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HRH The Duke of York will be the guest of honour at The Printing Charity’s 186th Annual Luncheon on Thursday 7 November 2013 at Stationers’ Hall, London. His Royal Highness has very kindly agreed to say a few words at the event.

Signs Express Coventry specialises in vehicle graphics, interior and exterior signage, banners, window graphics, exhibition and display graphics, labels and stickers and DDA-compliant health and safety signage.

Owners of solvent printers are being invited to trade them in for a Mimaki CJV30-130, CJV30-160, JV33-130 or JV33-160 before 31 December 2013 to qualify for the special offer from i-Sub. Those that trade in an old solvent machine in the timeframe and get the new machine installed by 31 January, will get a three-year Gold Warranty – an additional twelve months on top of i-Sub Digital's standard package – and £1,800 worth of ink.

UV solutions developer Integration Technology (ITL) and strategic partner IST Metz (IST) are embarking on a resource sharing programme to expand market support in North America. ITL is to relocate its local office and operations to IST's facility at Bolingbroke, Illinois.

Quality Print Services (QPS) is reminding wide-format print businesses that sign up to Nazdar's free ink campaign that they will be eligible for the QPS cartridge recycling scheme when they become regular customers.

Wallpaper manufacturer The Surface Print Company has bought a HP LX3000 and a HP LX260 printer, bringing digital printing to the fore at their family run company.

Kodak Matchprint Inkjet Proofing Media has gone through the PEFC certification process.

Fespa has expanded the roles of Michael Ryan and James Ford, naming the two group exhibition managers and reflecting the organisation’s ambitious global expansion plans.

Hollywood Monster has bought a 3.2m wide MTEX 5032 direct to textile printer with in-built fixation. So excited was the Birmingham operation that it shot a video of the printer being delivered to site by Portuguese manufacturer POD Iberia distributor Digital Print Innovations (DPI).

Cross Media 2013 last week saw a 12% increase in visitor numbers compared to the inaugural show in 2012. Over 2,750 marketers, printers, publishers, brands and creative agencies attended the two-day event at the Business Design Centre in London, and the five theatres - Cross Media, Digital and Direct Marketing, Content Marketing and Publishing Strategies, Print and Innovation and Mobile Marketing – often had standing room only during the 50 seminars on offer. Next year the event will move to the autumn - 21 to 22 October.

21 of this year’s SGIA Golden Image Awards have been given for graphics produced on Roland printers. The competition allows digital print providers to show off their best achievements and hundreds of entries were evaluated by a team of imaging professionals, who awarded gold, silver and bronze ribbons for the best prints. The following businesses took top honours for work produced with Roland large-format printers:

The Printing Charity has received a donation of the remaining charitable funds from the John Crosfield Foundation which is being wound up. The Printing Charity will continue to administer the funds to provide grants to students undertaking courses related to printing technology and printing business management.

Amari has introduced Green Cast for in-store display graphics. The media is manufactured from 100% recycled acrylic materials collected from northern Italy and southern Germany by licensed recycling companies. It is transported to the Madreperla plant in Italy in 20 tonne loads, and is then cleaned, sorted and put through a patented process that breaks down the material into its constituent components from which are made the fresh acrylic sheets.

As part of its strategy to expand its wide-format division Perfect Colours has appointed former GMG UK man Simon Landau as graphics and colour director. Following the move GMG UK has appointed Perfect Colours master reseller for GMG ProductionSuite, its wide-format production workflow.