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The VersaTech2 all-in-one cutter, developed by MCT digital with Blackman and White, has won the 2016 SGIA ‘Product of the Year Award for Finishing - Routers/Cutters’.

Roland DG will hold interactive Experience Days in three locations during October and November. They are: Wednesday 19 October - Renault Sport, Enstone; Tuesday 1 November - Newcastle Racecourse; and Wednesday 9t November - Rookery Hall, Cheshire.

Palette, creators of the Cube portable colour digitiser, have introduced a Farrow & Ball colour library to the hand-held device that allows creative professionals to digitally capture colour and match it to a variety of paint and colour libraries, through connected smartphone and desktop apps.

HP has used Graph Expo 2016 in the US to expand its high-speed inkjet portfolio with four new 30in HP PageWide Web Presses for commercial PSPs. The new printers are the T390 HD, T390M HD, T380 HD and T370 HD.

Redditch-based digital printer PSW Paper and Print has confirmed it has bought the first 2.5m Agfa Anapurna H2500i LED system. The machine, installed in mid-July, is a six-colour plus white ink high-speed hybrid UV LED-curable inkjet, capable of imaging up to 115m²/hr.

Signbox and the Graphic History Company have worked to deliver a stunning Thames mural made up of 3,500 author names for book publisher Hachette UK’s Carmelite House site on the north bank of the River Thames.

EFI has used Graph Expo in the US to highlight three newly developed inkjet technologies - that also received Must See 'Ems honours at the show.

Mutoh will use C!Print Madrid and Viscom Italia in October, and Viscom Frankfurt in November, to show the ValueJet 1638UH - a dual head/dual lamp 64in wide LED UV printer for flexible and rigid substrates. It offers print resolutions up to 1440 x 1440dpi, and uses Mutoh’s VOC-free LED UV CMYK, white and varnish inks.

PPB has begun its relocation to larger premises in Leeds. The move, expected to be completed over Christmas, follows the company’s September 2015 move into new warehouse and office premises in London to service Home Counties customers.

US show SGIA has seen Bordeaux introduce its new Eden PG ink, demonstrated on its Velvet Jet pretreatment-printer-heater combo to show how it can be used for all types of fabric.

New from Stora Enso is a paperboard called CKB Nude. Made from pure virgin fibre, it is an uncoated, brown board and comes in 205, 230 and 255gsm. 

Italian-based Pixartprinting has beenawarded TUV certification, which confirms that its ”management system meets the requirements of UNI EN 15838: 2010 - contact centre support services for clients, consumers and citizens".

This week marked the start of a new era of sustainable designs for members of the Shop and Display Equipment Association (SDEA), when it launched environmental tool Convert Plus at 100% Design in London. Alan Pegram, SDEA president and managing director of Global Display, joined the association’s director, Antony Behiels to mark the launch on SDEA member Stylo’s stand.

Project Print Management pulled together this latest printed hoarding design for Westminster Abbey. It replaces traditional sign writing graphics installed in April and intended to remain in-situ for a year but requiring replacement due to construction work.