Digital

Service Graphics has finessed its UK footprint with consolidation at some branch locations and expansion elsewhere.

Sales are up at Xaar, and customers have embraced its Aquinox printhead with two new machines already in development – ahead of the group’s expectations.

Newbury exhibition and events firm Paramount4 has installed a Mimaki UCJV300-160 printer-cutter after finding previous success with a 3.2m-wide Mimaki.

Kyocera is expanding its offering for commercial and industrial inkjet printing with the acquisition of Nixka – the business formed by ex-Impika employees after Xerox shuttered that operation.

Neil Sutton will retire at the end of this month after a near-30-year career at Komori, and has received a Lifetime Achievement Award as part of his send-off.

Bell & Bain is scoping out the potential for reel-fed colour inkjet as part of its future investment options.

The University of Leeds (UoL) installed a swathe of new Konica Minolta and Duplo kit after putting its print centre refit out to tender.

Xeikon has launched a new entry-level inkjet label press, and has several other new products in the development phase and likely to be unveiled later this year.

HP has launched its latest entry into the flexible packaging market, the digital mid-web 200K press.

As the much-maligned fashion industry looks to clean up its act, on-demand direct-to-fabric printing might just represent its, and your, biggest opportunity.