Media manufacturer Brett Martin is now getting a quarter of its energy from renewable sources. The Northern Ireland-based company has started supplementing energy supplied by its own onsite wind turbine with electricity from a solar installation funded and developed by Lightsource BP.
Trade distributor ArtSystems will use The Print Show next month to show the Summa F1612 flatbed cutter as part of a live print finishing demonstration driven by the new Onyx 18 print management and Rip software. It will be the first UK showing of Onyx 18, introduced in May.
Signs Express (Stoke) has completed a large-scale branding exercise at Reliance Medical’s new 2,323m2 headquarters in Kidsgrove. It includes a building logo measuring 10m x 8m.
In a survey conducted in association with Atomik Research, Instantprint has discovered that four out of ten (43%) people believe online ads are the most intrusive form of marketing.
Your Print Partner (YPP) is crowdfunding a new personalised Web-to-print service. At the time of writing it had raised £46,310 of a £500,000 target. The aim is to have CustomGifts.co.uk up and running in October.
The Azon Leather Matrix wide-format UV-curable inkjet flatbed printer - that can print up to 200mm in height - will get its UK debut at The Print Show next month.
The printer comes in three flatbed sizes - 600mm x 1200mm, 600mm x 1800mm and 1100mm x 2500mm - and has a maximum resolution of 2880dpi. It will be shown on the Atlantic stand at the NEC.
The UK printing industry almost exactly matched the downbeat expectations for Q2, as far as output and orders are concerned but forecasts for Q3 suggests some growth ahead according to the latest Printing Outlook survey from the BPIF.
This year’s TCT Show at the NEC in September will see the UK and Irish launch of Mimaki’s colour 3DUJ-553 3D printer on the stand of its exclusive distributor Hybrid Services.
Fespa UK association will run a conference entitled ‘The Future of Print i4.0’ on 10 October 2018 at the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC), Coventry. The intention is for the event to address the challenges and propose strategies for PSPs to respond positively to technological developments.
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