News

Sun Chemical has introduced the Streamline ESL HPQ and the Streamline Ultima HPQ inks range for use with wide- and superwide-format solvent printers.

The BAPC’s 2012 conference, themed Focus on Success, will take place on 21 – 22 September at The Holiday Inn hotel in Elstree, Herts.

The postponed inaugural Digital Print UK show will now take place 5 - 7 November 2013 at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham.

Viscom will host a ‘World of Inspiration’ special display area that will pull all the threads of visual communication together, whether it is outdoor advertising, digital printing, POS or digital signage. Applications and examples of best practices will be displayed, presentations given and theme discussions offered. At its core will be a 300m2 supermarket which, in cooperation with Wanzl Metallwarenfabrik, will illustrate POS marketing options and trends in store design.

Caldera will launch a carbon footprint calculator dedicated to the wide-format printing industry at EcoPrint in Berlin this September. CostView 3.0 is a redesigned and upgraded version of the company’s cost visualization software for wide-format printers. It has a new design and new features that include a module for carbon footprint monitoring.

Antalis McNaughton’s sign and display division has appointed Michael Crook as product manager, based at the company’s head office in Leicestershire.

Sappi has become education partner for EcoPrint 2012 to reflect its commitment to sustainable production and regeneration.

EcoPrint Europe 2012 has become an associate member of Verdigris, the environmental initiative from graphic arts research group Digital Dots.

One in three companies in the UK commercial printing industry is making a loss as economic conditions continue to take their toll. The new ‘Plimsoll Analysis - Commercial Printing’ reveals how many of 356 loss making companies have simply had an isolated bad year and how many are burying their heads in the sand.

Event production specialist GT Marketing Services (GTMS) and design and build company RS Sets have merged.

Selectech, the supplier of ink, media and accessories to the professional wide-format sign and display print market, has appointed Kate Channon to the newly created position of customer services manager.

www.printdiscount.co.uk, the narrow and wide-format print subsidiary of Granthams, has just taken delivery of a KIP C7800, the full-colour high-production wide-format print system introduced this spring.

London-based value-added reseller of wide-format digital printing solutions, Perfect Colours, has been appointed a UK distribution partner for the JetMaster display system.

Neschen’s digital fleece Erfurt wallpaper CA is now available for water-based print systems as well as for (eco) solvent, latex and UV-cured inks.