Hunkeler Innovationdays highlights; Haybrooke's PDQ price match feature; KM UK and Solimar partnership; Ultraflex; Fujifilm; and more...

[View in web browser]( [View text-only version]( [PrintWeek]( Friday 10 March 2023 [Product portfolio bulletin] [Top product news] [Busy and successful Hunkeler Innovationdays highlights sector advances]( [Busy and successful Hunkeler Innovationdays highlights sector advances]( [Busy and successful Hunkeler Innovationdays highlights sector advances]( Hunkeler Innovationdays has closed its doors after four very successful and busy days that saw the continuous-feed inkjet sector move well ahead of where it was in 2019 – the show’s previous outing. [Haybrooke launches price match feature for PDQ]( [Haybrooke launches price match feature for PDQ]( [Haybrooke launches price match feature for PDQ]( Print procurement specialist Haybrooke has gone live with a new feature in its PDQ print buying platform that will allow printers to automatically match the price of their competitors. [New partnership for KM UK and Solimar]( [New partnership for KM UK and Solimar]( [New partnership for KM UK and Solimar]( Konica Minolta has expanded its collaboration with Solimar Systems to include the UK. [More product news] [Ultraflex adds Agfa wide-format machines to stocklist]( Consumables supplier Ultraflex Europe has added Agfa’s Anapurna and Avinci wide-format machines to its product offering. [Fujifilm's Prime L flatbed now shipping]( Fujifilm’s Acuity Prime L flatbed is now commercially available. [Manroland Sheetfed streamlines after losses]( Manroland Sheetfed has streamlined its German operation with 140 jobs, around 15% of the workforce, going as a result. [Intergraf flags French law regulating mineral oils]( Intergraf has highlighted a French law regulating the use of mineral oils in printing inks, which it said is impacting the European market, including European printers placing printed products on the French market. [Agfa revamp writ large in results]( Agfa has pushed back completion of the sale of its Offset Solutions business by a week, as the group reported on a “transformative year” with the consequences writ large in its accounts. [HP’s Large Format business signs up to Printing Expo Online]( HP Large Format Printing has opened a booth at Printing Expo Online, as the free virtual exhibition continues to expand. [Knowledge Bank] [Best of British: Rewinding for the future]( [Best of British: Rewinding for the future]( Ashe Converting Equipment is a family-run firm with an international client base. [IGAS 2022: Tokyo story]( [IGAS 2022: Tokyo story]( Japan combines a modern high-tech industrialised economy with a lively print market that has led to a large number of printing equipment suppliers playing an outsize role internationally. So it’s always worth keeping an eye on the country’s premier print event, the International Graphic Arts Show or IGAS, to get an idea of some of the latest print tech that might be headed to the UK. [The protection racket]( [The protection racket]( Data protection issues are rarely far from the news. And as the recent ransomeware attack on Royal Mail in January illustrated, not only are they publicly embarrassing, they can be commercially disastrous both for the attacked organisation and its customers. [Use every possible tool to recoup costs]( [Use every possible tool to recoup costs]( Increasing general inflation, rising input prices, changes to taxation, demands for more pay – just some of the challenges that businesses, print or otherwise, are having to cope with. What with the pandemic and Brexit, all in all, this decade has become, so far, one to forget and it’s patently clear that print must get on with whatever is thrown at it. [VMC - back with a bang for the 10th anniversary]( [VMC - back with a bang for the 10th anniversary]( The BPIF’s Visual Media Conference (VMC) event returns to Leeds’ Rose Bowl on 4 April 2023, for the first time in three years. [Forward to a friend](mailto:?subject=Print%20industry%20news%20...&body=I%20thought%20you%20might%20be%20interested%20in%20this%20newsletter%20from%20PrintWeek:%20%20 [Got some news? Email the PrintWeek newsdesk here](mailto:printweek.newsdesk@markallengroup.com) [PrintWeek jobs] [Project Coordinator - Signage & Large Format Graphics]( [Digital Production Scheduler & Print Finisher – Machine Box Making (Crayford Location)]( [Account Manager – SAAS]( [Account Manager | Print Management & POS | South East]( [Account Development Manager]( [See the latest jobs]( [Who bought what] [Smurfit Kappa Chelmsford in £5.5m kit spend]( [Smurfit Kappa Chelmsford in £5.5m kit spend]( Smurfit Kappa Chelmsford has invested £5.5m in a Gopfert HBL machine to boost its print capability along with material handling for its conversion production areas. [Creative Bee flies into action with Mimaki install]( [Creative Bee flies into action with Mimaki install]( Creative Bee, the digital wide-format sister company of litho printer Creative Colour n Copy, has boosted production significantly after installing a new Mimaki JV100-160 roll-fed printer. [Symbiosis embraces life with new Kongsberg]( [Symbiosis embraces life with new Kongsberg]( Exhibition stand designer-builder Symbiosis has brought a significant amount of work in-house and expanded its repertoire with the installation of a Kongsberg C60 digital cutting table. [Minuteman Press King's Lynn boosts booklets with Duplo upgrade]( [Minuteman Press King's Lynn boosts booklets with Duplo upgrade]( The King's Lynn franchise of Minuteman Press has seen a “dramatic” increase in productivity after installing a new Duplo DBM-350 digital bookletmaker in October. [Product reviews] [Me & My: SwissQprint Nyala 4]( [Me & My: SwissQprint Nyala 4]( A grant of £54,200 from New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership’s (LEP) Growing Business Fund helped to fund a new 3.2x2m flatbed/roll printer at CIM Signs & Graphics, a sign printing and installation specialist based just to the north of Norwich. [Star product: HP PageWide Advantage 2200]( [Star product: HP PageWide Advantage 2200]( A high-quality, high-throughput inkjet web press flexible enough to change with the user’s needs. [Star product: Serif Affinity Version 2]( [Star product: Serif Affinity Version 2]( A fully featured yet very low-cost challenger to Adobe’s Creative Suite – with Pantone swatch libraries. What’s not to like? © MA Business Limited 2023. [Contact Us]( [Advertising]( [Subscribe]( If you wish to unsubscribe from Product Portfolio bulletin emails, please click [here](. To understand how we process, use & safeguard your data, please read our [Privacy Policy](. If you would like to update your marketing contact preferences, then please [click here](.