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US-based finishing equipment supplier Foster has brought to market a roll lifter for handling wide or heavy media rolls, particularly those used with grand- and wide-format printers. The Low Profile On-a-Roll Lifter handles media rolls up to 300kg and up to 5m wide. Foster, a HP partner, sees it as a companion to HP Latex 3000, 3100, and 3500 series printers in particular. The new lifter is available through HP dealers worldwide.

Imprint MIS has appointed former Woodford Litho man Mike Wren as customer support co-ordinator.

Colourgen increased revenue by 20% in the financial year ending June 2015, with all the brands it represents benefiting from growth, the most significant being laminator sales of Kala and Seal products which rose 124%.

Tharstern has rebranded and got rid of specific-name modules for its MIS offering. Now the modules will just be known as Tharstern ‘estimating’, ‘scheduling’ or ‘CRM’. The Primo Live app will be referred to as ‘the Tharstern app’.

HP has overhauled its annual Dscoop user event for 2016 and announced Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and ABC’s Shark Tank Kevin O’Leary as keynote speakers. The company is also calling for other speakers for the conference, which will take place in Texas, 14 – 16 April.

To gain free entry to Fespa Digital 2016 in Amsterdam next March you will need a promotional code. You can pre-register at www.fespadigital.com and using code ADOZ0701.

A new Ultra Black has been added to the Sensient Xennia Amethyst range of digital textile inks for printing cotton and viscose textiles.

Spandex has appointed NCS Trade Signs as an approved Sign Systems Centre. The network manufactures and delivers Spandex’s sign systems in extruded aluminium.

The first Ricoh branded 3D printer will be showcased at the formnext exhibition in Frankfurt this month and made available to European customers by mid-2016. Up until now Ricoh - which set-up its Additive Manufacturing Business (AM Business) in September last year - has been selling third-party 3D printers.

The SAi Cloud mobile app has been updated and now includes smartwatch support and an informative production trends dashboard – understood to be the first of its kind for wide-format Rip software.

For the first time, the print, paper and packaging industries will be represented at the Skills Show at the NEC, 19 -21 November.

Graphic Printing Technologies (GPT) is to distribute Intercoat's monomeric and polymeric digital print vinyls and Protec protection films in the UK, with a particular focus on Mimaki and HP customers.

The Sawgrass VJ 628 printer has been named ‘2015 Roll-to-Roll Dye Sublimation on Metal Product of the Year’ by the Specialty Graphics and Imaging Association (SGIA). SubliJet-HD sublimation inks for Sawgrass VJ 628 printers won in the ‘Roll-to-Roll Dye Sublimation on Metal for Ink’ category, and its SubliJet-HD sublimation inks for Virtuoso SG800 printers won in the digital inks category.

3M’s next generation of environmentally friendly wrap media, Envision 480 Print Wrap Film, is set to outperform even some of 3M’s own industry favourites according to the company.