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Brother UK has raised £22,909 for Cancer
Research UK with the help of distribution
partners Exertis, Exertis Supplies, JGBM, Midwich,
Northamber, Vow and UFP. As part of Brother’s Big
Summer Challenge, more than 500 people from
these companies undertook a variety of fund-
raising events including skydiving, the Three Peaks
challenge and kayaking down the River Thames.
In the last 12 months, Brother has raised £33,775
for charity.
Rising to the challenge
OKI creates new car
livery for Mat Jackson
To mark its sponsorship of the Motorbase
Performance Team, OKI has created a new
car livery for Dunlop MSA British Touring
Car Championship driver Mat Jackson.
Printed on an OKI Colour Painter wide-format
printer, the livery was used for the last two rounds
of the season at the Silverstone race weekend
(September 17-18) and the Brands Hatch GP
(October 1-2).
OKI is now inviting designers to create their
own car wrap and upload it to the Print My Ride
website, which goes live on October 11. There,
they can apply it to a virtual car, enjoy 3D views
from all angles and submit online showroom
photos for judging by an expert panel.
Awards are being given for ‘Most creative
design’, ‘Design that best utilises the OKI printer’s
capabilities’, ‘Judge’s favourite’ and ‘Wild Card’.
Prizes on offer range from a model car wrapped in
the winner’s design to an ‘all expenses paid’ trip to
a 2017 Formula One Grand Prix event.
It’s got your name on it!
Altodigital is inviting visitors to its stand
at The Print Show 2016 to take away
a chocolate bar wrapped with their
personalised information, designed, printed
and finished within minutes using an end-
to-end web-to-print solution based on
technology from Altodigital, Infigo Software
and finishing specialist Duplo.
The solution includes Infigo Software’s intuitive
Catfish platform for capturing bespoke variable
data and MegaEdit Pro for producing beautifully
designed printed products. Designs will be printed
on a Canon imagePRESS C700, before being
finished on a Duplo DC-616.
In another bid to encourage visitors to
experience the benefits of web-to-print processes,
Altodigital will be offering complimentary
high volume prints of business
cards, posters and
postcards.
DMC Canotec smashes
fund-raising target again
DMC Canotec has smashed its charity
fund-raising target for the second quarter
in a row, reaching its half-year goal an
entire month early.
The Croydon-based distributor is aiming
to raise £10,000 for the Starlight Children’s
Foundation, which grants once-in-a-lifetime
wishes for seriously and terminally ill children. It
is doing this through staff fund-raising activities
and by making a 25p donation for every
planitgreen toner sold.
DMC Canotec hit its Q1 target of £2,500
in the first week of June and repeated the
achievement in Q2, reaching its £5,000 goal at
the start of September.
By the middle of the month, it had already
raised £6,617.86, enough for 25 Starlight
Distraction Boxes, 167 places at a Starlight
Party and 129 Starlight Pantomime places.
DMC Canotec employees have played a big
part in this success, giving up their spare time
to raise funds through a variety of activities,
from hill walking and long distance running to
swimming and charity car boot sales.
Supporters can make donations to Starlight
Children’s Foundation via the planitgreen
team’s Virgin Money Giving account at
www.
virginmoneygiving.com/team/planitgreen
.
Epson printer is just
the ticket
For the second year running, Epson is
donating a SureColor SC-T5200 large format
four-colour inkjet printer as the star prize
in The Print Show’s Golden Ticket Prize
Draw. The draw will take place at the event
being held on October 11-13 at the NEC,
Birmingham.
Last year’s winner of an aqueous SureColor
SC-T5200 was Emma Tomlinson from Carton Edge
in Coventry, who is now using it to produce the
company’s exhibition stand display graphics and
posters, as well as some marketing brochures and
flyers.
Visitors to the Colourbyte stand will see a range
of models from Epson’s SureColor Series, including
the 64-inch SC-S80600 9/10 colour eco-solvent
signage printer; the 24-inch SC-P7000 eight
colour, large format aqueous proofer/printer; the
ColorWorks C7500 Series label printer; and the
Epson SureColor SC-F series of dye sublimation
printers.
It’s a wrap!
Carisma, a New York-based large format
print business, made the most the Massivit
1800 3D Printer’s fast print speed and
attention-grabbing 3D output in the
run-up to the launch of Sony Pictures’
supernatural comedy Ghostbusters.
To promote the film, it created 10 eye-
catching, 14-foot bus wraps 3D printed with the
iconic ‘No Ghost’ logo. The wraps were printed
in robust Dimengel material over a 10-day
period before being fixed as illuminated 3D
printed wraps to a fleet of double-decker buses.
Carisma’s Ghostbusters campaign follows an
earlier project with Sony Pictures, for which it
produced similarly striking 3D printed bus wraps
for The Angry Birds Movie.
Lesley Howe, channel development manager
at Brother UK, presents Anne Hillion of Cancer
Research UK with a cheque for £22,909.
DMC Canotec’s Ringwood Ramblers doing their
bit on the 19-mile Purbeck Plod in Dorset
