Online digital print giant Pixartprinting has diversified into customisable promotional items in three categories - technology, office and stationery, and home and leisure. The first tranche of promotional items includes more than 50 products, with thousands of combinations.
Alphagraphic has introduced the Acuity LED UV printer range to the Irish market, and installed an Acuity LED 1600 II at its Belfast base to provide demonstrations.
Caldera will use C!Print Lyon in France (6 - 8 February) to release V11.2 of its Rip for the wide-format market. It has three new features - HelpLinks, ContourNesting 180º and MultiLayer. Also new is support for a new OEM device TotalColor qb, the Barbieri platform for spectrophotometers.
EFI has recorded record fourth quarter revenue of $269.2m, up 1% compared to fourth quarter 2016 revenue of $266.7m. For the year ended 31December, 2017, the company reported revenue of $993.3m, up 0.1% year-over-year compared to $992.1m for the same period in 2016. But, cashflow from operating activities was $51.3m, down 58% compared to $121.0m during the same period in 2016.
New from Fujifilm comes the Acuity LED 1600R roll-to-roll printer, said to offer a flexible, lower cost alternative to the Acuity LED 1600 II. The new model - which will get its first public outing at C!Print Lyon (6-8 February) and be commercially available from 1 March - is optimised for four-colour CYMK printing, but is otherwise similar in performance to the hybrid model.
The Printing Charity is calling for entries to the 2018 Print Futures Awards. Grants of up to £1,500 are available to help people aged 18 to 30 years pay for recognised UK training courses for careers in the UK printing, paper, publishing, packaging and graphic arts sectors or to develop their existing workplace skills in those sectors. The closing date for applications is midnight on 29 April 2018.
ArtSystems has been appointed a trade distributor across UK and Ireland for Sihl media. All existing channel partners remain direct partners with Sihl.
Harrogate signage and graphics company AD Bell Sign Systems has bought an Epson SureColor SC-S80600 ten-colour solvent inkjet system ahead of a truck wrapping job that will require it to match Astro Turf green.
US-based creative design company Eclipse Corp has bought a Massivit 1800 3D printer to differentiate its service offering from other print competitors, with owner Jeff Burt predicting that the kit will be integral to achieving revenue growth.
InfoTrends has released a new study entitled ‘Looking for Big Opportunity in Graphic Communications and Specialty Printing’. It identifies key trends, investments, opportunities, and best practices of firms that offer sign, display, and specialty graphics.
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