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Xeikon will be demonstrating how it can help customers improve their communication through digital printing at the Hunkeler innovationdays 2011. This bi-annual event is expected to bring together more than 5000 leading practitioners from the printing industry, offering an excellent opportunity to present the company's extensive experience in Document Printing solutions.

Print service providers can discover how to transform their print infrastructures by visiting the Kodak stand at Hunkeler innovationdays 2011. Delegates can witness Kodak's Unified Workflow Solutions portfolio, the Kodak Versamark VL-Series Printing System, and for the first time at a major B2B trade show in Europe, the new Kodak Nexpress SX Digital Production Color Press with the long sheet option.

Printing companies are increasingly being judged by the environmental friendliness of their production. Efficient energy and resource consumption harbors the potential for an improved ecobalance and reduced operating costs. The manroland Ecometer delivers precise numbers for calculating, planning, and documenting steps you can take for sustainability.

Flint Group's Packaging and Narrow Web Division is pleased to record a series of successes at customers after having launched VarioLam AB, its new solvent-based ink series for the packaging market. The product range is based on a nitrocellulose and chlorine free polyurethane/acrylic binder system and is especially designed to meet the requirements of a broad range of high performance lamination applications.

Presstek, Inc., supplier of digital offset printing solutions to the printing and communications industries, has signed a distribution agreement with Adler Gruppe & Addxxion, distributor of graphic arts solutions in Egypt. Under the terms of the agreement, Adler Gruppe will distribute and service Presstek's complete product portfolio, including thermal plates, CTP solutions and DI digital offset presses.

The deadline for entries to the Heidelberg ECO Printing Award presented by Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) will be end of February 2011.

Reproflex3 Ltd, a leading packaging pre-media specialist in Newcastle is planning a move to larger premises as a result of the significant boost in production capacity using a Kodak Flexcel NX Digital Flexographic System. Installed in April 2010, the integrated system comprises the Kodak Flexcel NX Thermal Imaging Layer, a Kodak Flexcel NX Imager and a Kodak Flexcel NX Laminator.

Dresden-based Kama GmbH is exhibiting at the Hunkeler Innovationdays in Lucerne, Switzerland, (14–17 February 2011) for the first time, and will be presenting a solution for efficient finishing of small to medium runs in a small format.

DNS and Nautilus ReFresh Triotec – new products from Mondi's digital printing and environmental paper portfolios – will be showcased along with Mondi's entire uncoated fine paper portfolio.

PrintCity Alliance members Cofely, manroland, Océ and UPM are organising a Publishing Trends Summit jointly with GIPP, the Russian Guild of Press Publishers, to take place in Yekaterinburg, Russia on February 16, 2011.