Print buying

Print buyers courted to Ipex with low-cost sponsored overnight deal
Print buyers and procurement professionals are being encouraged to visit Ipex with a special low-cost overnight package costing less than 100.

Riot of Colour produces Avatar 3D lenticular display
Riot of Colour has created its largest 3D panel to date by producing a backdrop display for HMV's Oxford street store to celebrate the launch of Avatar on Blu-ray and DVD.

Fox's Avatar POS work taken on by Bezier
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment has appointed Bezier to produce point-of-sale (POS) work for its mammoth Blu-ray and DVD launch of the 3D blockbuster Avatar.

Colour needs a champion in India
Sachin Shardul reports on the Indo-German conference on colour measurement and management - and workshopping which elicited overwhelming response from more than hundred delegates

The Folio Society produces facsimile of Mappa Mundi
The Folio Society has produced what it terms is the definitive reproduction of the Hereford World Map, the largest surviving medieval Mappa Mundi.

Moss Bros tasks Creo Retail Marketing with POS work
Creo Retail Marketing produced the in-store point-of-sale (POS) and window displays for menswear chain Moss' Spring/Summer 2010 collection across the group's 150+ stores.

Stralfors wins 4.7m communications mobile phone study contract
Print and communications services provider Stralfors has won a mailing contract for a new research project into mobile phone use.

Slatcom launches replacable graphics system for slatwalls
Leeds-based Slatcom has developed a display system that can be retrofitted to slatwalls offering a low-cost and simple-to-install method to add graphics to the common shop fittings.

BlastLab TV show moves into print
Children's magazine publisher Egmont UK has secured a deal to create a magazine version of the popular kids' BBC TV show Blast Lab.
Students set up estimator tool
Two Irish students have launched a print estimating tool called Print Estimator, which produces commercial and sign printing estimates.