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Lifetime achievement award goes to Chinese label industry’s founding father

Professor Tan Junqiao chosen as the recipient of the R. Stanton Avery Lifetime Achievement Award Professor Tan Junqiao, founder and honorary chairman of the China Label Sub Association of the Printing and Printing Equipment Industries Association of China (PEIAC), has been chosen as the recipient of the R. Stanton Avery Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2017 Label Industry Global Awards. Judging for the 14th annual awards program took place during the FINAT European Label Forum (ELF) in Berlin, where the judging panel met to consider entries…

Young people are the future of the sign industry in the UK

Nominations are closing shortly for the BSGA ‘Young Sign Maker of the Year’ award sponsored by Roland DG. Offered in recognition of the next generation of hardworking talent emerging in the UK sign industry, nominations for the BSGA ‘Young Sign Maker of the…
HP Indigo 12000 Digital Press

HP to showcase new business growth opportunities at photokina 2016

 HP announced that it will showcase the latest capabilities for top quality printing at photo finishers and professional labs at photokina (20-25 September 2016, Cologne, Germany). At HP’s booth (Hall 4.2), visitors to photokina will see the HP Indigo 12000…
Rob Goleniowski demonstrating the LEF-20 at the VersaUV Experience Day

VersaUV Experience Day by Roland DG was successful

Roland DG event attended by many partners and customers Clevedon in the UK was the host area for Roland DG UK’s UK’s first VersaUV Experience Day. There was a focus on versatility and a variety of profitable applications were shown across a wide range of…

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LabelExpo

Lifetime achievement award goes to Chinese label industry’s founding father

Professor Tan Junqiao chosen as the recipient of the R. Stanton Avery Lifetime Achievement Award Professor Tan Junqiao, founder and honorary chairman of the China Label Sub Association of the Printing and Printing Equipment Industries Association of China…

Young people are the future of the sign industry in the UK

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HP Indigo 12000 Digital Press

HP to showcase new business growth opportunities at photokina 2016

 HP announced that it will showcase the latest capabilities for top quality printing at photo finishers and professional labs at photokina (20-25 September 2016, Cologne, Germany). At HP’s booth (Hall 4.2), visitors to photokina will see the HP Indigo 12000…
Rob Goleniowski demonstrating the LEF-20 at the VersaUV Experience Day

VersaUV Experience Day by Roland DG was successful

Roland DG event attended by many partners and customers Clevedon in the UK was the host area for Roland DG UK’s UK’s first VersaUV Experience Day. There was a focus on versatility and a variety of profitable applications were shown across a wide range of…
MTEX 5032HS at Sign UK

First Appearance Of MTEX 5032HS In UK

MTEX celebrated a year of continued growth and innovation at Sign & Digital UK. MTEX showcased one of its five new models launched during 2015 – the high speed version of its MTEX 5032 printer as it celebrated a year of outstanding growth and innovation at…
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IDS Wins Red Dot Award

USB 3 uEye XC industrial camera’s unconventional design quality demonstrates individuality. German based Imaging Development Systems (IDS), has received a Red Dot award for its innovative USB 3.0 industrial camera. The company is one of the leading global…

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Xerox is splitting their company in two.

Jeff Jacobson has been appointed to the Board of Xerox. Jeffrey Jacobson, who is president of the Xerox Technology business, has been appointed to the Xerox Board of Directors following the completion of the company’s planned separation into two publicly…
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Soyang Europe Strengthens Sales Team

Company appoints Kerrie-Anne Moore to push sales in self-adhesive materials market. Soyang Europe has beefed up its sales team with the appointment of self-adhesive specialist Kerrie-Anne Moore. Her new role will see her spearhead Soyang’s new range of…
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Burns To Chair New Xerox Company

Xerox confirms Ursula Burns as head of post-separation Document Technology Company. It was announced on 20 May 2016 by the Board of Directors of Xerox that Ursula Burns will take over the reins as chairman of the board of the Document Technology Company…
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IIJ Beefs-Up Technical Support

Two new appointments made to help support the company’s growing customer base globally. Industrial Inkjet Ltd (IIJ) has appointed two new technical specialists to strengthen and help support the company’s systems for a growing customer base globally.
Stuart Morrison

New Technical Service Engineer At Durst UK

Durst appoints Stuart Morrison as technical applications specialist. Stuart Morrison has joined Durst UK as a Technical Service Engineer, specialising in technical applications.
Nigel Bond, CEO of UK based Domino Printing Sciences

Brother Goes Outside ‘The Box’

Nigel Bond now part of the Brother Executive Management Team. Nigel Bond, CEO of UK based Domino Printing Sciences, has become a member of the Brother Executive Management Team. The appointment came into effect 1 April, 2016.

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"Our nation has lost its greatest son. Our people have lost a father. Although we knew that this day would come, nothing can diminish our sense of a profound and enduring loss."


President Jacob Zuma

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Appointment of Nikolaus Nowak completes

leadership team quartet at the company.

Kornit Digital Europe - Leadership team from left - Wilfried Kampe, Oliver Luedtke, Monika Morck and Nikolaus NowakKornit Digital Europe - Leadership team from left - Wilfried Kampe, Oliver Luedtke, Monika Morck and Nikolaus NowakKornit Digital Europe has announced that Nikolaus Nowak has been appointed Customer Service and Logistics Manager in a move which completes the quartet that now makes up the experienced leadership team at the company’s Düsseldorf head-quarters.

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Press release from the issuing company.

John MillsJohn Mills2nd April, Cambridge, UK - Inca Digital, the inkjet printing specialist, today announces the appointment of Dr John Mills as CEO with immediate effect.

John has extensive experience of developing and commercialising advanced industrial technologies, specifically in the fields of inkjet and plastic electronics. Holding a PhD in Physics, his senior roles have included Director of Development with Domino Printing Sciences, Vice President and COO at Plastic Logic and, for the last four and a half years, CEO of DataLase.

John is looking forward to making a contribution at Inca and says “Inca Digital is a world-class company at the forefront of digital printing technology and I am very excited about working with such an experienced team to take the company to even greater success. Inca changed how the industry produced wide-format print and we have the potential to develop ‘game -changing’ digital print solutions that provide considerable production value and efficiency to new markets.”

Commenting on the appointment, Nigel Puttergill, Inca Chairman, said “It’s a great pleasure to welcome John to Inca. He brings considerable strategic, operational and commercial expertise to the company and he will be instrumental in guiding and growing the business.”

Bill Baxter will remain on the Inca Board along with the other serving officers: Yoshinari Otani, Chief Operating Officer; Stephen Tunnicliffe Wilson, Director of R&D; Dominique Marciniak, Finance Director and Nigel Puttergill, Chairman

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Here is a story sent to me by Cyril Tierney.

It's a series of photos of a dog being saved. Look at them through to the end.Go down the left column and then the right.

No need to say a word. Read the final comment.

Dog being saved

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A GERMAN TOURIST JUMPED IN THE FREEZING WATER AND SAVED MY PRECIOUS LITTLE DOG.
UPON GETTING BACK ON THE BRIDGE, HE CHECKED MY PUPPY OUT AND TOLD ME,


"ZE DOG IS OK. HE VILL BE FINE."


Due to his selfless heroic act, I ASKED, "ARE YOU A VET?"


HE REPLIED,


"VET? I'M FUCKING SOAKED!"

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  • Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.
  • Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.
  • Intaxicaton: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
  • Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
  • Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stop bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
  • Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.
  • Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high
  • Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
  • Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
  • Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)
  • Karmageddon: its like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.
  • Decafalon (n.): The gruelling event of getting through the day consuming only things that is good for you.
  • Glibido: All talk and no action.
  • Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
  • Arachnoleptic Fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.
  • Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
  • Caterpallor (n.): The colour you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.

The Washington Post has also published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words.

And the winners are:

  • Coffee, n. The person upon whom one coughs.
  • Flabbergasted, adj. Appalled by discovering how much weight one has gained.
  • Abdicate, v. To give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
  • Esplanade, v. To attempt an explanation while drunk.
  • Willy-nilly, adj. Impotent.
  • Negligent, adj. absentmindedly answering the door when wearing only a nightgown.
  • Lymph, v. To walk with a lisp.
  • Gargoyle, n. Olive-flavoured mouthwash.
  • Flatulence, n. Emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has been run over by a steamroller.
  • Balderdash, n. A rapidly receding hairline.
  • Testicle, n. A humorous question on an exam.
  • Rectitude, n. The formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.
  • Pokemon, n. A Rastafarian proctologist.
  • Oyster, n. A person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.
  • Frisbeetarianism, n. The belief that, after death, the soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.
  • Circumvent, n. An opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men

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