Wide-format

HP will make its first-ever moves into the textiles printing market by launching two machines in its new Stitch S series of dye-sublimation printers, with a third on the way for Fespa.

Guandong will premiere its new Digital Collection of substrates for wide-format printing at Fespa 2019.

Self-adhesive substrates specialist Aslan will show a raft of new speciality films at Fespa.

Fespa has confirmed the tagline of its 2020 expo in Madrid as preparations continue for this year’s Munich show, which will feature a keynote from a senior BMW executive.

EFI is poised to be acquired by a US private equity firm in a deal that values the wide-format kit manufacturer and productivity software developer at $1.7bn.

Bigprinter will continue its initial entry into the UK and European markets with a showing a Fespa that will feature the debut of its new roll-to-roll wide-format inkjet printer.

Spandex has expanded its wrap film range with the introduction of Arlon Fusion Wrap, a 60-micron white gloss high-performance polymeric film.

Last July, Cardiff based large-format print specialist 3 Sixty expanded its textile printing with major investment in a 3.2m dye-sublimation printer and associated ancillaries.

Next month hordes of printers from across the world will descend on Messe München, in Munich, Germany, for the Fespa Global Print Expo 2019.

Deanprint can trace its history back to the 1870s when Dean & Dawson was a world renowned travel agency (even getting a mention in the film The Great Escape).