Image Reports
Supporting the wide-format digital print sector
More than three quarters of available floor space at Fespa Digital 2012 in Barcelona next February 2012 has been booked. Over 200 individual exhibitors are confirmed and Fespa expects the final line-up to include over 350 principal exhibitors.
The Forum of Private Business, Wanobe.com and The Business Woman’s Network have joined forces to campaign for a ‘micro business day’ dedicated to recognising the economic importance of UK firms employing fewer than 10 staff.
Qwerty, a supplier of POS materials to the FMCG marketplace, has bought a Zünd G3 flatbed cutter to enable it to bring all print finishing in-house.
Clarity Marketing, a trading division of Clarity Software, is a new cloud-based marketing system (www.clarity-marketing.com) which is available to anyone, regardless of whether they have a Clarity MIS system installed.
Hollywood Monster and Pyramid Display Materials have joined forces under a new eco-friendly initiative. The Pyramid Recycling Initiative means hundreds of tons of waste, including PVC, acrylic, polypropylene, aluminium composite and polycarbonate, which may otherwise have been sent to landfill, will instead be recycled.
Fujifilm has announced the commercial availability of its cloud-based web-to-print solution XMF Print Centre. Utilising its expertise in cloud-based printing from within its web-to-print photo business, which last year processed over 5m orders, the company has tailored this solution for the print industry. It aims to help printers extend the print services they offer across both offset and digital production as more business moves online.
Signs Express (Slough) has gone with Tech8 to provide cover for the Mimaki JV3 wide-format digital printer on which it produces all its printed output. The move allows it to take advantage of cost savings that it expects to be realised by switching to alternative inks.
Large-format inkjet print using latex inks is now possible with the Avery MPI 1900 self-adhesive cast films range from Avery Dennison.
Zund and Forsstrom, a Swedish manufacturer of high-frequency welding equipment, have forged a global co-operation strategy.
Printers have until 31 July 2012 to enter the second Inca Digital Excellence Awards (Ideas 2012) which has extended categories this time around to reflect the broad array of products that Inca customers can create.
A HP ePrint and Share mobile application for the iPhone, iPad or iPod touch has been unveiled to allow designers in the architecture, engineering and construction industry to easily locate and access large-format plans on the cloud.
Shuttleworth’s Version 5 MIS has a completely redesigned user interface that looks and feels like Microsoft Outlook.
Excessive total area coverage (TAC) for deep blacks could be costing the global print industry hundreds of million of Euros, according to the results of a study by the Flemish Innovation Centre for Graphic Communication (VIGC). The long-held belief in the industry is that the TAC should be between 320% and 360%, but the VIGC investigation revealed that 260%, or even 220%, is more than adequate, as long as the conversion is carried out with the correct profiles.
New US-based Novus Imaging has unveiled a patent pending, full greyscale, 3m hybrid printer and a new, patent pending, ‘green’ ink technology at the SGIA show. Digital Print Innovations (DPI) will be the UK and Irish distributor for the product range.