Image Reports
Supporting the wide-format digital print sector
Solent Sewing and Welding Solutions in Portsmouth is to show the Miller Weldmaster range with the HP Latex Designjets during open days on 4th, 5th and 6th October at the Solent offices at the Warrior Business Centre in Portsmouth.
Screen’s Widescreen 2011 event will take place at its headquarters in Milton Keynes, 11 – 13 October. As well showing the capabilities of Screen’s latest Truepress Jet wide-format printers, Widescreen will bring together equipment and ancillaries from other vendors and will show visitors how to cost, manage and produce a range of 2D and 3D products and displays.
Just before Sign and Digital UK this year GWL Colourlink resellers went on a mission to find the oldest wide-format inkjet printer and the oldest wide-format plan printer in the UK. The outcome is that the oldest wide-format inkjet printer (36in+ wide) has been identified as a HP Designjet 200 bought in 1991 and still working at Slater Engineering in North Yorkshire.
Fespa Digital Man is back, pursuing a digital journey to Fespa Digital 2012 in Barcelona next February, which is now being marketed with the strapline ‘Explore the Wider Opportunities’.
Mutoh Belgium has introduced its 54in ValueJet 1324” and 64in ValueJet 1624 into Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
LightBrigade, the full-service print company created by the directors of Total Print, has bought an Agfa Anapurna M2050 UV-curable printer to service its growing wide-format display business. It will run alongside its family of offset presses and finishing equipment at its new Surrey headquarters.
Lovephotobooks.com is a new online personalised photobook service from family-run bookbinder Hollingworth and Moss, which has diversified into print. This latest venture has been made possible via the company’s investment in a 44in Epson Stylus Pro 9900 inkjet printer.
A survey of 1000 businesses across the UK, commissioned by the Signs Express network, shows that external signs are holding their own in the marketing mix.
Spandex is to distribute Agfa’s Anapurna UV curable inkjet printers, but not in the UK or Australia.
The latest addition to Agfa Graphics’ Anapurna family of wide-format UV-curable inkjet printers is a dedicated flatbed engine featuring quick-change vacuum bed technology, six colours (CMYKLcLm) and white ink. Agfa said it is priced to attract entry-level purchasers as well as established users switching to the latest UV technology.
Fujifilm Graphic Systems UK has revamped its customer showroom at its UK headquarters in Bedford to showcase new print applications and highlight what can be achieved with the latest print technologies.
MacTac presented its 2011 Design Awards to UK-based winners at a dinner on Friday night. Onward Display, UK winner, immediately donated its 1000 Euro winnings to The West of England MS Therapy Centre.
Carsten Knudsen, EskoArtwork's CEO, has officially opened the company’s UK offices.
Award winning printers, Ian Crossley of Greenhouse Graphics, Stuart Mason of The Ink Shop and Andrew Watts of Apple Print will reveal their trials, tribulations and successes in business to attendees at the BAPC Conference 2011, 20-21 October, at The Holiday Inn Hotel in Elstree, Hertfordshire.