Southend-based printers, Solopress celebrate producing their 2,000,000th order after almost 20 years in business, marking the occasion by giving away a £1,200 tech bundle to one lucky customer. Nearly 2 years on from becoming a part of the Onlineprinters group, Solopress have gone from strength to strength, recently appointing Simon Cooper as their new Managing Director to head the industry-leading company. Hitting this milestone has been a huge success for the £30m turnover business which has had rapid growth over the past 14 years. A large part of Solopress' success can be attributed to their quick turnaround times. Solopress deliver around 77% of jobs within 24 hours and are supported by 19,000 customers who have rated them as 'Excellent' on Trustpilot.

D&K Europe has long been in the forefront of both narrow and wide format business graphic presentation, with a range of innovative products for mounting, laminating and encapsulating.

As a long-standing supplier to Bournemouth Airport, Signs Express Bournemouth were back this month for panel and post sign installation at Aviation Business Park East for airport owners, Rigby Group.
The two signs, consisting of panels over 4.5 metres in length each, are a substantial enhancement to the entrance of the business park, situated just off Matchams Lane in Hurn, Dorset.

Nimlok®, a division of Orbus Exhibit & Display Group®, raised over $3,000 for The Conservation Fund at the 2019 EXHIBITORLive trade show. Visitors to the Nimlok booth were tasked with building three foot trees using magnets or boxes. The “fun”draising at the show directly supported The Conservation Fund's tree planting efforts by providing 1,200 trees. The Conservation Fund plants trees in over 40,000 acres of forest, specifically in endangered ocelot habitations within the lower Rio Grande region.

From 14 to 17 May 2019 in Munich, Sihl will be showing a selected range of POS products with fire safety certification to verify that they are flame retardant (building material class B1) to DIN 4102-1.

Color-Logic has certified the HP Latex R2000 Printer with white ink. Discussing the printer certification, Color-Logic Director of Sales and Marketing Mark Geeves said: "The versatility of the HP Latex engine with white ink on a metallic substrate, in combination with the Color-Logic color communication system and design tools for embellishment, is a game changer for printers. Prints from the HP Latex engine are incredible and open up vast new markets and applications for Color-Logic software in point-of-purchase and signage markets. The test form file on metallic stock submitted for certification provided an extensive metallic color gamut. Moreover, the white ink, in conjunction with the Color-Logic Design Suite, properly displayed all Color-Logic decorative effects and embellishments."

On Stand G40 at Sign & Digital UK 2019, the Tamworth cutting tool experts will introduce its knife tool re-grinding service alongside the already comprehensive range of blades for digital cutting tables. Making its world premiere at the exhibition will be the new IRIDIS coated line of tools that deliver unprecedented tool life and surface finish performance on aluminium and aluminium composite materials (ACM).

Summa nv, a leading supplier of high-end cutting plotters and finishing systems, introduces the L1810 laser cutter, bringing advanced laser cutting technology to benefit the sportswear, apparel, swimwear, dye sublimation garments and technical textile markets.

Tilia Labs, a leading developer of planning, imposition, and Artificially Intelligent automation software solutions for the graphic arts industries, has launched 2019 with two new executive roles and a new North American office to support global growth and expansion. The appointments will help meet rising demand for its AI driven planning and imposition solutions across the entire printing and packaging industry, including labels, cartons, flexible packaging, corrugated, commercial print, signs and wide-format.

Signs express Swansea were thrilled to be involved with producing signs and graphics for the ‘Cefn Coed Remembered’ exhibition being held by Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board at Swansea Museum.

Print service providers can profitably produce a wide range of applications with the new Ricoh Pro VC20000 colour continuous feed inkjet press. These applications range from transactional print such as bills, statements and policy documents to books and direct mail.