Large/wide format

Echo House has scored another Fujifilm first after installing the first Acuity Ultra Hybrid LED printer in the world.

Agfa has signed its first contracts for the Inca Speedset single-pass sheetfed inkjet press, and for Agfa-branded Onset wide-format printers.

Welshpool Printing Group (WPG) has installed a Mimaki JFX200-2513 EX to ramp-up turnarounds.

Agfa’s Q2 results have been hit by cost inflation and supply chain issues, with the business posting a net loss of €13m (£11m).

Banner Box and sister company Flagmakers printed over 7,000 flags after they won a contract for the Commonwealth Games.

Format Graphics has installed its first Agfa, an Avinci CX3200 dye-sublimation printer, to support increasing demand for soft signage and enabling it to produce in one day what previously took a week.

MacroArt has installed the UK’s first Durst P5 TEX iSUB dye-sublimation device, which prints direct-to-fabric in one step.

A director at Kaps Finishing has set up a new business printing digital art pieces known as non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

TheMagicTouch has opened up a lucrative bolt-on revenue stream for commercial and promotional print businesses with a simple process for the personalisation of shoes and footwear.

Agfa CEO Pascal Juéry said the group was “eager to get started” with the integration of Inca, with selective demos of the new B1 Speedset folding carton device set to commence later this year.