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Xaar and Ricoh have formed a strategic partnership to maximise the benefits from each other’s expertise in thin film piezo printhead development. Xaar has also announced a collaboration with Global Inkjet Systems (GIS) to deliver and sell drive electronics and ink supply systems optimised for the Xaar 5601 family of printheads, launching at Drupa.

RA Smart and i-Sub are now selling the Roland Texart XT-640 dye-sublimation transfer machine.

Fastsigns International - franchisor of Fastsigns - has opened its first co-branded centre in the UK. “The opening of Fastsigns Oxford North, our first UK co-brand centre, helps us lay the foundation to take the successful North American co-brand concept to international markets,” said Mark Jameson, EVP of Franchise Support and Development.

CMYUK has appointed a new senior digital sales consultant. Jason McNulty has over 15 years’ sales experience in wide-format printing equipment and consumables from companies such as Mimaki, Vutek, HP, Epson, Easymount and Seal.

Soyang Europe has taken on self-adhesive specialist Kerrie-Anne Moore to drive forward its new range of self-adhesive vinyls and wallcoverings from Decal.

Stylo Graphics has bought a Massivit 1800 3D printer. The Watford-based company placed the order via Papergraphics at the start of Drupa where the manufacturer was showing the machine publicly for the first time. The Massivit 1800 can produce pieces up to 1.8m high. Speed is up to 1,000mm/sec in x and y-axis, and up to 35cm of object growth per hour (z-axis).

Imagine!, a North American provider of large-scale POS displays and instore signage, will be a beta site for the Landa S10 Nanographic Printing Press, Landa’s single-sided B1 (41in/1,050mm) machine. It will be installed at Imagine!’s facility in Minneapolis, where it will be predominantly used for POP/POS display work and to create versioned print.

New from Canon is the Oce Arizona 2200 Series of UV flatbed printers – comprising the Oce Arizona 2260 and 2280.

Italian-based W2P specialist Pixartprinting has brought eight new printable natural fabrics to market, and is offering a print customisation service with a minimum run length of just 1m.

EFI is using its largest Drupa exhibit to date to show several new platforms and products. These include: 

Roland has released Fluorescent Pink and Fluorescent Yellow inks formulated for its Texart XT-640 and RT-640 wide-format dye-sublimation printers. They will be available in mid-July in a CMYKOrViFpFy configuration for the printers with ErgoSoft Roland Edition software Rip.

Bordeaux has released two new printer specific UV ink solutions - the Plasma HF and Plasma VG for the HP 500/700 series and for the Vutek GS series. The company said the products offer plug-and-print on the fly conversion and the ability to print on the most rigid and flexible substrates.

At Drupa German company IST Metz and UK subsidiary Integration Technology are showing a new UV LED curing system targeted at the wide-format graphics and direct-to-product digital industrial markets.

Adobe has introduced the fourth version of its PDF Print Engine (APPE 4). In this version, Tile Parallel Processing (TPP) brings the efficiencies of the Mercury Rip Architecture to wide-format printing.