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OKI has made two senior appointments to its UK senior sales and marketing team. Lars Hargaard has been made marketing director for the UK, Ireland and the Nordics, and Dylan Haworth takes on the role of sales director.

New from Integration Technology (ITL) is the UV LED Booster XT8, said to deliver 30% more power and be more efficient since there is less input power required to run the LED chips.

Family run Perton Signs in London has ordered an EFI Vutek GS3250LX Pro. Installation is expected December.

i-Sub has added the EFI Vutek FabriVu 180 and 340 high resolution fabric printers to its portfolio.

Spandex has received media certification for ten of its ImagePerfect substrates for use with the HP Latex 300 series of digital printers.

Hexis UK has appointed Ronan Walshe as area sales manager for the East and South East of England. He joins from Stanford Marsh Group, having previously held machinery sales roles at companies including printMax, CWES, Atech, Perfect Colours and Sericol/euromedia.

Fast growing large-format digital textile print company Your Print Partner is ploughing well over £1m into larger freehold premises and new kit. A 1950m2 building - set on a 1.05 acre site close to its current site in Lincoln - will house sales and accounting offices, a design studio and photography suite, meeting rooms, two product showrooms, staff recreational facilities and over three times as much production and warehouse space as the current site.

Mimaki is using Viscom Italia this week to introduce a 1.8m belt-type printer for short run textile printing. The Tx300P-1800B can run with five different ink types: the Sb420 Sublimation Dye Ink, designed to work with polyester-based textiles, either direct to fabric or to a sublimation paper; Dd400 Dispersion Dye Ink for high light-fastness and build-up on polyester and micro-polyester;

To boost its brand-building effort, Italian-based Pixartprinting has created 'Your Vital Signs'. Through the experiences of eight athletes, the project will express the intrinsic values of corporate business by associating them with those of extreme sports such as trail running, downhill mtb, freestyle kitesurfing, speed skiing, freeskiing and wingsuit skydiving.

Blackman and White has been shortlisted in the Export Champion of the Year category of the Amazon Growing Business Awards 2016.

At Viscom Frankfurt (2 – 4 November) Onyx Graphics will unveil its Onyx 12.1 Rip workflow solution. The company said that on average, processing times in Onyx 12.1 software are three times faster than in Onyx 12 for halftone processing. Data transfer speeds to many grand format printers are also up to three times faster.

The Caldera V11 Rip suite has achieved HP certification for use with the HP Latex 500 series of wide-format printers.

Esko and Corbus LLC have done a deal that will effectively see the integration, where required, of Esko solutions with ERP and other back-end systems to help reduce time to market of packaging and brand management projects.

Yorkshire-based Leach has completed an 11m-long display commissioned to tell the 675-year-old story of The Queen’s College, a constituent of the University of Oxford. The company handled the design, production and installation of the 11 x 2.5m lightbox-based graphic.