Equipment suppliers

Polar will launch an entry-level laser cutter, the Digicut Laser this autumn, which will be available for around £40,000 in the UK.

Simpson Group has completed a £1.5m investment with the installation of a Crest 3200 X-Y RSC cutter.

Clinchtech, the OEM partner behind the Inca Onset automated media handling system, has ended its exclusive agreement with Inca’s worldwide distributor Fujifilm Speciality Ink Systems.

Wide-format kit reseller Quality Print Services (QPS) has expanded its range of Roland kit and will add the new Roland Texart RT 640 dye-sublimation printer to its portfolio from April.

Xerox reseller Xeretec has increased its national presence after opening a new London site.

Mailroom equipment supplier Addressing & Mailing Solutions (AMS) will launch its first heavy stock printer, the AMS Illumina, at Label & Print 2015 later this month.

TheMagicTouch has picked up the Best Innovation award at the Trophex exhibition in Birmingham's NEC for the second year running.

Mimaki has launched the CFL-605RT Compact Flatbed Cutting Plotter for the production of prototypes, samples and small lots of products and packaging.

Apex Digital Graphics and Intelligent Finishing Systems (IFS) will hold a joint open house at Apex's Hertfordshire showroom from 10-12 March.

Apex Digital Graphics has signed an exclusive UK & Ireland CTP and plate distribution deal that managing director Bob Usher said could offer a 30% saving over the "big three".