News

Annual printing ink sales are down 18% and the outlook remains very uncertain for next year according to data from The British Coatings Federation (BCF).

Drytac global product manager Shaun Holdom has been appointed to the ISA-UK council.

Global Inkjet Systems (GIS) has expanded its offering with flexible drive electronics for the Toshiba TEC CF3 industrial inkjet printhead.

Nazdar has released the white paper introducing ‘Image’, a new process to accurately predict weathering of outdoor graphics.

LinkedIn’s B2B Institute and GlobalWebIndex have published a report ‘Work in BETA: The Rising B2B Decision Maker’, which examines the changing behaviours and attitudes of the first cohort of digital natives (21 to 40 year-olds) to assume positions of seniority in business.

Esko has released a VariAngle tool for the Kongsberg C and XP range of digital finishing tables that enables cutting at any angle from 0o and 60o at up to 100m/min.

New from Agfa is the InterioJet 3300 multi-pass, water-based inkjet system for printing on decor paper used for interior decoration, such as laminate floors and furniture.

Where The Trade Buys has introduced a range of pods designed to people safe when visiting care home residents.

Drytac has become a member of the UK Slip Resistance Group (UKSRG), the first supplier of floor graphics products to do so.

Speakers from the Independent Print Industry Association’s (IPIA) 2019 EPIC (‘Everything’s Possible; Integrated Communications’) conference will return to the ‘stage’ in December to reflect on how effective their advice proved in 2020’s Covid-19 conditions.

The in-house printing department at UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has installed a Ricoh Pro L5130 latex printer and Summa cutter so it can extend its on-site graphics production.

Xaar has published a white paper subtitled ‘What goes around, comes around’, comparing the company’s TF ink recirculation technology with alternative ink recirculation techniques.

Leveraging insights from their data will be critical if SMBs are to overcome Covid-related challenges in the final quarter of 2020 according to TrueCue.

Screen Graphic Solutions and CGS Oris have developed a technology that predicts halftones from limited colorimetric data by using a proprietary algorithm that automatically generates complete CxF data. The new technology is available in CGS Oris CxF Toolbox, a software solution for storing, editing and communicating (brand) colours fast and reliably.