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Adelaide-based Vailo, a manufacturer of advanced LED lighting solutions, will relocate its production and R&D team next year to a new facility with five times the manufacturing floorspace to incorporate more automation and robotics. Vailo is currently engaged with Australian and international stadium and sports field lighting projects and is rapidly expanding into the US market.

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Sydney sign company All Stuck Up Design + Print specialises in vehicle wraps, event signage and shop signage, with the help of partners including Roland DG Australia, Graphic Art Mart and Arlon Graphics. All Stuck Up founder Adrian Marcelino talks about his South Hurstville business in a new GAM video.

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Corporate watchdog the ACCC has published a new draft guidance to improve the integrity of environmental and sustainability claims made by businesses and protect consumers from ‘greenwashing’. A recent ACCC survey found 57% of businesses were making potentially misleading environmental claims.

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Direct-to-film technology is having a 'transformative impact' on apparel decoration In the printing industry, according to a new blog by Marc Verbeem, supervisor product management at Mimaki Europe.

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TrafficJet Xpert is built on the Mutoh XpertJet printer platform and optimized for traffic signage, work zone applications, and custom graphics. True Traffic Color spot inks and included software automates reflectivesign making, simplifying the printing of specification- compliant traffic control, wayfinding, and custom signage. (with video)

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Troy Cavanagh of Melbourne wide format business ImageBox represented the inaugural FESPA Future Leaders Program and FESPA Australia at the FESPA Global Print Expo in Munich, Germany and says it was "a fantastic experience." Applications for the Future Leaders Program 2023 are due to open in mid-July.

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Canon this week is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the company’s operations in Australia. Canon Oceania Group now employs 2,400 people across 22 locations.

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Digital outdoor media company QMS has installed more than 500 new digital panels across the 33 suburbs of the City of Sydney, including six high-traffic precincts that now feature three or more bus shelters in a row.

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The Monna Lisa, an industrial inkjet digital textile printer jointly developed by Epson and Italian textile manufacturing equipment manufacturer Robustelli, celebrates its 20th anniversary this year.

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Antalis has expanded its popular Coala brand of large-format digital media with a new addition to its wallcovering range that's suitable for Latex Inkjet, UV Curable Inkjet, and Xeikon printers.

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The First joint show between PrintNZ and the NZSDA closed on Saturday 8th July at the Due Drop Event Centre, Auckland. Here is a gallery of photos from LinkedIn posters who were at the event.

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UK printhead maker Xaar and Germany-HQ'd Quantica have signed an exclusive commercial partnership to manufacture Quantica’s NovoJet printheads, enabling ultra high viscosity printing for 2D and 3D printing applications. This powerful partnership combines Xaar's expertise in inkjet printhead manufacturing with Quantica's ultra high viscosity printhead technology.

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HEXIS has unveiled details of a new solution for recovering its self-adhesive film and liners, which it calls “a new step towards a more sustainable industry.”

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The new Onyx 22.5 wide-format Rip and print workflow software - previewed at Fespa Global in May - is now commercially available worldwide.  

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Figures from the Outdoor Media Association (OMA), show that the Australian Out of Home (OOH) industry reported an 11.9% increase in net media revenue to $283.2 million for Q2 2023 - up from $253.1 million for the same quarter in 2022.

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More than 1,400 exhibitors from 24 countries and regions have registered for Asia’s leading exhibition for textile machinery, ITMA ASIA + CITME, which was rescheduled last year due to the pandemic situation and will now take place from Nov. 19-23, 2023 in Shanghai.

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Opal Australian Paper owner Nippon Paper Industries says the decision to close its white paper manufacturing operations at Maryvale Mill in Victoria will cost the company a total of 6.1 billion yen ($A63.9 million).

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Canon has announced that 3M has recognised its Colorado M-series printer and approved its UVgel 460 white ink as part of the 3M MCS Warranty program. This approval provides assurance that applications printed on the Colorado M-series in combination with UVgel 460 ink and 3M’s approved media, will achieve the highest quality standards.

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The sign welcoming Nullarbor-plain crossers to WA or SA in the other direction at Eucla, is corroding and the WA part has fallen off. The ABC reports that no one claims ownership for the estimated $150,000 repair job to be performed. Main roads is considering an electronic sign of some sort. Meanwhile, the Border Roadhouse is still doing a roaring trade, now all 'hard borders' are open following covid.

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 According to Smithers' data from 'The future of signage in a digital world,' print output for wide-format and other signage applications are recovering from a downturn at the beginning of the decade. The outlook is still challenging however, as new priorities are established in printed advertising, point-of-sale (PoS) signage, posters, decals, and vehicle graphics.

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For more than a decade, ASGA has hosted an industry golf event in Brisbane and it is up and running again on 22 August 2023, providing the perfect opportunity to catch up with industry colleagues and friends. Sponsors include HEXIS, Amari Visual Solutions, Graphic Art Mart, and ORAFOL.