The Crawley-based firm has created a buzz at Fespa with a silver wrapped double-decker bus as a centrepiece on its stand, decorated by international artist Insa. New products on show include Digimura Ag and Au wallpapers, which are silver and gold respectively. The PVC and polyester-mix papers, which come in 1,280mm x 30m rolls, can be printed onto with UV curable inks only and are applied to a pasted wall without the need to apply paste to the substrate. The new metallic range costs £13 per sq/m. Digimura 2.1 Silk, also launched this week, has joined the rest of the textured 2.1 family of Tactile, Smooth, Rude, Dune and Façade. All are available in 1300mm x 30m rolls at £7 per sq/m. Another new addition to the company’s portfolio is Teslaflex, a new magnetic media that allows users to regularly change wall displays by applying ferrous-film, magnetic top layers onto a plain self-adhesive magnetic base layer. Teslaflex is available in a range of widths. Papergraphics’ Francesca Selby said the new substrates had been developed through a combination of customer research and in-house innovation at the near 80-staff business. “We think of oursleves as innovative – we listen to our customers and respond to their needs and its also really important for us to stay ahead of the market and develop new products that surprise and excite people,” she added....

The Crawley-based firm has created a buzz at Fespa with a silver wrapped double-decker bus as a centrepiece on its stand, decorated by international artist Insa. New products on show include Digimura Ag and Au wallpapers, which are silver and gold respectively. The PVC and polyester-mix papers, which come in 1,280mm x 30m rolls, can be printed onto with UV curable inks only and are applied to a pasted wall without the need to apply paste to the substrate. The new metallic range costs £13 per sq/m. Digimura 2.1 Silk, also launched this week, has joined the rest of the textured 2.1 family of Tactile, Smooth, Rude, Dune and Façade. All are available in 1300mm x 30m rolls at £7 per sq/m. Another new addition to the company’s portfolio is Teslaflex, a new magnetic media that allows users to regularly change wall displays by applying ferrous-film, magnetic top layers onto a plain self-adhesive magnetic base layer. Teslaflex is available in a range of widths. Papergraphics’ Francesca Selby said the new substrates had been developed through a combination of customer research and in-house innovation at the near 80-staff business. “We think of oursleves as innovative – we listen to our customers and respond to their needs and its also really important for us to stay ahead of the market and develop new products that surprise and excite people,” she added....

The BE LED will be available from September and is designed for short-run printed promotional items and packaging. The machine has a print area of 600mmx400mm and can handle thicknesses of up to 130mm. The device, which costs around £22,000, is driven by a Mutoh engine and uses Epson inkjet heads, printing at resolutions from 360x360dpi to 2880x1440dpi in CMYK plus white and gloss varnish. Ilkley-based SSE Worldwide has also launched the small format Eagle 30 and 60 UV Led small format flatbed printers to the UK market, at Fespa. The £35,000 and £45,000 printers are aimed at the signage and promotional product markets. The devices, which can print onto substrates and objects up to a depth of 250mm, run on a specifically designed RIP, Whiterip and currently use Epson DX5 printheads. Managing director Scott Armitage said that the first two UK buyers of the machine were expected to sign at Fespa, this week. “We’ve had a lot of interest on the stand this week so far, from plenty of international visitors as well as from the UK,” he added....

The BE LED will be available from September and is designed for short-run printed promotional items and packaging. The machine has a print area of 600mmx400mm and can handle thicknesses of up to 130mm. The device, which costs around £22,000, is driven by a Mutoh engine and uses Epson inkjet heads, printing at resolutions from 360x360dpi to 2880x1440dpi in CMYK plus white and gloss varnish. Ilkley-based SSE Worldwide has also launched the small format Eagle 30 and 60 UV Led small format flatbed printers to the UK market, at Fespa. The £35,000 and £45,000 printers are aimed at the signage and promotional product markets. The devices, which can print onto substrates and objects up to a depth of 250mm, run on a specifically designed RIP, Whiterip and currently use Epson DX5 printheads. Managing director Scott Armitage said that the first two UK buyers of the machine were expected to sign at Fespa, this week. “We’ve had a lot of interest on the stand this week so far, from plenty of international visitors as well as from the UK,” he added....

The new machine is targeted at the sign and display, corrugated and retail-ready packaging markets. The 10000 is capable of 312sqm/hour in ‘Sample Mode’ rising to 625 sqm/hr in “sellable” ‘PROD 125′ mode and has a bed size of 1,600×3,200mm. It can handle products up to 25mm thick. It features HP’s HDR (High Dynamic Range) technology, which is a combination of new HDR300 printheads, of which there are 312, coupled with new software algorithms for droplet placement and a new pigmented, high adhesion inkset, HDR240. Xavier Garcia, general manager of HP Scitex Wide Format Printing Solutions, said: “We’re are now able to control drop size, drop by drop and that creates a tonal range that replicates very closely high resolution systems like offset and flexo. This is the ‘magic of what the 10000 represents.” The new heads use what HP says is a patented technology that can apply different sized drops, 15, 30, 45 pico litre drops simultaneously by merging 15 Pico litre drops ‘mid air’. According to Garcia, this offers an equivalent resolution of 150 lines per inch (lpi). Shipping of the FB10000 will begin in November, although it is commercially available immediately on a “restricted basis”. The machine will initially be available as in six-colours (CMYK and Lc, Lm), but Garcia said that an upgrade path had been built into the system – suggesting more colours could be added. He said that white might also be a future option, depending on customer requirements. The 10000, which is running live on HP’s stand at Fespa, has been in development for three years and has been in beta testing at KL Druck in Germany for two months. The 10000 will be sold alongside the HP Scitex FB7600, but the features on the 10000 will not be retro-fittable to it. “Basically to introduce the 10000 technology we had to re-engineer the entire press. Architecturally it may look similar to he 7600, but the accuracy required for all the components mean you can multiply by 10 the complexity involved in its construction,” said Garcia....