News

Jon King of Story Worldwide will be one of the Two Sides/Print Power key speakers at the Autumn Seminar on Monday 4 November at Stationers Hall, London.

Ceres Media has restructured and split into two separate divisions: Natural AdCampaign Print will continue to focus on the large-format printing industry marketing various products under the NatureWoven and TierraFilm brands; and NAC Industrial Products will market new NatureFloor products into the construction and plumbing and heating markets.

Focussing on what it does best has been crucial to Print Monkey’s success – and it’s starting to show, as the young company, headed up by Lucy Ratcliffe, continues to secure new business with key clients. Her small team operate out of impressive modern premises in the Shropshire market town of Whitchurch and provide wide-format print services to customers in the North West and Midlands, making use of an enviable line up of printing, cutting and finishing hardware that includes a Mimaki JV5 wide format printer, a Mimaki CJV30-160 printer/cutter, a standalone Mimaki CG-160FX plotter and a laminator. A new Rollover flatbed laminator is soon to be added to the arsenal, ensuring a speedy response to outdoor durable jobs.

A further ten percent of the floorspace of the inaugural Fespa Eurasia show has been booked since it was announced at Fespa 2013 in London.

A DuPont LifeCycle Based Solutions programme means retailers can recycle entire Tyvek and Tyvek Vivia displays. To complete the lifecycle of the Tyvek products, DuPont has partnered with Waste Management in the US to create a recycling kit and programme that sees banners recycled and reprocessed into resin, which is then repurposed for a variety of uses.

Avery Dennison 777 Cast Film is now in stock at Spandex and ready for next day delivery. The new range of 100 coloured films offer conformability over rivets and corrugations, with up to eight years durability at a similar price level of a polymeric film.

How do people real use and interact with printed media in the digital age? That’s the theme of the PODi Europena AppForum in London on 25 September.

The latest BPIF ‘Printing Outlook’ report shows that activity within the UK print trade was more buoyant than expected during the second quarter of 2013. The July survey showed that whilst a majority of 53% of companies reported no change in demand levels more than a quarter (28%) said that the volume of domestic orders had improved. This outweighed a figure of 19% that suffered deterioration and also exceeded expectations from last quarter.

Recent FSC and PEFC confirmation certification in the UK of selected HP wide-format media has given resellers the opportunity to sell chain of custody certified HP wide-format media for the first time in the UK. ArtSystems can now provide these HP certified media with an unbroken chain of custody to resellers.

A new version of Adobe Creative Cloud (CC) lets creative teams buy membership of a single desktop application, such as Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC, InDesign CC or any of the entire collection of CC desktop applications.

printMax has added Metamark sign and digital media to its consumables offering. The company is a dealer for Roland, which uses Metamark media in its own product testing, so this alignment makes sense for both Metamark and printMax. To mark the move printMax is offering 15% off all first Metamark media orders throughout August.

‘Make me smile’ is the theme for the designmaker 2013 competition which will end in a winners’ presentation on 7 November at Viscom in Düsseldorf.

Oasis Graphic has taken delivery of a HP Z6200 printer to increase its aqueous ink print capacity. It joins the company’s two Canon aqueous ink machines.

This year’s Print Futures Awards, boosted by a £30,000 cash injection from The Printing Charity, attracted a record number of applications and winners. The 17 winners were presented with their awards at The Printing Charity’s reception for the industry hosted by Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde on 23 July at the House of Lords.