Image Reports
Supporting the wide-format digital print sector
Event branding and production specialist Icon has been certified as being fully compliant to the Carbon Trust Standard. The company has also achieved the Carbon Neutral Standard, which means that is has a net zero carbon footprint.
Durst will premiere its Kappa 180 textile printer at the ITMA trade show in Barcelona in September. Developed on the back of Durst's proprietary Quadro printhead technology the new machine offers printing speeds in excess of 600m2/hr and output resolutions up to 1056 x 600 dpi. It uses Durst’s own Kappa inks.
Sample Print, the website for Canon large-format print samples, has added two cityscape images from UK artist Piers Bourke.
The RollsRoller flatbed applicator from William Smith is now available in 18 configurations and in three performance categories: standard duty, premium grade and traffic that, as the grading implies, is specific to the production of road traffic signs.
Canon and Océ are combining their printing operations in Japan. The move follows the completion on 9 March 2010 of the public offer by Canon for Océ outstanding common shares, which was launched with the aim of creating the overall number one presence in the printing industry.
Printers, publishers and brand owners no longer have to use control strips for quality benchmarking thanks to a new offering from the Flemish Innovation Centre for Graphic Communication. The organisation has launched its image-based Quality Perception Benchmarking Service, which allows for objective comparisons of print jobs.
GMG ColorProof proofing software now fully supports the new Roland VersaUV LEC-540 printers for digital mock-up creation and the VersaCamm printers VS-300, VS-420, VS-540 and VS-640 with integrated contour cutting capability. Besides mock-up creation, these printers allow for digital label production on various substrates suitable for solvent ink systems.
Having installed a HP Scitex TJ8350 printer with inline finishing earlier this year, Midlands-based Fosco Hayes Hurdley (Fosco’s) is now installing a second HP Scitex FB7500 printer. The investment is part of Fosco’s 70th anniversary expansion plans as it looks to increase flexibility.
Small businesses are being warned that their websites could fall foul of new EU rules governing the use of ‘cookies’ unless urgent alterations are made.
Josero is entering the large-format inkjet printer market. Best known as the master distributor of Triangle inks in the UK and Ireland, the addition printers to its portfolio is designed to consolidate its place in the market.
Via its sponsorship of the 2011 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity Young Lions Competition, a week long event that brings together rising advertising professionals from around the world and challenges them to produce innovative campaigns, HP hopes to push the power of print.
With integrated marketing campaigns claiming an increasing share of budgets, London is to get a major new event devoted to the fast-growing cross media marketing sector. Informa Print Group (a division of Informa Exhibitions) has announced that Cross Media 2012 will take place at the Business Design Centre, London, on 3-4 September.
The JetMaster Display System from Innova Art has won the Innovation Award at the Art and Framing Industry Awards hosted by the Fine Art Trade Guild.