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Simon Harrop, CEO of Brand Sense Academy is the first speaker to be named for this year’s Power of Print Seminar, which will take place at Stationers' Hall in London on 3 November. Another nine speakers will join him during the day programme and be followed by an evening speaker at a special dinner.

The Shop and Display Equipment Association (SDEA) has published a new guide to the shopfitting and display industry - the SDEA Retail Display Directory 2015/2016, which lists over 100 designers, manufacturers and suppliers of specialist retail display products and services.

The ISO TC130 committee that sets global standards for the graphic arts has adopted the X-Rite Color Exchange Format version 3 (CxF3) as the new standard (ISO 17972-1:2015) for colour data exchange and verification.

A new MSc Management programme has been announced by the BPIF that will be delivered by the Management Development Centre (MDC) and awarded by the University of South Wales.

Willow Graphics has won the ‘Creative Use of a Substrate’ award at The Print, Design and Marketing Awards for its work for the Icebar in London.

Antalis has signed an exclusive agreement for the UK distribution of pretex, a synthetically impregnated paper manufactured by Neenah Lahnstein.

Avery Dennison is sponsoring of Team LottoNL-Jumbo cycling team for the next two seasons. Among many races worldwide, the team will be entering the Tour de France. 

Canon is introducing a revamped version of its Business and Innovation Scan for the graphic arts market, which now features market trend analysis in an extended range of application areas including wide-format.

PDF preflight, correction and editing solutions company Enfocus has announced a technology partnership with e-Cervo. It means the latter will include PitStop as an embedded component of CervoPrint, its flagship Web-to-print solution. Available as an option in its current version CervoPrint Gen4, PitStop will be included as a standard functionality in the upcoming new CervoPrint generation that is to be released towards the end of this year.

Kiss Lajos from Hungary has retained his title of Fespa World Wrap Master for the second year running. Marco Dittl from Germany and Jeremy Gayet from France, took second and third place, respectively.

Kall Kwik Oxford has captured 7,744kg of carbon dioxide since director Christine Herbert took part in a carbon capture tree planting day in Heartwood Forest with woodland conservation charity the Woodland Trust earlier this year.

Sun Chemical is extending its new low odour chemistry platform with its Streamline ESL 2 series of inks. These Streamline ESL 2 inks, which are fully colour matched for the latest Roland Pro4 generation of eco-solvent printers, will be available later in 2015. Details to follow.

Tickets are now available for a seminar on the Power of Print co-ordinated by Two Sides and Print Power with the BPIF and The Stationers' Livery Company. It will take place on Tuesday 3 November 2015, at Stationers' Hall in London, from 10am - 5.30pm.

i-Sub is the first Mimaki distributor to install the new Mimaki CFL605RT flatbed cutter in its showroom, enabling real-time demonstrations of the system in conjunction with i-Sub's Digi-Foil digital foiling solution, incorporating the Mimaki UJF-6042 desktop printer.