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Next year’s International Print Day has been scheduled for 6pm ET 17 October - 6.00pm ET 18 October. The theme will be announced in due course.

A digital fabrication facility instigated by Robert Gordon University, known as Make Aberdeen, has installed a Jetrix KX3 inkjet printer.

SA International’s Flexi wide-format printing and signmaking software has been certified by HP for use with the latest additions to its Latex 300 Printer series launched at SGIA in the US.

Kernow has given names to its products, rather than just codes after customers requested the change.

Vinyl Decals Direct has confirmed its purchase of a Ricoh L4130 latex printer from Atlantic Tech Services. It was installed in September at the company’s new larger premises in Coalville, Leicestershire, as part of its expansion plan.

Dutch-based large-format Web-to-print specialist Probo has bought a Screen Truepress Jet L350UV digital label press to help it diversify.

Nigel Steffans, former general secretary and CEO of Fespa and more latterly a consultant, has retired after 23 years with the exhibition organiser.

Sun Chemical and its parent company DIC have acquired Gwent Electronic Materials, a manufacturer of conductive inks, pastes and powders for the printed electronics market.

Durst has launched a 3.2m wide textile printer – the Rhotex 325 – for 24/7 unattended production environments. Using new Durst WTS printhead technology and water-based dye-sub Inks the printer has a top production speed of 350m²/hour.

Agfa will use InPrint 2016 to position itself as ‘a partner for integrating print into manufacturing processes’.

X-Rite Pantone has released a new file format that allows the full communication of visual appearance in a single, editable file in order to improve the virtualisation process. Appearance Exchange Format (AxF) is vendor-neutral and provides a standard way to store and share appearance data - colour, texture, gloss, refraction, translucency, special effects (sparkles) and reflection properties - across product lifecycle management (PLM), computer-aided design (CAD), and art rendering applications.

Mimaki Europe has acquired La Meccanica Costruzione Tessili. The Italian textile printer manufacturer is now a subsidiary of Mimaki, the name having been changed to Mimaki La Meccanica. Three Mimaki executives will be appointed as directors.

The British Association for Print and Communications (BAPC) is calling for entries to its annual awards. Nominations are being sought for Business of the Year, Environmental Printer of the Year, and Supplier of the Year.

IMI has introduced new courses and seminars for its Digital Print Europe event programme at the Novotel Amsterdam City Hotel from 28 Nov - 1 Dec.