drupa 2016: hall 3, booth A87 - The ink manufacturer Marabu will be showing its new Plug & Print inkjet ink for ECO-SOL MAX 3, a concept for digital textile transfer printing, and the variety of UV direct printing onto glass. In terms of product safety and printing inks, Marabu provides new solutions for screen and pad printing. By partnering with SCREEN Marabu presents the wide format UV printing system Truepress Jet W3200UV in its portfolio for the first time.…

drupa 2016: hall 9, stand C4 - swissQprint is announcing a handling robot and 50% higher print resolution for its UV inkjet printers. A Nyala 2, the flagship model, will be there demonstrating these innovations on their booth. swissQprint, the manufacturer of premium digital printing systems, is announcing an innovation at drupa 2016: a robot for loading and unloading rigid media from large format printers. That eliminates manual work and makes unattended production possible. For users, this add-on module makes…

drupa 2016: hall 12, booth D34 – eurolaser is now expanding its product range with the addition of two new modules. Operators now have the opportunity to place adhesive labels on laser-cut parts and then print the labels individually afterwards. It is also possible to print directly on the material used. The new options are an optimal addition enabling labelling of the cut parts for additional process steps during production. Besides, these new options can also be extended by a…

drupa 2016: hall 4, booth 4F05 - Folex, the Swiss-German coating company, has expanded their Sign and display products with two new additions in Tack S CL and Tack UV CL for Solvent and UV inks, respectively for the adhesive glass window display market. Ideal for where a clear see-throw no adhesive effect is required. Both products are based on PET polyester face films, offering excellent tear strength and clarity, a PET release liner in combination with an acrylic ultra-removable…

AthleticWalk is one of two innovations that Asphalt Art (AAI) presented to their visitors at the FESPA. It’s the first product in the range of AAI that got a laminate for the surface. AthleticWalk is a vinyl film with a newly developed adhesive. You can hardly feel it with the fingers, however, once applied on the surface, the adhesive develops its adhesion and adheres firm and safe on the surface. The protection laminate has a R10 certificate and therefore the…

Avery Dennison announced a definitive agreement to acquire the European business of Mactac from Platinum Equity, a California-based private equity firm, for the purchase price of EUR 200 million including assumed debt. With 2015 year-end run-rate revenues of EUR 147 million, or approximately $170 million, and approximately 470 employees, the business is a leading manufacturer of high quality pressure-sensitive materials, serving several high-value segments, including graphics, specialty labels and industrial tapes. Mactac’s core product lines complement Avery Dennison’s existing graphics…

Screen is pleased to confirm the appointment of MCA PRO as its reseller for the Truepress Jet 520 continuous inkjet presses, W3200UV wide-format UV printer, and L-350UV digital label press in Austria. The company also provides full service and support for Screen’s popular PlateRite platesetters. Based in Wolkersdorf, the MCA PRO team is headed up by Martin Strobel. “Screen is world-renowned and respected for the quality of its printing solutions. Our partnership not only allows us to support the significant…

SA International (SAi) has announced the release of a free Version 12 download for all existing licenses of the SAi FlexiPRINT HP Latex Edition software. The new version includes a suite of major new features for FlexiPRINT Premium and FlexiSIGN-Pro Editions, as well as enhancement to the company’s FlexiPRINT Basic Edition software, available on HP bundles worldwide for customers of the HP Latex 310 and 330 printers. All three packages comprise Microsoft® Windows® 10 compatibility, intuitive Job Nesting Alignment Tools…

ORAFOL introduced no less than 5 new exciting shades to the popular range of ORACAL® 970 Premium Shift Effect Cast films. The materials are shade shifter films, taking car wrapping to a whole new level. With their color changing effect depending on which angle you view the material from, it is possible to create really unique looks. The new colors are: Pearl Symphony, Avocado, Amethyst, Aquamarine and Ultramarine violet. “After the initial introduction of the shade shifter films last year,…

Shortly after the introduction of the waterbased Sihl wallpapers Sihl has presented the new embossed varieties for the use with solvent and latex inks, at FESPA Digital in Amsterdam: Sihl Non-woven design2wall Sol 195 Leather (2535), Facets (2536) and Weave (2537). The three new, high quality non-woven wallpapers each of which with an elegant satin finish are winners in their look and feel: “Leather” with its traditional leather imitation structure, “Facets” with its original facets structure and the “Weave” with…