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Despite a jump in net sales and profit, Spicers recorded a statutory loss of $6.7 million for the half-year ended 31 December 2018, after booking a $15 million loss on the sale of its Asian operations. The paper company and wide format supplier is preparing for its proposed sale later this year - pending shareholder approval - to Japan-based global paper giant Kokusai Pulp & Paper (KPP).
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Entries have opened for the state Printing Industry Creativity Awards (PICAs) which kick off in Adelaide in June, with all state winners eligible to compete in the 36thannual National Print Awards to be held during Printex19 in Sydney in August. A Large Format category is for work printed on any substrate using any printing method, and includes pull up banners, indoor visual, building banners, bus shelter signage, real estate signage.
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Online registration is now open for Printex19, the leading expo for the print, sign, display and engraving industries, which this year will be co-located with sign, display and wide format showcase Visual Impact and the Labels and Packaging Expo.
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Roland DG Australia is offering disaster pricing for replacement products and reduced service rates on moisture-affected Roland equipment to any customers affected by record flooding in Queensland, which has now inundated 1.3 million sq kilometres.
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Graphic Art Mart has announced a new nationwide series of Avery Dennison Vehicle Wrapping Workshops to be held across Australia from February-November 2019.
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Danish manufacturer Contex is hosting a free webinar to showcase two new additions to its range of large format scanners, the HD Ultra X scanner series.
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Spandex has created an innovative new app that gives customers easy access to digital colour swatches for thousands of colours from leading brands.
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“We don’t know if they can absolutely guarantee that none of the toxins such as mercury and dioxins can be prevented from going out the stack,” says Jill Redwood, coordinator of Environment East Gippsland (EEG), which has filed legal action against Australian Paper’s $600 million EfW project at its Maryvale mill in the Latrobe Valley, east of Melbourne.
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The project for Pukara Estate provided QLM Label Makers with its first market application of HP Mosaic software for self-adhesive labels. It's part of a number of ongoing QLM projects aimed at utilising personalisation and customisation to generate increased sales.
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The new Océ ColorWave 3500 and ColorWave 3700 are both packed with intuitive operational features and print on a wide range of media from thin uncoated stocks like 80gsm bond to vinyls.
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"Think of us as a Swiss Army Knife,” says Perry Brahan, director of UK-based Amersham Signs Design and a former special effects designer for the BBC. “We’re a relatively small company offering a wide variety of services usually found only in larger companies, many of them enabled by design, print and cut software from SAi.”
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“People have this idea around franchising that’s it’s this tightly controlled, cookie-cutter type of thing but all of our businesses are unique and a reflection of owners connecting to markets according to their individual interests,” says Linda Sultmann, director and GM, Signwave Australia.
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oOh!media has signed a new long-term contract with Brisbane Airport Corporation (BAC) which includes exclusive rights for internal and external advertising for both the domestic and international terminals.
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US printing giant Xerox has moved into metal 3D printing with the acquisition of New York-based start-up Vader Systems - creator of the first liquid metal 3-D printer for manufacturing. The process uses aluminium, which opens up potential signage applications.
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Well-known industry figure Luke Wooldridge has been named national sales manager at Fujifilm’s Graphic Systems (GS) Division.
- Océ Arizona 1300 headed to Australia ‘in coming months’
- PMP Group rebrands as Ovato
- ACCC investigates ‘discounts and rebates’ in outdoor advertising
- $5,000 Roland DG trade-in offer on TrueVIS VG
- Canon launches new Océ Arizona 1300 UV flatbed series
- Townsville signage firm hit by ‘unprecedented’ flooding
- Wide format printer Vivad adds second 5-metre Durst
- ATO agrees to adjournment in $1.3m Picton Press tax bill case
- APN Outdoor helps drive JCDecaux to record €3.6bn year
- Fujfilm launches Acuity LED 40 Series of Flatbed Printers
- Charti appoints Richard Townsend as new BDM Queensland
- Mimaki Open Day at Sign Essentials in Brisbane
- Epson named one of Top 100 Global Innovators
- Brett Burns new national sales manager at Ricky Richards
- GOA expands Iconic series with first wall mounted digital billboard
