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Perfect Colours will be offering either a free vehicle wrapping training seminar or £500 worth of free media to anyone buying a new HP Designjet L26500 or HP Designjet L28500 latex printer during June and July 2012.

Enfocus has entered into a technology partnership with GamSys, a developer of MIS solutions for the printing, packaging and publishing industries. Under the agreement, GamSys will integrate Enfocus’ latest PitStop 11 'Smart Preflight and Correction' functionality into its PartnerWeb Configuration and PartnerWeb Publication Web-to-print solutions.

HP will showcase a range of large-format printers for the first time in Scotland at an Open House on 20 – 21 June at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.

Your Print Solution in High Wycombe has bought a HP Designjet L26500 from CWE Solutions to improve turnaround times. The company has also bought and GMG Production Suite to help it maintain consistency between projects.

Icon Prolab, the Middle East division of Icon, has been awarded a long-term wayfinding consultancy role with Dubai Airports. Initial work started in the autumn of 2011 and the contract is expected to run through to 2014.  The awarding of the contract coincides with the appointment of Tim Woodstock as head of wayfinding for Icon's Middle East team.

Fespa UK Association (previously Prism) will hold its next Think Tank at the Ritz in London on Thursday 21 June. One of the main topics of discussion shall be Intellectual Property Rights, with a presentation, discussion and Q&A by IP lawyer Richard Gallefant.

A HP Scitex FB7500 industrial press has been used by Leicester-based Greenshires to print special-edition Iron Maiden ‘Ed Til I'm Dead’ drum wraps for Premier Music International. Using the machine’s POP34 mode for close-view applications, the company produced 500 sets of 11 drum wraps, totalling approximately 1000m² of print, in about five working days.

A new InfoTrends study entitled ‘Capturing the European SMB Marketing Automation Opportunity’ aims to help guide the evolution of SMB solution offerings specifically for the European marketplace.

The Forum of Private Business is responding to a report from Professor Russel Griggs, on behalf of the British Bankers Association (BBA), which shows that the banks’ new appeals process has overturned 39.5% of rejected lending decisions in its first year of operation.

ArtSystems has passed another milestone in its quality management accreditation programme. Having been ISO 9001:2008 accredited since the 1990’s for its sales and delivery processes, the company took a decision to review and extend the range of the quality accreditation to include the technical services operations.

To mark the silver anniversary of Bex Design, managing director Ian Board and his colleague Mel Rowden will walk 97 miles from Yatton, Keynell, a small village near the company’s office, to Hyde Park Corner in London, in aid of Wiltshire Air Ambulance. The pair will leave on Friday 1 June and plan to arrive in London on Monday 4 June.

Hollywood Monster, which is forecasting a £1m increase in turnover this year to £6.5m, has created a new digital print sales team following heavy investment in its digital division.

Leeds-based sign and display graphics company WAE has bought an Agfa Jeti 3312 roll-to-roll wide-format printer to cope with extra demand created by a new nationwide retail display contract.

Planet Positive has partnered with CloudApps to help drive its sustainability certification process through an online system. The move means the Planet Positive Business Certification can be achieved in less than two weeks.