The PrintWeek team will be decamping to produce the Daily live from the showfloor at London’s Excel in a specially built newsroom on the PrintWeek stand, M90S in the digital hall. The FespaDaily will be published in English and German. The 32-page publication will cover all of the show news as it happens: the deals, the launches and everything in between. In addition, it will offer insightful and thought provoking analysis of some of the key trends at the landmark event. The six-strong editorial team’s key objective will be to ensure that no delegate’s visit to the show is complete without securing their copy of FespaDaily, which will be available at all of the entrances, registration points and other high-traffic areas. “Fespa is the key international event in the wide-format sector in 2013 and it will offer an unparalleled opportunity to see where the industry is heading now and in the future. So actually reporting the latest news live from the show floor is critical – and it’s what we do best,” said PrintWeek editor Darryl Danielli. For the first time, PrintWeek will be producing the FespaDaily in collaboration with Digital Textile magazine, part of the World Textile Information Network. The Digital Textile team will be producing textile news live from the show, as well as a number a textile focussed features for the Daily. As well as producing the FespaDaily, the PrintWeek team will also be producing a daily email bulletin that will be sent to more than 40,000 key players in the wide-format sector, which, along with the Daily, will ensure that all the latest news and views of the world’s largest wide-format show will be broadcast to the global industry’s leading players. You can register for the Fespa bulletin here. If you have any news during or in the run-up to and during the show, please email fespa.daily@markallengroup.com or complete the attached press release template available here. For advertising enquiries, email angela.koduah@markallengroup.com....

The PrintWeek team will be decamping to produce the Daily live from the showfloor at London’s Excel in a specially built newsroom on the PrintWeek stand, M90S in the digital hall. The FespaDaily will be published in English and German. The 32-page publication will cover all of the show news as it happens: the deals, the launches and everything in between. In addition, it will offer insightful and thought provoking analysis of some of the key trends at the landmark event. The six-strong editorial team’s key objective will be to ensure that no delegate’s visit to the show is complete without securing their copy of FespaDaily, which will be available at all of the entrances, registration points and other high-traffic areas. “Fespa is the key international event in the wide-format sector in 2013 and it will offer an unparalleled opportunity to see where the industry is heading now and in the future. So actually reporting the latest news live from the show floor is critical – and it’s what we do best,” said PrintWeek editor Darryl Danielli. For the first time, PrintWeek will be producing the FespaDaily in collaboration with Digital Textile magazine, part of the World Textile Information Network. The Digital Textile team will be producing textile news live from the show, as well as a number a textile focussed features for the Daily. As well as producing the FespaDaily, the PrintWeek team will also be producing a daily email bulletin that will be sent to more than 40,000 key players in the wide-format sector, which, along with the Daily, will ensure that all the latest news and views of the world’s largest wide-format show will be broadcast to the global industry’s leading players. You can register for the Fespa bulletin here. If you have any news during or in the run-up to and during the show, please email fespa.daily@markallengroup.com or complete the attached press release template available here. For advertising enquiries, email angela.koduah@markallengroup.com....

The Manchester-based company has just been named Green Business of the Year in the Pride of Tameside Awards, with managing director Duarte Goncalves carrying off the trophy for Business Person of the Year. DXG has recently completed a major upgrade of its facilities, which included the installation of a five-colour Heidelberg Speedmaster CD102 LX2 and the latest version of Heidelberg’s ImageControl system, which has also been linked to its existing five-colour Speedmaster CD74 LX. The CD102 is a 2011 model and came from an Italian printer with just 18m impressions on the clock. It was supplied by Albion Machinery. “I can’t speak of them highly enough, they’ve been absolutely excellent,” Goncalves said. DXG gained a 20% Regional Growth Fund grant for the purchase through Lombard, a process Goncalves described as straightforward and “really user-friendly”. “I’d encourage other companies to look at it,” he said. The firm employs 30 staff and runs 24/5. It specialises in rapid turnaround, high-quality litho and digital printing and serves a range of blue-chip clients, predominantly in the North West. “Quality and service are important to us. There is no point in trying to compete on price with the really cheap people out there,” Goncalves stated. “We always use triple-coated stock, and clients love the results we get with hybrid screening. Having a 24-hour finishing department means we can produce a lot of work, incredibly quickly.” DXG has also revamped its MIS and recently went live with Tharstern’s Primo system. “Primo gives me instant information, real-time figures that will help us to make better decisions,” he added. Goncalves also said he had noticed a change of sentiment about media spend among some of the firm’s key clients. “Big companies are starting to spend on print again. It’s all very well doing emails and having a nice website, but print is effective even as a standalone communication. It’s still got life in it.”...

The Manchester-based company has just been named Green Business of the Year in the Pride of Tameside Awards, with managing director Duarte Goncalves carrying off the trophy for Business Person of the Year. DXG has recently completed a major upgrade of its facilities, which included the installation of a five-colour Heidelberg Speedmaster CD102 LX2 and the latest version of Heidelberg’s ImageControl system, which has also been linked to its existing five-colour Speedmaster CD74 LX. The CD102 is a 2011 model and came from an Italian printer with just 18m impressions on the clock. It was supplied by Albion Machinery. “I can’t speak of them highly enough, they’ve been absolutely excellent,” Goncalves said. DXG gained a 20% Regional Growth Fund grant for the purchase through Lombard, a process Goncalves described as straightforward and “really user-friendly”. “I’d encourage other companies to look at it,” he said. The firm employs 30 staff and runs 24/5. It specialises in rapid turnaround, high-quality litho and digital printing and serves a range of blue-chip clients, predominantly in the North West. “Quality and service are important to us. There is no point in trying to compete on price with the really cheap people out there,” Goncalves stated. “We always use triple-coated stock, and clients love the results we get with hybrid screening. Having a 24-hour finishing department means we can produce a lot of work, incredibly quickly.” DXG has also revamped its MIS and recently went live with Tharstern’s Primo system. “Primo gives me instant information, real-time figures that will help us to make better decisions,” he added. Goncalves also said he had noticed a change of sentiment about media spend among some of the firm’s key clients. “Big companies are starting to spend on print again. It’s all very well doing emails and having a nice website, but print is effective even as a standalone communication. It’s still got life in it.”...

New for the June and July programme will be sessions on ‘Shortcuts to make it quicker and easier to navigate in SBS,’ ‘An Introduction to the new 5.3 Milestone module,’ and ‘An introduction to the Shuttleworth MIS’. Each webinar will be held at different times on 20 June, then repeated again on 12 July. The new sessions will join topics already established in April and May webinars ‘How to keep your database tidy’ and ‘How to set up events and filters to manage customer service and sales,’ which will both be repeated on 18 June and 2 July. Dawn Safford, implementation and marketing at Shuttleworth, said the developer expected the enhanced programme to boost webinar attendance, from around 350 attendances throughout the year in 2012, to around 450 this year. She said: “Webinars are a great way to keep informed; they are environmentally friendly, save time and users get to appreciate new developments that otherwise they would not see. “The webinar attendance is increasing year on year and we have experienced a record number of customers registering to attend the new 2013 webinar programme.” The webinars are free for Shuttleworth customers, with each taking around 30 minutes to complete. Meanwhile Shuttleworth will also exhibit at Fespa next month with the latest developments in its MIS software, which it claims is the “ultimate tool” for customer facing wide-format printers. Other developments on show will be its new supply chain management product, a new iPhone and iPad CRM app and its new Business Intelligence suite....