News

The Shop and Display Equipment Association has elected as its president Alan Pegram, managing director of Global Displays. Bob Garton of Glencourt Associates becomes vice president.

Rolandprintstudio, a new Rip and print management software for Mac OS X, has been introduced by Roland across Europe. Available for use with Roland printers, printer/cutters and standalone cutters, it will be in action at Fespa 2015 next week. At the heart of the Rolandprintstudio software is the Adobe PDF Print Engine, which renders artwork using native Adobe functionality. With 64bit processing capabilities, it is able to maximise the available operating system resources and deliver high Rip speeds.

Papergraphics has become a partner for Canon UK, a move that sees it offering Canon’s aqueous large-format printers to the UK market as it extends its reach into the hardware and software sectors. The news follows the recent appointment of the Paperlinx UK digital solutions team, which joined Papergraphics in April - Paperlinx UK was formerly a reseller for Canon.

Vink Holdings has acquired the assets of PaperlinX Visual Technology Solutions (VTS) business in the UK. The new business is trading as Europoint - a company brand from a few years ago - and will be led by Frank Moran as managing director.

Sensient Technologies Corporation has reached an agreement to acquire the assets of Xennia Technology, the UK manufacturer of specialty inks used in digital printing.

Lutterworth-based Blink Print has bought an Agfa Anapurna M2050i 2.05m six-colour printer.

Over the past four years, since the company bought an Agfa Anapurna Mw, the business has almost doubled and now has a turnover approaching £1m.

Felix Schoeller is expanding its product portfolio to include sublimation papers. This represents a move into a new product segment for the specialty paper manufacturer, which has extensive development, product and technology expertise – including in papers for inkjet and electrophotographic imaging processes.

An expanded range of tools is available for the Kongsberg XN, V and XL series of digital finishing systems. These include:

- A Psaligraphy knife tool that cuts out the finest details in paper and folding carton.

All new Fastsigns stores will have a Kala Mistral 1650 with LED lights and antistatic wire in their starting franchise package. These will be supplied and installed by Kala's UK distributor, Colourgen.

A ‘Print and Pay’ Station using Epson technology has been opened within Calumet’s flagship store in London’s Drummond Street.

At Fespa 2015 Drytac Europe will show its new Spot-On film with dot adhesive, alongside the expanded ranges of its ReTac permanently peelable films announced in March and Polar printable films announced in April.

Sabur Digital, the Barnsley-based digital textile and sublimation printing specialist, is to sell the Roland VersaCamm SP-i and VersaCamm VS-i ranges of eco-solvent wide-format printers.

Spandex has appointed Camiel Bosma to the dual roles of group vice president, and general manager, Netherlands, with immediate effect. He will be based at the Spandex Netherlands offices in Veenendaal.

A roll-to-roll system has been developed for the flatbed 3.2m Truepress Jet W3200UV. The new system, capable of printing onto sheet and roll substrates at 150m2/hr, will make its global debut at Fespa 2015.