Colour Graphics has invested around £700,000 on new wide-format machinery to bring in new business and ramp up its turnover by 25% in the next year.

Oc has launched a new range of wide-format printers for the engineering and design reprographic market

Midlands-based Norton Printwear, Signage & Embroidery has invested in a used 1.4m-wide Roland Soljet XC-540 to handle an influx of wrapping and wallpaper jobs.

Oc has recorded UK's first Mac-based installation of its wide-format TCS500 colour print, copy and scan system at architects Poynton Bradbury Wynter Cole (PBWC).

Canon Europe has launched two machines billed as the fastest digital 1.06m (42in) wide-format colour printers on the market.

A £125,000 investment by a South Yorkshire company is opening up new markets and fuelling growth centred on wide-format print.

Agfa Graphics is to launch two new wide-format printers at Sign & Digital UK 2011. It will be the first showing of the Anapurna M1600, the latest of the company's Anapurna UV printers.

Tradeprint has unveiled its new trading platform, which will enable it to expand its product paltform, including a planned increase in its wide-format offering.

International printers will highlight the opportunities in the emerging digital wide-format sector in a webcast next Monday.

The Robert Horne Group has launched Digital Solutions, effectively providing a one-stop shop for the wide format digital market.