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Fespa has announced the shortlisted entries for its 2014 awards and is now asking you to vote for your favourite to win People’s Choice of the Year. Voting for the Fespa Hall of Fame Printer of the Year is also open.

Sports event signage company Wingate Signs has bought a Roland LEJ-640 flatbed and extended floorspace at its Prestwich premises with the help of a £42,000 funding injection from asset finance specialist Academy Leasing.

The Wimbledon Print Company used Ipex 2014 to finalise a deal with M Partners Wide for a Canon iPF825 44in printer.

Newly released CorelDraw Graphics Suite X7 has a redesigned and highly customisable user interface to increase productivity during the various stages of the design process.

Sappi Europe has won the Antalis Supplier Excellence Award 2013 for the second year in succession.

IGS Digital is to sell the Croatian-made Azon Q UV inkjet printers in the UK. The company is exhibiting the machine at Ipex this week.

Konica Minolta is using Ipex to demonstrate how its KM-1 B2+ UV inkjet colour press can be used to exploit short-run packaging markets and to convince commercial printers to expand their print applications with larger sheet sizes for posters, point-of-purchase graphics, etc.

At the recent Royal Academy Schools annual Premium Interim Projects exhibition, a number of students displayed work produced using large-format printers and projectors at the RA’s on-site Epson sponsored Digital Media Suite.

A new guide called 'Do PDF/VT Right: How to make problem-free PDF files for variable data printing' has been put together for anyone with a stake in VDP: graphic designers, print buyers, production managers, press operators, owners of PSPs, and digital press DFE developers.

Spandex has become a master distributor for 3M Architectural Markets and now stocks more than 500 DI-NOC products.

Screen has signed an agreement with the French company TagG Informatique (TagG) to release a fully native IPDS controller for its Truepress Jet520 printers.

In celebration of its ten years in business, Signs Express (Sheffield) owners Steve and Carol Morris are running a competition for the local community to win roller banners.

Fujifilm has a new thermo forming UV-cured inkjet ink, called Uvijet KV, aimed at light industrial applications. It has been developed specifically for use with the company’s mid-range flatbed printers, the Acuity Advance Select and Acuity Advance Select HS.

The BPIF has said this year’s Budget is a good one for manufacturers, adding: “Together with other leading trade associations, we argued the case for reducing the rising cost of energy and the Chancellor has responded with a £7bn support package. We have also stressed the need to strengthen the competiveness of UK businesses and this too has been recognised, with other measures announced to boost investment, exports and skills.”