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Positive outcome from glass ink tests

Polytype claims that its Virtu Vetro ink series for UV-curable production onto glass surfaces has completed a number of performance tests, demonstrating distinction in several key performance areas.

Alderson Print POS extends creative studio capability

Alderson Print group’s POS division has appointed Tom Desbruslais as CAD manager for the division as part of its aim to extend the group’s creative service offering.

PrintIT! shortlist announced

A panel of printing industry representatives joined The Fairtrade Foundation and Proskills at Canon UK’s London-based showroom recently to shortlist the finalist entries and category winners for the PrintIT! 2010/11 Competition.  This year, over 16,700 students from 350 schools across the country registered to take part in PrintIT!  Following an initial first phase selection from all the student workbooks entered, the industry judging panel was tasked with selecting three finalist submissions for each of the seven prize categories. 

Inca wins business award

Josero expands its portfolio

Josero said it will show a range of new products at Sign UK this year. This includes its new Redjet 3.2m solvent or bio printer (capable of 720dpi and up to 75m2/hr) and a number of new Triangle inks. 

ArtSystems to package up Caldera Rip

ArtSystems is to include the Caldera Rip range in its portfolio. The move further consolidates the position of both companies in the high-end HP UV and HP latex markets, whilst creating new opportunities in other sectors.

HP confirms Sign and Digital speaker line-up

Details of HP on-stand seminar programme at Sign and Digital UK has been confirmed. Speaking at the show will be HP latex ink user Mark Fuller, managing director and owner of Tay-CAD and Glenn Bailey senior executive, technology (EMEA) at MediaWide UK.  James Deacon, an independent vinyl wrapping specialist from the Sign School, director of Bigger Stickers and the HP approved trainer, will be wrapping a Vespa live on the stand. 

Antalis brings out 3D film 

Antalis McNaughton has launched iPrint Pure 3D, a 500 micron polypropylene film that when printed displays a full 3D image and can be printed using UV inkjet, UV screen printing, waterless UV offset, digital offset and hot foil blocking. 

Soft signage demos at Sign and Digital UK

The EFI stand at Sign and Digital UK will host digital textile workflow demonstrations in conjunction with its partners Klieverik, Georg+Otto Friedrich, Solent and Hilord.

DMUK MD back after charity trip

Display system manufacturer DMUK has just welcomed back managing director, Gary Clark-Ward, to its head office after a month-long trip to Thailand where he worked as a volunteer, largely in and around nursery-style schools, in the town of Surin in the North East of the country.

Rejig at Avery Dennison

Avery Dennison has given its business units new names to communicate their focus on market-driven solutions. Graphics and Reflective Products (of which wide-format substrates are part) simply becomes Graphics and Reflective Solutions. The company’s largest business unit, Roll Materials, becomes Label and Packaging Materials; Retail Information Services is now Retail Branding and Information Solutions; and Specialty Tape Division becomes Performance Tapes.   

Tests highlight PDF issues for print sector

VIGC, the Flemish Innovation Center for Graphic Communication, has run the rule over a raft of popular and lesser-known PDF viewing tools. It said results show that most tools do not display a PDF/X correctly. And iPad apps for viewing PDFs put in a poor performance, making them unreliable in a design or prepress environment.

Kolorcraft  takes first Onset S40

The first Onset S40 in the world has been installed at Kolorcraft in Ossett, UK. The 470m2/hr printer, which gets its first public airing at Fespa Digital where it will be on the stand of exclusive global distribution partner Fujifilm, sits between the 750m2/hr Inca Onset and the 310m2/hr Inca Onset S20. 

Flagship Fujifilm Advanced Print Technology Centre announced

Fujifilm is due to open an Advanced Print Technology Centre to demonstrate its entire portfolio of digital print solutions. Located in Brussels, this state-of-the-art centre, which comprises over 500m2 of demonstration space, will enable print service providers to learn how they can take advantage of the latest digital print technologies to help them drive their businesses forward and maximise revenues.  Many digital print applications will be showcased, from SRA3 format commercial work to wide-format and super-wide format indoor and outdoor print applications, and at the heart of this state-of-the-art array of hardware will be XMF, Fujifilm's unique cross-media workflow. The new centre will also host the company's new B2 sheet-fed inkjet press, the Jet Press 720.