Wide format

San Mateo, Ca-based BarkerBlue recently expanded its wide format and digital printing capabilities with a range of equipment from HP and Zund as it looks to provide branding solutions to Silicon...

Walking into Tower Printing is a bit like walking onto the set of Only Fools and Horses. For starters, the commercial print outfit is situated in Peckham in south-east London, home to Del Boy's clan.

Digital print's advance into packaging markets will be underlined later this month with both HP and Océ exhibiting at the first Corrugated & Carton Exhibition CCE International in Munich.

Displayways has completed a restructuring, rebranding and re-investment programme.

Caldera has launched PrintBoard, a soft signage system designed to provide printers with a dashboard display of their production status.

Mimaki Europe has launched a media certification programme for its JV400LX printer and latex inks.

Colourgen has launched Photo Tex, a Kodak-branded repositionable self-adhesive printable fabric suitable for water-based printers.

Spandex has added four textured films from the Avery Supreme Wrapping Film (SWF) range to its portfolio.

Zund has appointed Spandex as the authorised UK reseller of its S3 and G3 range of wide-format flatbed cutters.

AG/CAD has moved into wide-format printer sales and will launch the Dyss Apollo Hybrid GH2200 machine at Sign & Digital UK in April alongside a new version of its KaseMake software.

Berkshire printer Oasis Graphic Co battled extreme weather and a ticking clock to revamp the BlackBerry HQ to mark the 30 January release of the Z10 smartphone.

As part of the integration and rebranding of its two screen-print and large-format graphics operations, SSDM and Fenn Graphics, Aura Graphics has deployed a group-wide 40-seat Shuttleworth MIS.