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Linda Riordan MP has officially opened Retail Print, the latest business venture from retail display business Retail Services which has invested £500,000 in a SwissQPrint Impala flatbed UV printer and Kongsberg i-XP44 digital router for a purpose built production facility in Halifax.

Robert Horne managing director Paul French is leaving to become CEO of Metamark, a position he takes up in October. He will assume total responsibility for the company and is tasked with driving its strategic goals in pursuit of further sales and volume growth, geographical expansion and new product development and introductions.

Antalis McNaughton is now stocking Nu Stone, an environmentally friendly alternative to plastic. Made from 80% chalk, Nu Stone is non-toxic, waterproof, oil and greaseproof and tear resistant aimed at indoor and outdoor POS posters, banners, brochures, maps, leaflets, shelf talkers and two-way decals.

Wide-format will be one of four focus areas within the new Digital Print UK show which will now take place next year.

Derwent Displays of Denby, Derbyshire, UK, has bought an HP Scitex FB7600 industrial press to increase productivity of POS display units and to extend its product portfolio.

Inprinta, a manufacturer of filters, spare parts and inks for inkjet equipment, has launched a new capsule filter, Microprint, for both solvent and UV ink applications in the superwide graphics inkjet market.

Esko’s i-cut Suite has won a 2012 Printing Industries of America InterTech Technology Award – the sixth InterTech award Esko has received in the past ten years.

EFI has developed a new certification training programme for its Fiery digital print servers, tools, and software options.

HP will display products from HP DesignJet printer portfolio as well as Indigo machines at the professional photo show Photokina in Germany this September. It will use its show presence to demonstrating the latest techniques available using HP inks, substrates and print technologies.

William Smith is now offering a new wrapping overlaminate from Arlon that is designed to achieve greater conformability.

Hollywood Monster has appointed a new marketing and sales support manager to help raise its profile within new target sectors. The move comes on the heels of a forecasted £1m increase in turnover this year to £6.5m, and the recent creation of a new digital print sales team following heavy investment in its digital division.

Canon has launched two 36in-wide imagePrograf printers with optional MFP capabilities. The new imagePrograf iPF760 and iPF765 produce colour posters and large technical documents and both machines include software utilities for users in the retail signage industry, as well as general office environments.

Your Print Solution has invested in GMG’s ProductionSuite to support expansion of its business into wide-format production. The six-year-old digital print specialist is initially using ProductionSuite to drive a new 60in HP DesignJet L26500 printer, complementing an existing Epson Stylus Pro 9600 44in printer.

The Printing Charity, a national UK charity for people in printing, publishing, graphic arts and the allied trades, has announced it is launching two major initiatives in its drive to increase the number of people it helps.