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EFI has been awarded with five ‘Must See Em’s’ at Graph Expo in the US.

The promotional campaign for the London-hosted Fespa 2013 exhibition has taken off with the 'Your Destination for Print' theme.

The HP Latex Application Tour is coming to the UK on 1 October and will visit six locations over a two-week period.

Canon has added another five large-format printers to its imagePrograf range. The 24in, 44in and 60in eight-colour and 12-colour devices use Luci EX inks, making Canon the only company to use a singular inkset across an entire large-format range.

Rapidly expanding, Yeovil-based Sign Solutions SW has ordered the first Roland XR-640 in Europe. Sign Solutions owner Kate Murray placed the order on the day of the machine launch through authorised dealer, printMax. It is due for delivery in November.

Oasis Graphic Co is going for growth by creating additional office space for a new pre-press and print department, and recruiting and promoting some key members of staff.

South Yorkshire-based ink specialist Diamond Dispersions has teamed up with international sales consultant Shaun Sagar to help grow its business in the UK, Europe, US and Far East.

Signtek wrapped this Lotus Evora for a race in the British GT Championship in near record time. The company was approached by the team from Lotus Sport at 5.15pm on a Wednesday to ask if it was possible to wrap the car in time for a championship race on the Friday.

Caldera will reveal Flow+ 1.6, the latest version of its workflow solution, at SGIA Expo in Las Vegas later this month. There have been major enhancements to the quoting system, customer relationship management and user interface, as well as a number of new tools and a faster processing engine.

Zünd UK will b running a series of open days at its technology showroom in St Albans in conjunction with its specialist grand-format resellers. The first will be on 18, 19 and 20 September with PaperLinx Group, followed on 16 - 17 October at Océ, and ending in December with CMYUK.

New from Roland is the 64in wide SolJet Pro4 XR-640 print/cut machine, purpose built for production printing with a maximum print speed of 49.1m²/h.

Event and retail display graphics specialist Silver Bullet has installed one of the UK’s first Epson SureColor SC-S30600 wide-format inkjet printers at its new walk-in service point in Sandy, Bedfordshire. This is the first of a network of large-format digital print walk-in centres that Silver Bullet will be rolling out over the coming months and plans to franchise.

In the textile sector, Heytex is launching what has been standard in the paper market for quite some time: the blue back of the new HeyTex Soft Blueback banner material which allows for the reproduction of brilliant white.

Hollanders Printing Systems will be joined by three of its Competence Center partners (X-Rite/Pantone, GTI, and Georg+Otto Friedrich) at EcoPrint where, with the support of other partners, it will highlight the environmental benefits of working with fabrics to create eco aware soft signs, banners, flags, interior décor and other applications.