News

Paper merchant Premier Paper raised in excess of £11,000 for Breast Cancer Care with its ‘Think Pink this October with The Premier Paper Group’ campaign.

The latest ‘Printing Outlook’ survey from the BPIF reveals that 32% of printers polled were able to increase output in the third quarter of 2016, 38% maintained output levels, and 30% experienced a fall in output - much better overall than the pessimistic forecasts for the period.

Hove-based Special Art Services (SAS) Graphics is now providing a wide-format trade printing services following the installation last month of a Fuji Acuity Select X28 flatbed printer.

swissQprint has won the 'Preis der Rheintaler Wirtschaft 2017' business award from the Rhine Valley Business Forum, which each year honours people or entities that are outstanding in their own particular way. The jury gave the 2016 gong to the UV flatbed developer for its “exceptional performance and role as an ambassador for the region”.

Web-to-print specialist Pixartprinting is marketing its online print services with a quirky Christmas video campaign to be aired to 15 December. Each of ten episodes will feature discounts and surprises on customisable materials and products, all revealed through an advent calendar.

France-based substrates manufacturer Senfa - part of the Chargeurs Group and maker of the Decoprint printable textile range - is expanding its reach and offering. January 2017 will see the creation of a US-based sales position and employment of Spanish speaker to cover Central and South America.

3D sporting events signage specialist Amayse has launched a patented system that allows two different printed images to be displayed to different camera angles from the same space -  doubling branding possibilities for TV exposure. 2View CamCarpets are made of a lightweight, foam structured material with a heavy backing which includes an anti-slip layer.

Japanese fashion designer Yuima Nakazato has used Fujifilm’s Acuity Select 20 large-format UV inkjet printer, together with high-elongation Uvijet KV ink, to create a stunning dress for the Paris Haute Couture Collection.

Kiian Digital will use Fespa China later this month to introduce Digistar Display, its new sublimation ink designed for direct and transfer printing with kit using Epson printheads. The range consists of eight colours - four process, two light and two spot colours.

Roland DG is using the Formnext show in Germany this week to showcase the potential of its ceramic 3D printing technology. The company said new jetting technologies make it possible to create complex ceramic objects with a small to mid-range 3D printer that lets small to mid-size companies get in on the rapid manufacturing action.

Three companies - HiScene, Inuitive and Heptagon - have teamed up to take augmented reality (AR) a step further in terms of 3D depth sensing and AR/VR applications. The new HiAR Glasses’ AR operating system provides stereoscopic interactivity, 3D gesture perception, intelligent speech recognition, natural image recognition, and inertial measuring unit (IMU) displayed with an improved 3D graphical user interface.

Smithers Pira is predicating that the digitally printed textile market will be worth 2.42billion Euro by 2021. Its newly published report, ‘The Future of Digital Textile Printing to 2021’ values the current market at 1.17billion Euro and forecasts an annual average growth of 12.3% to 2021.

IMI Europe has released detail on its conference and course programme for the first half of 2017. In addition to the Inkjet Ink Development Conference and Inkjet Summer School, there are two new events in the period: the IMI Europe Winter Workshop and IMI Europe Inkjet Engineering Conference.

Fespa and Esma have partnered to launch a conference aimed at industrial printers, manufacturers and brand owners. The first Industrial Print in Production conference will take place 7 - 9 March 2017 in Hamburg, and will explore the use of print and related techniques within the manufacturing process.