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Membership-based peer to peer online group Uksignboards.com, has named printMax as its recommended large-format printer partner. Uksignboards.com owner Robert Lambi said: “I have chosen them as I know they will do a great job and provide the best products for our group.  I am simply connecting the right suppliers to the right customers and vice versa.”

Drupa has renewed its co-operation with the Media Mundo industrial action group. As in 2011 and 2012, it will act as partner of the 5th Media Mundo congress on 17 November (discussion in the evening before the event) and 18 November, 2014 (all day) in Düsseldorf.

Viscom is looking for creative design ideas to be realised on as many advertising carriers as possible in its search for ‘designmaker 1014’. Following the motto ‘Design meets feasibility’, signmakers, graphic arts companies and advertising agencies are all being called upon to give free reign to their creativity on the Viscom theme ‘colour my life’ by the closing date of 31 August.

EFI has announced worldwide availability of Fiery proServer Version 6, designed for EFI Vutek printers and debuted at Fespa Digital earlier this year. It features the Fiery Accelerated System Technology (FAST) Rip - said to process PDF files up to seven times faster than before - and a colour management workflow supporting Fogra PSD Print Check (compatible with more than 540 printers from various manufacturers).

Hammerer Planen is an Austrian family business with 18 employees across two locations. The company specialises in producing and delivering premium customised tarpaulin solutions, which include vehicle covers, leisure and circus tents, pool covers, crash protection for ski slopes, technical hose covers and bespoke membrane constructions for architects. The company’s customer base comprise the industrial, commercial and leisure markets, with the majority based in German-speaking countries, Norway, United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia.

Graphic Station has been busy breaking in a Mimaki JFX200-2513 LED UV wide-format printer after its installation by i-Sub Digital this month, following its lightning-speed purchase of the first JFX200-2513 in Europe at Sign and Digital UK 2014 in April.

Perspex Distribution Limited (PDL) managing director Keith Piggott has also been appointed general manager for the European sheet and composites business at parent company Lucite International.

When the famous Pantheon building in Paris was being restored in June 2014, the outdoor advertising cooperation JCDecaux Advertising and the Parisian municipal team in charge of events developed and installed more than 3000 m² of canvas both on the inside and on the outside of the building.

Nottingham-based graphics company John E Wright has replaced its ten-year-old PN L-2500 machine with a G3 XL-3200 system from Zund to increase its efficiency and capacity.

Sign and Digital UK 2014 attracted 6,115 visitors when it was held at the NEC, Birmingham on 29 April - 1 May this year, an 8% increase on last time.

Atech has installed its first LED budget Bobis table at Envision Media in Skelmersdale.

The management and staff of M Partners, the Surrey-based printing and large-format equipment distributor, spent Sunday 27 July on the edges of their sofa seats with the Commonwealth Games shooting competition in full swing as England double-trap shooting star Steve Scott, sponsored by M Partners, hit a maximum 30/30 clays in the gold medal match.

LumeJet is to visit 10 Downing Street today (31 July) having been selected as one of the most promising digital companies in the UK. At what is called the Pitch 10 event, it will showcase its inkless printing technology alongside another nine businesses chosen by an independent panel of advisors representing Britain’s digital sector.

Following the purchase of the Ilford trademarks and associated assets by a partnership between Chugai Photo Chemical Co. of Tokyo and CR Kennedy of Melbourne, plans are being finalised for a worldwide re-launch of the Ilford inkjet media range.