Wide-format

60-seconds with: Perton Signs

Perton Signs is celebrating 150 years of continuous trading this year. The company has seen entire eras come and go, but what really matters to event organisers today, says director Andrew Kennedy, is...

Sector’s success is driven by ongoing tech development

Over the past few years, while other sectors have struggled in tough market conditions, wide-format and textiles has enjoyed stable, and enviable, growth – in technology, in sales and, perhaps most...

Killer app: Signbox creates head-turning artwork for Skype HQ

The central London offices of digital media companies have a certain reputation to maintain. Declining the London bus, ‘Granny’s Flat’ and ‘Hobbit Hole’ aesthetics of a certain other media giant’s...

Streamline owner Lockley beds in with second print firm

Former Inspired Thinking Group (ITG) director Mark Lockley, who bought Leicester-based Streamline Press last year, is eyeing further growth after completing the acquisition of local rival, John Baxter...

Spandex appointed as master distributor for 3M architectural products

3M has appointed sign and display trade supplier Spandex as sole UK master distributor of its architectural substrates.

60-seconds with Oasis Graphic

Oasis Graphic started out in 1988, based out of a lockup in Hillingdon. The firm’s client list, staff numbers and equipment soon outgrew those premises as the business branched out from exhibition...

Screen puts focus on W3200UV at Fespa

Screen Europe will use Fespa 2014 to highlight the capabilities of the latest addition to the wide-format Truepress Jet range, the W3200UV.

Sun Chemical to unveil new soft signage ink at Fespa

Sun Chemical will launch the latest addition to its Streamline ink range at Fespa Digital 2014 in Munich.

Killer app: Octink spreads the love for London Fashion Week

Notorious for wearing very little, and indeed nothing at all in her Wrecking Ball video, controversial pop singer Miley Cyrus was nevertheless prominently featured on a London Fashion Week window...

Hollywood Monster in £400,000 Vutek spend

Sign and graphics display specialist Hollywood Monster has added an EFI Vutek GS5000r to its stable of super-wide format devices in response to growth in its POS and retail work.