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Helping printers and installers conquer their graphics application challenges, MACtac® Graphic Products has added REBEL™ RB599H to its line of versatile screen and digital print media. REBEL RB599H features a high-gloss, clear facestock for borderless graphics and an aggressive high-tack adhesive designed for excellent bonding to low-surface energy and other difficult-to-stick-to substrates, such as polyethylene, vinyl, arena dasherboards and a selection of graphic art boards.

“Our REBEL product line is the most versatile in the industry,” said Mary Ann Kucera, marketing manager, MACtac Graphic Products. “With the addition of REBEL RB599H and its clear, no-decal look and aggressive adhesive strength, MACtac is offering printers even more print flexibility and consistent high performance for a wide range of applications.”

REBEL RB599H is a 4.0-mil flexible, clear gloss, PVC film designed for medium- to long-term outdoor advertising and promotion on flat or slightly-curved surfaces. It can be screen or wide-format printed for indoor and outdoor signage, graphics, point-of-purchase (POP) displays and decals. REBEL RB599H is coated on one side with an aggressive clear, acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive and features a 90# SuperFlat™ C2S polycoated liner for excellent layflat.

REBEL RB599H features an outdoor durability of five years and indoor durability of up to seven years.

The full line of MACtac Graphic Products: IMAGin®, PERMACOLOR®, MACmark® and REBEL™, provides a pressure-sensitive solution for every signage need. Whatever technology - wide-format digital printing, mounting and laminating, CAS or screen printing - MACtac has you covered.

For more information regarding MACtac products or graphic solutions, call a graphics representative at 866.622.8223, email MACtac.Americas@bemis.com or visit www.MACtac.com/Graphics and www.TheApplicationNation.com

Xerox has teamed up with its distributor Everything for Signs to find out what people who have invested in the HP range of latex printers need in terms of media. They have designed and tested a range of media specifically for the HP25500 printers.

Sandy Gray, M.D. of Everything for Signs (EFS) comments, “These are amazing new printers, but the technology is so advanced that people really do need a range of media specifically for this type of printer. The speed and temperature involved means that a lot of standard media is not suitable. Fortunately when we spoke to Xerox about this they were already aware of the problems and working on a solution. They have now designed and tested a wide range of products on the HP25500 including paper, gloss and matt vinyl, canvas, banner material, banner mesh and a polyester rollup/popup material which will stand up to the heat generated by the HP Latex.”

All of these products are now available from stock. Profiles for all of these materials are available to download from the EFS website:
www.everythingforsigns.co.uk

We suggested in our August 3rd article Big Hitters in the Ink Market, that the time was coming when we would see some of these bigger ink players entering the digital print arena...

Van Son Holland Ink Corporation today announced it is launching a new line of Premium Wide Format Ink jet inks for Epson, Mimaki, Mutoh and Roland printers. Van Son will introduce its new line of inks at Graph Expo 2011 being held at McCormick Place in Chicago on Sept. 11-14. Van Son developed its new line of Premium Wide Format Ink jet inks in response to the growing wide format inkjet market demand for an efficient alternative to major printer manufacturer’s inks.

With a well-respected reputation for manufacturing inks with incredible print quality and colour brilliance, Van Son’s cost-effective wide format inkjet inks improve wide format printing performance by offering better adhesion on a wide range of substrates. Offered in both easy-to-use cartridges and economical bulk packaging, the product line includes:

• Real Solvent inks designed for Mimaki JV3, JV33 and JV5 printers. These inks have a strong outdoor durability, are extremely fast drying, and have increased print head durability.
• Eco Solvent ink for improving printing performance with better adhesion on substrates including flex, PVC, and vinyl. The Eco Solvent inks to do not emit harmful VOCs, eliminating the need for forced ventilation.
• Pigment and Dye inks were created for Epson Piezo Head printers. With excellent print performance on a wide variety of media, the inks provide highly intense colour with a wide colour gamut, strong head durability, and enhanced fade resistance.
• Power Chrome Pigment inks that increase the density levels to optimize compatibility on most media types and is engineered to produce incredible print quality and colour brilliance equivalent to dye based inks.
• Dye Sublimination inks that can be used with direct printing on fabrics without the need for intermediary heat transfer paper. With a particle size less than 100 nm there is virtually no possibility of head clogging.

“We are very excited to bring to market an ink that will serve the wide format printers and the graphic arts industry.” said Joseph Bendowski, CEO of Van Son Holland Ink Corporation of America. “As companies invest in new technologies, our wide format inks will increase pressroom efficiencies as well as provide an answer to environmental concerns that are so important to the industry today.”

Xennia Technology, the world’s leading industrial inkjet solutions provider, announces today the appointment of Mr Laurie Geldenhuys, as Commercial Director, responsible for growing Xennia’s global business.

Dr Alan Hudd, Xennia’s Managing Director, comments: “Xennia has many years of knowledge and experience in developing inkjet inks for a variety of important applications. With this game-changing appointment we are driving the commercialisation of our existing developments, making ink central to our business.”

Xennia has a state-of-the-art high capacity ink manufacturing facility complete with the latest technology and equipment after a significant financial investment fully supported by Xennia’s parent company, TenCate. Xennia sells a range of XenInx high performance inks for a number of applications including textiles, ceramics, graphics, glass and industrial product decoration.

Mr Geldenhuys, formerly Global Business Director of SunJet, the digital division of Sun Chemical, collectively has many years’ experience in the Paint, Coatings and Inks industries. Whilst at SunJet, Mr Geldenhuys achieved dynamic growth at the OEM level on a global basis in graphics, coding & marking, labels, industrial decoration, edible inks and other applications across solvent, aqueous, oil and UV ink chemistries.

“In my new role, the primary goal is to make Xennia the ink supplier of choice to OEM customers across a range of key applications including textiles, ceramics, labels, packaging and graphics,” said Mr Geldenhuys. “I look forward to working with Xennia’s highly experienced and knowledgeable team to fully commercialise a number of significant existing ink development projects and take Xennia’s ink business to the next level.”

Triga Systems, a manufacturer and exported of the patented Triga wide-format fabric tensioning hardware system, has announced plans to set up a manufacturing hub in the UK to service the needs of suppliers in the retail display, exhibition building and events industries.  Joint-venture fabric print partners are being sought for the move into the country.

Since its launch at FESPA 3 years ago, Triga has become one of the world's fastest-growing tensioned-fabric, modular display systems.  Combining LCD displays, shelving and merchandising prongs into seamless fabric backdrops of any width, the company now supplies premium brand owners with a host of standard and custom-made modular structures across multiple industries.

Triga has serviced the display requirements of major brands including Google, Audi, Land Rover, Mercedes Benz, Sealy, Fisher Price, Coca–Cola, Red Bull and HP.  Its solutions are currently sold through a dealer network, with sub-manufacturing hubs established in North America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Italy. For more info visit www.trigasystems.com
 

Neschen has launched what it claims is its best anti-graffiti film yet.  Called Solvoclear Easy Protect, it is a low-priced, general purpose anti-graffiti film which is able to retain its glossy appearance even after having been surface cleaned several times. 

Solvoclear Easy Protect is ideally suited for indoor and outdoor use with traditional photo prints, inkjet and digital print media including paper, polyester and vinyl. 

It is manufactured from OPP (oriented polypropylene), an environmentally-friendly material composed of only carbon and hydrogen, with a high gloss finish.  It has a siliconised white backing paper and a clear solvent acrylic adhesive on one side and delivers high UV protection. 

Sarah Janes, managing director of Neschen UK, says "This new protective film is easy to handle and extremely well priced but what sets it head and shoulders above anything else manufactured so far is that it is highly resistant to a large number of detergents and solvents and - importantly - stays glossy after cleaning after cleaning after cleaning.  It does not become matt as other films do." 

Correctly applied, Neschen's Solvoclear Easy Protect has an expected life span of several years. 

For further information visit neschen.com

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