Wide format

EFI has recorded a record quarter in Q2, with sales growing 10% year-on-year to $180.3m (118m) and operating profit growing 19% to $23.4m.

Printers don't often declare themselves grateful for machine downtime. There aren't, after all, many silver linings to watching the minutes and hours tick by while a press fails to make you money, and...

Paperlinx is ramping up its Car Wrap Club initiative by targeting new members and developing a new website, all with a view to generating business for its customers.

UK-based Drytac Europe has expanded its range of laminates specifically targeted at UV-printed output.

Specialist packaging and POS printer STI Line has scored a UK first with the order of a Fujifilm Inca Onset S40i supplied with Uvijet OC inks. The deal was finalised at Fespa.

Total Displays has upgraded its print arsenal and MIS with a double EFI deal at Fespa, part of a 1.5m spend in 2013 that also includes a move to a new site.

Tayprint has spent 830,000 on two HP Scitex machines to push itself into new markets.

Signbox signed for a new Durst Omega 2 LED UV industrial roll-to-roll printer at Fespa last week.

LED technology is developing fast and is now an option in a number of applications that could previously only be handled by arc lamps - a trend that is set to continue. So is it time to ditch the...

DS Smith Packaging is proposing to move its Bradford-based retail and display and manufacturing arm, Multigraphics, into its Ely, Cambridgeshire facility.

Group 101 bought a Roland Soljet Pro4 XR-640 printer/cutter in the final hours of Fespa 2013 in possibly the last deal of the five-day show.

Wide-format kit reseller Atech (Q80S/Q94S) secured a raft of new business at Fespa, with notable sales including a Roland Soljet Pro4 XF-640 and a Roland VersaUV LEJ-640.