Xeikon updates portfolio; Positive+ auctions spare kit; HP unveils Indigo 200K; and more...

[View in web browser]( [View text-only version]( [PrintWeek]( Wednesday 22 March 2023 [Daily news bulletin] [Sponsored by Quadient]( [Today's top stories] [Xeikon updates on new products]( [Xeikon updates on new products]( Xeikon has launched a new entry-level inkjet label press, and has several other new products in the development phase and likely to be unveiled later this year. [Positive+ auctions spare kit after successful installs]( [Positive+ auctions spare kit after successful installs]( Multi-discipline printer Positive+ has put up six wide-format presses, two laminators and two cutters up for sale after a series of HP Latex installations made them surplus to requirements. [HP unveils Indigo 200K]( [HP unveils Indigo 200K]( HP has launched its latest entry into the flexible packaging market, the digital mid-web 200K press. [UPM makes further reduction to uncoated capacity]( UPM has announced a further reduction in uncoated magazine paper capacity and has brought forward the shutdown of its Austrian newsprint mill. [Total refit for University of Leeds’ print centre]( The University of Leeds (UoL) installed a swathe of new Konica Minolta and Duplo kit after putting its print centre refit out to tender. [Sponsored content] [Good for your business, good for the planet]( [Good for your business, good for the planet]( As the much-maligned fashion industry looks to clean up its act, on-demand direct-to-fabric printing might just represent its, and your, biggest opportunity. [Discover how smart marketers are using print to drive digital engagement]( [Discover how smart marketers are using print to drive digital engagement]( [Yesterday's most read] [Crunch week to resolve Royal Mail dispute]( [Seven figure mail tender and bumper signage contract up for grabs]( [Snows Business Forms in administration]( [Blogs] [Newspaper bosses should look into a different kind of digital future]( Jo Francis considers the potential future opportunity in a market that's subject to massive decline. [In this issue] [The February and March issue is out now. Our ‘2023 Shortlist issue’ is jam-packed with the best the UK print industry has to offer as well as all the usual thought-provoking insights and the latest news and views...]( [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] [Business Development Executive Or Manager]( [Business Development Manager - Graphics And Signs]( [Print Finisher / Printer]( [Production Allrounder - Signs / Large Format Digital Print]( [Digital Print / Pack Cut / Pack Operator - Large Format]( [See the latest jobs]( [Knowledge Bank] [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. [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. [Is the decline in skilled print workers a cause for concern?]( [Is the decline in skilled print workers a cause for concern?]( On the face of it, statistics released recently that revealed the number of skilled tradespeople working in the print sector fell by 73% between 2006 and 2021 seem alarming. [Product portfolio] [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? [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. © MA Business Limited 2023. [Contact Us]( [Advertising]( [Subscribe]( If you wish to unsubscribe from Printweek Daily News 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](.