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Thomson Print & Packaging gets new digital Versafire CV
Thomson Print & Packaging is replacing its five-year-old Ricoh digital press with a Versafire CV five-colour machine, in order to integrate it with the Prinect workflow already in use on its...

Mimaki moves into 3D inkjet space
Mimaki (A1-A25/B6-C50) has announced the first details of its new 3D inkjet machine, due to be commercially available by the end of this year.

KBA has had a positive Q1 in Europe with orders and revenue up
KBA Group posted 20% more orders in the first quarter of 2017 than in the same period last year with a “substantial increase” in orders for medium-format sheetfed presses, particularly in southern...

Fujitsu staff announce new strike days
Fujitsu UK workers have announced an additional five strike days as part of a long-running dispute over pay, pensions, job security and union recognition, as the IT giant pushes on with proposals to...

FespaDaily news round-up, day three: Kornit; Texo Trade Services; Zünd; Agfa; J-Teck3
The PrintWeek FespaDaily team’s round up of some of the stories from Day three of the show at the Hamburg Messe.

McGowan: EFI Nozomi could replace litho-lam
EFI has reported strong interest in its giant Nozomi C18000 corrugated printing line from display graphics printers – with McGowans in Ireland set to become the first to install one in that market. ...

HP ‘reinvents’ its Latex range at Fespa
HP has launched two mid-range Latex printers at Fespa as well as a series of enhancements to its PageWide printers and an automated feeder for its flagship HP Scitex 17000.

Adventa debuting QuickPro Direct
Adventa (A1-E19) has launched QuickPro Direct, a canvas wall art product for flatbed printers, at its inaugural Fespa.

Vapor makes show debut
First-time exhibitor Vapor Apparel (B6-C103) is debuting its ranges of sublimation-friendly clothing to the European market at Fespa.

Elitron showing new large-format cutter
Italian manufacturer Elitron (A1-D55) is debuting its new Kombo SDC+ 3.2 large-format digital cutter at this year’s Fespa.

Qres launches Q200 flatbed in Fespa debut
Czech Republic manufacturer Qres Technologies (A1-C66) is using this year’s show to launch its latest flatbed printer, the Q200.

Azonprinter to debut UV Matrix
Azonprinter (A1-A65) is giving a show debut to its UV Matrix printer, which it claims is the only wide-format UV-curable inkjet flatbed printer on the market that can print on objects up to 200mm in...

FespaDaily news round-up, day two: Sun Chemical; Guyenne; ErgoSoft; 3M; Inprinta; Innotech; INX; M&R
The PrintWeek FespaDaily team’s round up of some of the stories from Day two of the show at the Hamburg Messe.

Rare 15th-century Caxton print discovered
A librarian at the University of Reading has unearthed one of the oldest surviving pages ever printed, identified as part of a book produced by William Caxton at his Westminster print shop in the 15th...

Ambitious Dover appoints Heidelberg's Oliver to drive digital
Dover Corporation has headhunted Heidelberg’s Jason Oliver to head up its new digital printing group.