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Enfocus Switch has announced Connect Send 11 that lets printers streamline and automate file delivery from their customers. It allows printers to give their customers everything they need to submit files without requiring them to remember FTP addresses, website locations or log-on credentials.

Italian Web-to-print giant Pixartprinting has consolidated its relationship with Durst by taking a Rhotex inkjet printer for industrial soft signage applications.

New from Roland is the VersaCamm VS-i wide-format print-and-cut series that comprises the 64in VS-640i, the 54in VS-540i, and the 30in VS-300i. The machines, which have print speeds of up to 26.9m2/hr in high production print modes and offer integrated contour cutting, use Eco-Sol Max2 inks available in nine colours (CMYKLcLm, White, Metallic Silver and Light Black). Other notable enhancements include front-loading ink cartridges, and the ability to adjust cut settings during operation.

Fosco Hayes and Hurdley in Birmingham has become the first print provider in Europe to install the orange ink option on one of its HP Scitex FB7600 printers.

Vögeli in Switzerland has bought a Screen Truepress JetSX B2 sheet-fed digital press that will be installed at its production facility in Langnau in the next few months.

All Print Supplies has appointed Nathan Burnett as national ink sales manager. As such he will be responsible for managing APS’s new specialist inks division as well as nationwide sales of Nazdar’s compatible inks.

Neschen has introduced two more widths of its self-adhesive PVC digital print medium solvoprint easy dot 100. The clear and matt versions of the event film are now available in widths of 106.7cm and 155cm. The 137.2cm-width version of the 50m-long rolls is still available.

i-Sub will host an open day at Mimaki distributor Hybrid in Crewe on 16-17 October.

Signmaster Systems is holding an open house on 2 - 3 October at its showroom in Whitchurch, North Shropshire.

X-Rite Pantone and Sun Chemical have made it easier for smaller printers to access PantoneLive libraries.

Roland will use the Print Efficiently 2013 event, which kicks off tomorrow (1 October), to demonstrate how its wide-format tools can help commercial printers diversify and grow their business with high value, high margin products.

Epson president Minoru Usui has announced PrecisonCore, an inkjet printing technology that he says extends the company’s thin-film piezo (TFP) technology - currently used in its large-format printers - to deliver industrial and business printing solutions with superior colour, print quality, and output durability on the widest range of media for everything from business documents, to signage, to commercial labels, packaging, and textiles.

Imaginative direct mail pieces have been sent to 2,200 UK brand owners and media decision makers as part of a European initiative by Print Power to demonstrate the high degree of response which can be obtained with creative, sensory, direct mail.

Epson has produced more than 50 64in-wide prints for a major RNLI sea rescue photography exhibition titled ‘The Lifeboat: Courage on our Coasts’, which will be visiting major cities in the UK and Ireland over five months starting this month.