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.
With the DFE Profiler Module (DFEPM) - an extension of the Profiler Module (PFM) - ColorGate is offering a new method for ICC-characterisation of digital printing systems that have their own DFE (Digital Front End) and an integrated ICC-compatible Rip.
Simpson Group has spent £250,000 on a new MIS system from Tharstern. The MIS is the second significant investment for Simpsons since its management buyout in February this year - in the summer it installed an Inca Onset X3 flatbed printer. Together the purchases have cost over £1.25m.
Nottingham-based Grangeprint has installed the UK’s first Roland Texart RT-640M dye sublimation with the aim of boosting its turnover from soft signage.
Global Graphics company Meteor Inkjet - which works with inkjet printhead manufacturers like Fujifilm Dimatix, Konica Minolta, Kyocera, Ricoh, Seiko Instruments, Toshiba TEC and Xaar - has launched a new family of DropWatcher turnkey systems for evaluating and optimising printhead and ink combinations.
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