UK and European sign solutions specialist, Contract Sign Systems, has signaled its intention to significantly increase its production capacity and diversify its service offering by becoming the first UK-based company to invest in Canon’s ultra-high production Océ Arizona 6160 XTS wide format flatbed printer. The Cornwall-based company – specializing in parking, town, street and prohibitive signage, as well offering other commercial applications – required a technology that was capable of producing higher volumes of applications with a faster turnaround. The…

Ilford, traditional brand in the market of photography, proudly presents five new fine art papers for museums and galleries where matte papers are highly demanded. The new »ILFORD Galerie Prestige« contains: Gold Fibre Gloss, Cotton Artist Textured, Fine Art Smooth, Textured Cotton Rag und Smooth Cotton Rag. According to Arnoud Mekenkamp, Joint Managing Director at Ilford Imaging Europe, the company´s goal is to provide the market with premium papers – as they are used to from ILFORD. The Galerie Prestige…

GlassPrint 2015 returns to Dusseldorf on 24-25 November. The most important glass trade fair, glasstec, and GlassPrint, Europe’s dedicated conference and exhibition for glass decoration have agreed to renew their successful cooperation. glasstec will ‘power’ GlassPrint 2015 and the two events will continue to mutually support each other. Commenting on this, Birgit Horn, Director of glasstec, said: “We are pleased that GlassPrint will be hosted again by the glasstec city Düsseldorf. This contributes to Düsseldorf being not only the home…

Barbieri have strengthened their sales team by appointing Mr. Stefan Braun as Area Sales Manager EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa). Stefan is new to the industrial printing industry but has 4 years experience in sales and establishing sales networks. “I’m proud to take part of the team of an international brand with such an outstanding reputation. My goal is to create an even more robust sales environment by collaborating with our partners in as close a manor as possible”…

Sign and Digital UK: Stand B10  MTEX Technologies will create a ‘UK first’ at Sign & Digital UK 2015, showing the newly launched MTEX Vision with direct disperse inks and the MTEX PAD coating machine together as a ‘snapshot’ of its total turnkey solutions. Stewart Bell, Managing Director of MTEX Technologies said: “We’re very excited about the upcoming exhibition, and the chance to showcase two of the key elements in our direct-to-textile print solutions. Our turnkey solutions allow innovative and…

Sign and Digital UK: Stand E32   City and West End Solutions (CWE) will highlight the need for optimal quality across an entire digital print and finishing workflow at Sign & Digital 2015 – from the machines and inks, to the software, the media and the finishing. CWE Commercial Director Graham De Kock said: “To get the best output you need to invest in your entire workflow – but that doesn’t mean it has to cost you a fortune. We’ll be…

Color-Logic metallic special effects are now available for flexible packaging. Discussing the fast-growing flexible packaging market, Color-Logic Director of Sales and Marketing Mark Geeves commented: "Brand managers and their graphic designers, who have long used the Color-Logic process to produce offset packaging and flexographic printed labels, are now bringing Color-Logic to flexible films and shrink wrap materials. Designs for printing on metalized films, for example, require complex white ink masks which can be generated with just a click of the…

Wide-format print houses looking to improve efficiency and reporting can now turn to Caldera Nexio, a new solution designed to connect the dots between a company's various software applications. This interoperability means that businesses can connect their RIP, workflow, MIS, accounting and other software packages to benefit from improvements to file automation and production reporting. The French software developer has engineered Nexio to cater to these two core needs by taking the Job Definition Format (JDF) protocol and extending it…

Screen is pleased to announce that Atrium Centrum Ploterowe (atrium.com.pl), one of Poland’s premier large and wide-format hardware and consumable suppliers, has been appointed as a reseller for the range of Truepress Jet UV wide format printers. The partnership strengthens the range of leading-edge printers Atrium sells to meet its customers’ increasingly-diverse range of needs. Headquartered in Opole, with regional offices in Warsaw, Kraków, Poznań and Gdańsk, Atrium’s 100 staff ensure customers receive the highest level of sales, training and…

To support the rapid and expanding adoption of its color management technology, CMA Imaging kicks off the New Year with the announcement that Charles “Charly” Henri Levi-Morelle, formerly of Toyota Motor Europe, has been appointed Director of Supply Chain and Products Management at CMA Imaging. The company has created six additional positions in technical support, sales support, and accounting, to help facilitate this instrumental growth phase. “We are pleased to welcome someone with Charly’s expertise to the CMA team,” says…