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Mutoh has added the DrafStation RJ-900XG to its dye-sublimation printer line-up. The 42in-wide CMYK machine offers typical production speeds from 5 - 18.5m²/h and can handle 2in and 3in core rolls of transfer papers up to 95gsm.

Paper and packaging merchant Antalis will join organisations committed to the environmental cause in supporting Cap COP 21, a series of events to help protect the environment. The initiative, organised in the run up to the United Nations Framework convention on Climate Change conference (COP 21), includes meetings, informative events and discussion forums which will be held in the run-up to the main conference, which will take place in Paris, France in December 2015.

On the morning of 19 May Print Power will host a session at the Prima conference in Graz, Austria, which focuses on the power of print to deliver high returns of investment to brand owners and ensure print's place in multi-media campaigns.

The Visual Media Conference (VMC) 2015 saw 135 delegates, prompting Robert McClements, CEO of organiser CDi Yorkshire, to say: “The conference reinforces the message that the region is serious about the role of the creative and digital sector. We intend to continue to send out that message, nationally and internationally.”

Color-Logic Color-Logic has released a video that shows how its Process Metallic Color System, when used with XMPie, permits graphic designers to automatically produce the white ink masks necessary for printing variable information on metallic substrates using digital presses.  Go to: http://ow.ly/L6yIP

Enfocus has established a new subscription model for PitStop Pro 13, which will be released mid-April. It will continue to offer the PitStop Pro license key option to those who prefer capital expenditure over operational expenditure.

The Seiko Instruments ColorPainter M-64s and SX 3M ink is now available in EMEA with 3M MCS warranty that guarantees the performance of finished graphics.

CMA Imaging’s Colorcloud colour standardisation software has been used for the Fespa Print Inspiration Rally project that sees a US school bus transformed into a showcase of digitally produced wide-format print to illustrate the sector’s creative capability to designers etc. Its next outing will be at Fespa 2015 in Cologne in May. Colorcloud standardised colour output of the project’s different print applications, prepared by its participating partners (from printed blinds, customised laminate flooring to LED printed wall paper).

Contra Vision is sponsoring the ‘Everybody Razzle Dazzle Mersey Ferry 2015’. Its one-way vision window film, printed by Times Square, has been applied to the windows of the ferry to create a design by pop artist Sir Peter Blake in a joint commission from Liverpool Biennial, 14-18 Now: The First World War Centenary Art Commissions and Tate Liverpool.

Agfa will use the ISA trade show in Las Vegas next week to show the mid-end wide-format Anapurna M3200i RTR with a high-density white option – the Anapurna M3200i W. This can print white underneath colour, on top of colour or colour/white/colour.

Brett Newman has replaced Jerry Davies as managing director of Roland DG, UK & Ireland. Davies, after 14 years in the role, has been promoted to managing director of Roland DG EMEA.

Sawgrass Technologies and J-Teck3 of Italy have entered into a new long term license agreement under which J-Teck3, as an authorised Sawgrass licensee, will continue to sell digital inks for large-format printers.?

Organiser of the inaugural The Print Show has revealed the event’s first floorplan and will continually update in online at http://www.theprintshow.com/downloads/floorplan.pdf.

The second ‘Drupa Global Trends’ report, tracking key economic and market developments in the global print industry, is now available for 249 Euro.