Inkjet

Meteor Inkjet has become the first supplier to launch production-ready electronics and software to drive the new Fujifilm Dimatix Samba GMA line of inkjet printheads.

Inkjet equipment manufacturer Global Inkjet Systems (GIS) has doubled the size of its production facilities, in line with recent staff expansions.

Inca Digital has a prototype 1.6m-wide single-pass inkjet web press running at a development facility.

EFI is targeting the burgeoning industrial textile printing market with the new Reggiani Renoir Flexy, making its worldwide debut at Fespa.

Dover Corporation has headhunted Heidelberg’s Jason Oliver to head up its new digital printing group.

Fujifilm believes its new B1 inkjet platform making its world debut at Fespa will “open up a space that didn’t exist before”.

Fujifilm’s experimental month-long open house for its B2 inkjet Jet Press 720S is now fully booked up.

A new B1-format sheetfed inkjet printer from Inca Digital will be previewed at the upcoming Fespa show in Hamburg.

South Wales-based printer Lexon Group is set to take delivery of Europe’s first Komori IS29 UV inkjet sheetfed press.

Canon Europe has extended its Océ VarioPrint i-Series portfolio with the launch of the Océ VarioPrint i200, a 200ppm sheetfed inkjet press.

Heidelberg has scored something of a coup, by signing up a packaging printer originally named as one of Landa’s beta sites to be a pilot user of its Primefire 106 B1 inkjet press.

Kodak has reversed its decision to sell off its Prosper and Ultrastream inkjet operations and will now retain them, after the offers received “did not reflect the value of the business”.