Client News

Visitors to FESPA 2018 Global Print Expo (Messe Berlin, 15-18 May 2018) will discover a content-rich event programme, entirely founded on independent research into the key growth trends in speciality printing.

FESPA today announces the launch of Print Make Wear, a new, interactive visitor feature designed to replicate a fast fashion factory. Print Make Wear will be free to attend for registered visitors to FESPA Global Print Expo 2018, which takes place at Messe Berlin, Germany, from 15 to 18 May 2018.

At this year’s FESPA Global Print Expo, taking place from 15 to 18 May in Berlin, Germany, Printeriors will take the form of an interactive visitor experience located in the Atrium of Messe Berlin.

South Normanton, UK – 8 February 2018–Sun Chemical (stand E60) will be exhibiting for the first time at PrintWeekLive! (7-8 March at the Wasps Arena, Coventry) and will be using the show as a platform to present its latest innovations in the field of low-energy printing for the sheet-fed commercial and packaging and the narrow web label markets.

PARSIPPANY, N.J., U.S.A. – 7 February 2018 – Sun Chemical will increase prices on all offset inks and coatings for its customers across all regions, effective 1 March 2018.

Fujifilm announces that London-based Push Print has become the latest company in the UK to invest in Fujifilm’s flagship B2 inkjet press. The machine will be installed in March and will enable the company to produce short runs and samples at the same exceptional level of quality it has been delivering to its customers for a decade and a half.

PARSIPPANY, N.J., USA – 7 February 2018 – Sun Chemical and its parent company, DIC Corporation, have acquired Luminescence Holdings Ltd., a manufacturer of currency, tax stamp, passports, ID cards, secure documents and brand protection inks for the security market.

The new GMG ProofControl 2.4 now supports the digital standard Fogra PSD. The templates for print standards, which can now be created individually, make it possible to individually adjust the proof verification solution even more effectively.

Belfast-based print and signage consumables supplier, Alphagraphics, has recently celebrated its 30^th anniversary by introducing the Acuity LED UV printer range to the Irish market. Originally conceived as a litho ink distributor, Alphagraphics has steadily expanded its portfolio over the subsequent three decades and – keen to tap into the hardware needs of its ever growing wide-format consumables market – the company has invested in its own Acuity LED 1600 II to provide in-house demonstrations.

Signbox has printed and installed 39 graphic artworks at new Cardinia Real Estate UK properties in London. Previously home to RBS, the two adjacent buildings on the Southbank now house a leading marketing communications firm and needed an injection of colour and character to reflect the ethos of the new occupants. Cardinia Real Estate UK worked in collaboration with a number of artists, and with signage and display specialist Signbox, to transform the buildings with colourful and distinctive artwork displays throughout.

FESPA has published the framework programme for the Trends Theatre at FESPA Global Print Expo 2018, which takes place from 15 – 18 May 2018 at Messe Berlin, Germany.

Fujifilm today announces the release of a new machine in its Acuity series, the Acuity LED 1600R. This accessible, dedicated roll-to-roll printer is optimised for four-colour CYMK printing, but otherwise shares all the benefits in quality and performance of the highly successful Acuity LED 1600 II hybrid model. The first public demonstration of this new model will take place at C!Print Lyon 6^th-8^th February 2018 on the Fujifilm stand (2L36). It will be commercially available on the 1^st of March.