INX Digital International Co. launched Prodigy, a new business division that will focus on the company’s Graphic Arts products and serve original equipment manufacturers, integrators and printhead companies within the digital market. Prodigy expands the company’s portfolio with a variety of dye textile products, such as acid, reactive and dispersed dye textile, as well as [...]

Bordeaux Digital PrintInk entered into a distribution deal with LFDP, one of Italy’s largest suppliers of wide-format digital printing solutions. Under the agreement, LFDP will distribute Bordeaux’s mild-solvent and eco-solvent inks compatible with Mimaki and Roland printers, as well as UV and UV-LED inks for wide inkjet printers. LFDP will provide technical support.

Graphics One and Kala Finishing Systems formed a distribution deal, bringing the Kala product line to North and South American markets. Kala is a European manufacturer of cold and hot laminators and a direct-to-fabric and dye-sublimation 67-inch calendar system.

Xerox will stop selling wide-format products in the United States and Canada by the end of 2011. Xerox’s European and Developing Market operations will continue selling wide-format products and sourcing new products. Customers will have access to service support, supplies, media and parts from Xerox for their existing equipment for a minimum of five years [...]

At a February hearing held by U.S. House subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, Marci Kinter, SGIA’s vice president of government and business information, shared concerns during the “Environmental Regulations, the Economy, and Jobs” hearing. SGIA’s presence gave a critical perspective on Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations that are affecting small businesses. The specific issue [...]

X-Rite will team with its wholly owned subsidiary, Pantone, to host a two-day educational color management seminar, May 17–18, in New York City, targeted at printing, packaging, pre-press and graphic design professionals. Topics include all aspects of color management, from process control and pressroom workflow, to color control for designers, spot color management and how [...]

GMG, a developer and supplier of high-end color management software solutions, signed an agreement with HP to jointly promote and market the GMG color management solutions in combination with HP Scitex wide-format printers. GMG has been awarded the HP Graphics Solutions Partner Gold level for 2011. GMG will offer a dedicated GMG ColorServer Suite for [...]

The National Association of Printing Ink Manufacturers Inc. (NAPIM) released a bulletin on issues facing the raw material printing ink market supply chain. The bulletin reviewed the availability of critical raw materials likely used in the inks that printers purchase in all of the major printing processes. Some of the key raw materials causing price [...]

Durst Phototechnik Digital Technology GmbH opened a subsidiary in Sao Paolo, Brazil. Durst Brazil’s own structure, spare parts and consumables, will help to lower import costs, provide higher service to customers and increase sales in the growing South American market.

Waste Not International, based in the UK, buys empty inkjet cartridges for wide-format printers. Through its collection program, Waste Not offers a generous return on empty cartridges and covers collection costs from all over the world. Unlike other incentives that offer credit or loyalty points, Waste Not deposits funds directly into participants’ accounts, via transfer. [...]