Wide-format

Firefighters were at the incident for approximately five hours

Fire at specialist printer

One of the UK’s leading fabric printers suffered a fire on the first day back of the new year.

The Standard 8 team with their new Kongsberg

Standard 8 invests in Kongsberg X24 Edge

Standard 8 has installed a Konsberg X24 cutting table to handle growing demand for acrylic work.

Each bobbin holds around eight metres of thread

Pip and Chip buys Mimaki to bolster bubbling bobbin business

Gloucester-based specialist print business Pip and Chip has installed a Mimaki JFX200-2513 EX 2.5x1.3m UV LED flatbed printer to keep up with demand.

Antony Rider, Rocket's sales director: the new Vutek will help boost Rocket's sustainability credentials

Rocket Graphics secures trajectory with Vutek install

Rocket Graphics installed an EFI Vutek 5r+ roll-to-roll printer at the start of December to back up a record year for the firm.

(L-R) Allan Hamilton, Stuart Ritchie, Terry Quinn and Tristan Harrold

MBO at OPG

A management buyout (MBO) deal has been successfully completed at fleet vehicle graphics specialist OPG.

Chas Moloney: remembered fondly

Chas Moloney RIP

Ricoh’s Chas Moloney has passed away after a short illness.

Iain Clasper-Cotte (left) with production manager Luke Barraclough

Me & My: Agfa Jeti Tauro H3300

Iain Clasper-Cotte, managing director of Northern Flags and its wide-format display specialist sister company FaberExposize UK, loves Agfa machines. He’s assembled such an impressive array of Agfa...

The Signage & Print Installer Directory has now moved out of testing

Signage installer directory goes live after successful trial

After a heavily oversubscribed trial earlier this year, a directory of signage and print installers has moved out of testing and gone live today (21 December).

FaberExposize will have complete production redundancy once the calender is running

FaberExposize UK buys new calender before New Year

FaberExposize UK has taken delivery of a Klieverik GTC101-3500 dye-sublimation fixation calender.

The new site houses a full demonstration suite for print hardware

Quality Print Services relocates to new premises 

Quality Print Services (QPS) has relocated to new purpose-built premises as part of its ongoing commitment to delivering a high-quality service to customers.