News

It’s official: the World Record for wrapping a Porsche Cayman is 70 minutes and 44 seconds, a time set by a team of six at the fourth Polish Car&Wrap Championship last week.

Neschen and UK distributor ArtSystems are teaming up at Fespa 2013 to debut a range of wall covering and retail display media.

Fire retardant Ultra Board Fire is to be officially introduced alongside new Ultra Board branding and website at Fespa 2013.

Walsall College, home of the Roland DG Academy, has been awarded an ‘Outstanding Grade’ following its recent Ofsted inspection. It is the first further education provider in the UK to receive the outstanding grading under Ofsted’s new inspection framework.

Baumann Maschinenbau, Bielomatik, Electronics for Imaging, Hewlett Packard, Leonhard Kurz Stiftung, Manroland Web Systems and Technotrans have joined the Drupa 2016 committee, a reflection of the changing face of print.

Eco-passport certification has been issued by Centexbel for Mimaki’s Sb300 series dye sublimation inks. This certification, which certifies compliance with the Oeko-Tex standard 100 and the Eco-passport certification system, assures users that inks will cause no harm when they come in contact with the skin.

Fespa 2013 will see Mimaki unveil the CG-SRIII Series plotters in Europe. The newly developed CG-SRIII series, with speeds of 70 - 100cm/s, are successor models to Mimaki’s CG-60SR and CG-100/130SRII. The new machines have a cutting pressure of 500g, significantly increasing the range of materials that can be used, and a doubled curve-cutting speed to make complicated cutting tasks much easier.

Durst has appointed Christoph Gamper as CEO and successor to Dr Richard Piock, who has been in charge of the group for more than 20 years, and instrumental in restructuring the company. He now becomes president of Durst.

Eastsign has developed two new machines for roll-to-roll and panel lamination; the BU-1600II Warm and BU-1400FA.

Van Son Premium wide-format inkjet inks will be launched by UK agent Ink&Print at Fespa 2013. The solvent and water-based inks are designed for use with Canon, Epson, Roland, Mimaki and HP printers.

Over 1,500 comments of support from Watford Football Club (nicknamed ‘The Hornets’) fans have been captured in a 4m x 1.3m banner produced for the playoff final with Crystal Palace on Monday 27 May. The messages were compiled over four days last week via Twitter, Facebook and the club’s official mailing list, with the subsequent banner produced in collaboration with audio and video-embedded print integration company Talking Print and printed by Watford-based Stylo Graphics.

The Forum of Private Business has pledged to help printers struggling with cashflow by issuing free copies of a new credit control package it has produced.

Kaye-Dee will present the high-speed Viper industrial digital printer at Fespa 2013. Developed by Bergstein Digital, this flatbed printer uses an ‘on the fly’ digital LED UV concept to print a bed of parts in 80 seconds.

The eighth annual PrintIT! Awards has taken place - at North Print and Pack in Harrogate. This year the entrants designed a wide variety of end products, from leaflets and shelf wobblers through to posters, mobiles, floor decals and aisle and storefront banners.