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The Pen Warehouse launches Samedaybags’
new site
hi-res digital pen printing bag printer Samedaybags.
On-demand promotional

com has launched a new
website offering t-shirts,
Trade merchandising sup- three-strong research and
plier Tancia, which trades as development team and an hoodies, and other promo-
The Pen Warehouse and unnamed New Zealand tional clothing delivered
Snap Products, has com- company. Tancia’s team within 24 hours. The site,
menced production with a developed the technology, Samedayprintwear.com,
pair of custom-built transfer with the other company went live in February to coin-
presses allowing the produc- building and testing the cide with the Merchandise
tion of pens printed at machinery. World event in Coventry.
300dpi. In production since Cleere declined to offer
the start of April, the two specifics on how the tech- Director of Samedaybags,
presses and applicator nology worked, other than Melvin Green, told
machine represent an Printweek that there was a
investment of £1.2m for the The technology, which Tancia calls UltraHD, prints up to 300dpi confirming that the huge demand for fast-turna-
company in the past six rent inkjet technology can cess would allow the com- machines printing onto the round promotional clothing.
months. wrap right around small cir- pany to take advantage of the transfers did not use inkjet Counting Glastonbury fes-
The technology, which cumference objects like ease of digital printing tech- technology. He said: “We, tival among its clients, the
Tancia calls UltraHD, offer pens – represent a new step niques, without having to the [merchandising] indus- Monmouthshire-based
“unparalleled” print quality for the industry. sacrifice print quality. try, we’re shrouded in
for the merchandising sec- Neil Cleere, managing The entire transfer and secrecy.” screen and digital print firm
tor, according to Tancia, director and founder of application process was built Now, however, the firm is started out selling novelty
which said the transferred Tancia, told Printweek that from the ground up in a part- taking on around 10 staff Christmas clothing, which it
prints – which, unlike cur- the new transfer-based pro- nership between Tancia’s every month. had printed externally.
Elevate Signs & Graphics brings Antalis to acquire

work in-house with HP install Integart Group

Elevate Signs & Graphics Antalis has signed a bind-
has brought a large amount ing offer to acquire the
of work in-house and Integart Group, to expand its
started to explore new mar- footprint in the visual com-
kets after installing a new munication market. With a
HP Latex 335 printer. consolidated turnover of
Founded by Adam Sharpe in €42m (£37.2m) and more
2021 after he was made than 200 employees in 2022,
redundant from a previous the Integart Group is a dis-
role during the pandemic, tributor of visual communi-
Falkirk-based Elevate Signs & The business has brought vehicle wraps in-house cation products,
Graphics offers a wide range on the market, the company spending tens of thousands headquartered in Poland Deal will expand its footprint
of print and signage services, installed the 1.6m-wide Latex of pounds with a trade print with offices in Czech tion in Eastern Europe and
including both indoor and 335 in December and the supplier, so not only will I Republic and Slovakia. The enhance the execution of our
outdoor signs, safety signage, machine immediately ena- group offers a wide range of growth plan in the visual
and vehicle wraps. bled it to bring work includ- have more control over jobs, large-format printing materi- communication market.”
Elevate Signs & Graphics ing vehicle wraps and signage but I will increase profit mar- als, textiles, and machinery
had initially been outsourc- panels in-house. gins. I have also employed my for various industries such as Sławomir Kot-Zaniewski,
ing a lot of printing work to a “The versatility of HP wife to help. We also do lots media, interior design, and president of the Integart
trade printer. This led Sharpe Latex technology was perfect of interior wrapping, so digi- construction. Group, added: “Since its
to explore the option of pur- for my business as we cover a tal wallpaper is also on the The deal was announced founding, our company has
chasing a machine that wide range of jobs,” said radar. We are always looking on Friday (21 April). Antalis grown to be a highly special-
would enable the business to Sharpe. “Both the cost-effec- CEO Hervé Poncin com- ised and reputable supplier of
bring work in-house and cut tiveness and quality of print into new possibilities, we mented: “The acquisition of visual communication solu-
its outsourcing costs. made the HP Latex 335 the don’t do as many window the Integart Group will tions and services for the
After weighing up options obvious choice for us. I was graphics as we would like.” strengthen our market posi- advertising industry.
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