live 2012 event which takes place in Berlin from 26-27 September next year.
Signs Express Leeds has bought a HP latex printer and a RollsRoller after seeing the machines at William Smith’s recent Open for Business event.
Image Group has printed a number of collages direct to flagmesh banners for the new Manchester headquarters of integrated marketing communications agency Madhouse Associates.
A group of private investors has bought Grapho Technologies and renamed it SigmaJet.
Visitors from 34 countries were drawn to Fespa Asia 2011 in Singapore at the end of October.
The Fujifilm Speciality Ink Systems (FSIS) factory in the UK has won the ‘Best Process Plant Award’ at the 2011 ‘Best Factory Awards‘ run by the Cranfield School of Management and Works Management Magazine. The factory manufactures screen inks and digital UV inkjet inks for the screen and wide-format printing sector.
The new 61in HP Designjet L26500, the replacement for the 60in L25500 machine, has been added to the range of HP latex machines sold by channel partner William Smith.
UK software house Beacon Dodsworth has played a crucial part in a pioneering system which it claims enables more accurate evaluation of outdoor advertising’s effectiveness. The €3m system eschews the Opportunity To See (OTS) measurement for one based on Visibility Adjusted Contact (VAC) figures – calculating the number of people who actually look at an advert.
Onyx Graphics is introducing SmartApps PitStop Pro plug-in for Adobe Acrobat, giving wide-format shops the ability to optimise productivity by providing a more dependable PDF workflow.
Leeds-based large format printer Digital Plus said it is on course to double turnover in three years and has bought new 975.5m2 (10,500sq.ft.) premises in Kirkstall to house the expanding business. The company said an upswing in orders over the last 12 months for display and exhibition work, and various plans for the future, have led the decision to move from its Bramley site.
Integration Technology, Lumen Dynamics and Phoseon Technology have join together to form the UV LED Curing Association to address a growing need for current and potential researchers, suppliers, integrators and end users to gain a better understanding about UV LED technology and demonstrate how it can be used to achieve efficiencies.
Canon’s largest UK-based wide-format distributor, Velmex Distribution, has announced an exclusive agreement to distribute a Contex scanner and Canon wide-format printer bundle.