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HP has introduced an open membership scheme for its Dscoop EMEA, coinciding with the announcement of the programme’s new chairman, Julian Marsh of Harrier LLC.

Tickets for Drupa 2016 (31 May to 10 June 2016) will be available online from 2 January 2016. Provided as e-tickets, they will offer a dual purpose: to save time and money. Visitors can buy the tickets online (at www.drupa.de) and print them or download as a code and then travel to the show free of charge by bus and train.

Quality Print Services (QPS) has agreed its largest ever stand for Sign and Digital UK, taking 72sqm at the show which will run 19 – 21 April 2016.

A new ImagePerfect Materials Guide has been introduced by Spandex UK. It shows all digital and signage products, as well as 30 new ‘speciality’ products designed to open up new and lucrative markets for sign makers and graphics producers.

A new app called the Antalis DocuCloud contains all of the company’s latest product literature. Available to download for free it’s available for iPhone/iPad, Android devices and Windows tablets/phones and PC’s running Windows 10.

EFI has upgraded its Fiery software and Fiery proServer digital front ends for wide- and superwide-format production inkjet printing. The new versions are said to include “major improvements” in processing speeds for EFI Vutek printers - allowing users to achieving average speed improvements of over 60% compared to previous versions.

Agfa Graphics has played a key part in the restoration of The Byodo-in Buddhist temple near Kyoto in Japan. The most famous part of Japanese National Treasure and World Heritage Site, and the only remaining original building, is the Phoenix Hall (Hoo-do) constructed in 1053. It’s the imagery and colours on the west doors to this that Agfa has restored.

Brett Martin, a manufacturer of specialist plastic products, has partnered with Europoint for the distribution of its new Marpet-g FS PETg and Marpet-a FS aPET substrates to printers and fabricators.

Sepialine, a US-based print management software company, has finalised an agreement to acquire local software company Technesis, and revealed its intentions to expand its presence in the UK, where it currently has a facility in London’s Docklands.

The Christmas Carol Service for Printers, hosted by the BPIF, The Printing Charity, Stationers and Newspaper Makers Company and Trade Union Unite, will take place at 6pm on 8 December 2015 at St Bride's Church, Fleet Street, in London.

Now available from Hexis UK is a new range of premium polymeric coloured sign vinyl. The Suptac S5000 Series, available in more than 100 hues, is an opaque European-grade 100% polymeric PVC vinyl with a very high gloss finish.

Xaar has been awarded ‘Manufacturing Site of the Year’ for the second time in three years by the National Microelectronics Institute (NMI).

The Tarsus Group is to run two new B2B events for the additive manufacturing industry (commonly referred to as 3D printing) in 2016. Additive Manufacturing Europe and Additive Manufacturing Americas will focus on the fastest growing vertical sectors – healthcare, aerospace and automotive. Tarsus already runs several shows in these sectors, the most prominent of which are the Dubai Airshow (aerospace), AAITF (automotive) and A4M (medical).

Two Sides has said that 168 of the 240 companies it identified as using misleading greenwash statements in their marketing and communications activities have now removed the offending comments as a direct result of its ongoing lobbying initiative.