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Atlantic (APS), a specialist insurer to the print and sign industries, has introduced Business Secure, a range of commercial combined insurance programmes for small to medium size businesses in the sectors.

The EDP Awards, which reward printer and associated manufacturers for innovation in their research and design, will be presented at Drupa on 8 May. Only products launched into the print industry in the 12 months leading to 28 February 2012 will be considered with the winners chosen by an international panel of independent print and print software experts.  The shortlist will be announced in April and the winners announced at the awards ceremony during Drupa.

HP will use Fespa Digital for the first showing at a major international exhibition of its Designjet L28500 and HP Designjet L26500 latex printers.

Display specialist Octink has used Contra Vision Performance perforated window film from William Smith to produce a 30m2 see-through graphic to screen off essential refurbishment works to a high-end retail space opposite Harrods in London’s Knightsbridge.

The organisers of the inaugural Digital Print UK are asking what you would like to see at the new show which will take place at the NEC in September.

William Smith has added the HP Designjet L26500 and L28500 to its offering.

Hollywood Monster has become a supporter of Leading Ladies, the Birmingham Hippodrome’s networking group for women, and is sponsoring its next event ‘Beauty and The Beast’, part of the theatre’s attempts to raise over £1 million to create a new stage.

At Fespa Digial 3A Composites will present the Smart-X rigid substrate in a 2m width for the first time.

A team of Fespa staff will embark on the second Wrap Rally journey on 12 February, this time from London to Barcelona. Travelling in a wrapped motorhome, Richard Kensett, Rob Older and Chris Rimer will cover over 2,400km visiting 11 cites and four countries in seven days seeking out the best examples of innovative digital print technologies and applications.

Wide-format technical support and spares specialist Tech8 has introduced a pay-as-you-go service and support package for owners of large-format digital printers.

EFI is to market Cretaprint ceramic tile inkjet printing machines to its existing large-format customer base to allow them to diversify into ceramic time printing as well as targeting industrial scale operations according to its VP marketing, inkjet solutions, Ken Hanulec.

Fast Signs Gloucester has bought a HP DesignJet L25500 printer from Perfect Colours to improve its productivity and expand its ‘green’ product offering.

As the result of a joint venture between Freudenberg Evolon and Kernow Coatings, Evolon by Hydrosol and Evolon by HydroJet PVC-free textile substrates are now available in the UK from Amari Digital Supplies. They have been developed for two primary digital printing technologies, with the former designed for use with solvent, eco-solvent and UVC and latex inks and the latter designed for aqueous-based inks.

Yasushi Katsuta has been appointed new business development manager for Oxfordshire-based Integration Technology as it prepares to open its first office in Tokyo in March.