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Queensland is the next state to hold one of Orafol's 'Creative Hub' wrapping courses. This time it targets Auto Restyling Colour Change and is held at the premises of Upgrade Studio, conveniently located about halfway between Brisbane CBD and the Gold Coast at Stapylton. Dates are Monday Oct 17 to Tuesday Oct 18 - so act fast to register.
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Tomorrow, October 7th (N. America timezones) is Sign MFG Day 2022, featuring over seventy companies who will open their manufacturing facilities to highlight careers in signs, graphics and visual communications. While Australia has its excellent ASGA/AusSIP Sign Careers roadshows, the idea of Sign shops opening their doors to show real production, takes attracting trainees to a whole new level. Would it work here?
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Five of Agfa’s inkjet printing solutions have won Printing United Alliance Pinnacle Product awards that recognise ‘exceptional contributions in quality, capability, and productivity.’
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Akita Epson Corporation, a subsidiary of Seiko Epson, will invest 3.5 billion yen ($A37 million) to build a new factory that will triple its production capacity of PrecisionCore printheads for inkjet printers to meet the predicted growth in demand.
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Mimaki’s eco-solvent JV330-160 printer, launched in February 2022, has received a PRINTING United Alliance 2022 Pinnacle Product Award for Roll-to-Roll Solvent/Latex (under 80 in/203 cm).
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The European energy crisis – on top of the pandemic and increasing paper prices – has left many printing companies in a "critical" situation, according to European printing industry association Intergraf.
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X-Rite and Pantone will showcase its next generation of colour measurement hardware at this month’s Printing United Expo in Las Vegas. The eXact 2 features 'video targeting technology and integrated cloud-based software in one handheld device.'
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ColorLogic, a subsidiary of Hybrid Software Group, has released its latest profiling solution CoPrA 9 - “a control centre for ICC colour profiling in any colour space.”
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Signage company Mesh Direct used several substrates to transform Hymix Australia's newest site in Sydney with custom Aboriginal designs.
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EFI has won three categories in the Printing United Pinnacle 2022 Awards. For sign and display printers, EFI IQ for Display Graphics won in the Workflow/MIS/CRM sector while EFI Fiery Prep-It won In Premedia & Prepress. A special collaboration with Konica Minolta in print finishing also awarded Fiery Imposition Software.
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MUTOH had added to its haul of Printing United Pinnacle Awards with a new collection of 5 'best of' categories in the latest 2022 series, announced prior to the Printing United expo. The Awards cover Roll-to-roll, Flatbed and Hybrid models.
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Tickets are selling fast for this month’s Women in Print’s Print & Prosecco evening in Brisbane after a sellout event in Sydney. The industry group last week released its Women in Print Gender Equality in the Workplace report.
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Bookings are open for the ASGA WA Sign & Print Golf Day 2022 at the Wembley Golf Club in Perth on Thursday, October 20. A pre-golf networking event will be held the night before at The Camfield in Burswood.
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Italian paper giant Fedrigoni – acquired this year by equity firms Bain Capital and BC Partners - has signed a manufacturing partnership with US papermaker Mohawk to strengthen its position in the global specialty paper market for graphics and packaging. The deal “carries the potential” to lead to an acquisition.
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All signees know Corflute ® - which is actually a trade mark of Corex Plastics Australia. The generic term might be 'fluted board' or 'corrugated plastic sheet' and it is known as Coroplast in the USA, plus dozens of other names elsewhere. It's extruded from Polypropylene, is lightweight but strong, waterproof and IS recyclable. But did you know it has hundreds of other uses besides flat signage? Andy McCourt found one surprise example on a trip to Anaconda - a boat.
- Charmaine Moldrich to step down as CEO of OMA
- New FUJIFILM printheads for aqueous ceramic inks
- Brett Martin goes sustainable for plastic sheets at K 2022
- Avon Graphics buys embellishment specialist Lorimier
- WOO APAC Forum to highlight OOH growth in the region
- LIA (NSW) hosts dinner at Museum of Printing in Penrith
- Planet Ark founder named keynote speaker at FESPA conference
- Mutoh launches hazard-free, quick-dry sign & display ink
- Final 2022 dates for Roland DG Academy Online training
- Epson launches two new SureColor dye sub printers
- Mimaki Global Innovation Days back in October
- HP extends its PageWide range of packaging inkjet presses with new 1700mm model.
- IVE Group installs eight Ricoh digital production presses
- oOh!media signs multi-year deal with City of Adelaide
- Kyocera to pay $50m over class action lawsuit
