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Sign and print media supplier Spandex Asia Pacific says its rigid material pricing will be updated on 4 January due to ongoing ‘extreme challenges’ in global supply chains. Graphic Art Mart & Amari have announced an increase of 5-10% across its product range from Monday, 31 January 2022. Competitor Spicers this month increased its prices by 8% on all print & packaging products due to what it called “unprecedented” supply conditions.

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For almost forty years, industry specialised textiles supplier Ricky Richards, established in 1983, has remained family-owned and operated and is now one of Australia’s leading suppliers of specialised textiles. Apart from printable media, Ricky Richards supplies high-quality technical, industrial and agricultural textiles to sectors from Boating, to Camping & Outdoor, Healthcare and Mining. Always keen of holding good stocks, Ricky is promoting its Starlight Display recycled front-lit banner rolls in time for the festive season.

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PrintIQ - the Queensland headquartered management workflow cloud-software developer has successfully expanded globally, particularly in the UK market where it has joined the online expo, printing-expo.online with a virtual booth. Believing in person-to-person shows as well, PrintIQ will be exhibiting at the Sign&Digital show at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham next March.

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Despite the best efforts of Omicron covid variant, it looks like a dozen or so important industry trade fairs will go ahead in 2022. As someone who has attended most of them (or their variants), Andy McCourt surveys the global expo scene so you can pick and choose to suit your calendar and extra-curricular wishes.

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The world’s largest trade show organiser Messe Frankfurt, which last week had to cancel its printed textiles flagship event Heimtextil, says the physical trade fair business model is alive and well but the company’s recovery from Covid is set to take longer than originally thought.

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Outdoor advertiser oOh!media, owner of wide format printer Cactus Imaging, has sold its youth-orientated digital publishing business Junkee Media to focus on OOH advertising.

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Demand for printing ink products continues to surpass supply and global raw material and freight availability has been heavily impacted, according to the European Printing Ink Association (EuPIA). Shipping container costs in some routes have increased by 8-10 times the norm, it said.

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“The supply chain challenges and rising costs experienced by all suppliers to the printing industry are showing no signs of losing momentum,” says global printing ink manufacturer Flint Group, which announced a further increase in all sheetfed inks and coatings, press room chemistry and transfer media products from February 1, 2022.

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Epson has launched the SD-10 spectrophotometer - a highly accurate, compact and affordable colour measurement device. Battery-powered and equipped with a precision MEMS Fabry-Pérot tuneable filter, the SD-10 is small enough to fit in a hand or pocket and recently won a Good Design Best 100 award 2021.

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The Outdoor Media Association’s latest 'Best of Outdoor', a monthly selection of local and international Out of Home (OOH) advertising, includes RSL Remembrance Day ads and a UK campaign highlighting unsung climate heroes. Also: “Calm Your Inner Karen.” 

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Continuing the series of helpful 'how to' webinars based around its popular Flexi software, SAi Europe's Application Specialist Jasper Jauwens Will host a webinar on Thursday December 9th from 11:00am Central European Time.SAi also has a new feature in Flexi21, for making jigs to print multiple-up objects on flatbed printers.

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Only a week after assuring the show would go ahead, organiser Messe Frankfurt has cancelled the leading global trade fair for printed textiles due to new government restrictions aimed at the worsening pandemic situation in Germany.  A mandatory vaccination program for the country is now being prepared for February 2022.

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The global printable self-adhesive vinyl film market will expand at an annual rate of 4.6% from 2021 to reach $US4.42 billion ($A$6.31 billion) by 2028, according to researcher ReportLinker.

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General Formulations, a global manufacturer of pressure sensitive films headquartered in Michigan, announced a new partnership with PSP Limited as a distributor for the New Zealand market. 

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Croatia-based print technology manufacturer Azonprinter has expanded its portfolio with two new flatbed cutters, the Azon Presto and Azon Presto+, “focused on any DTF solution.”

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Designed to adhere to virtually any smooth flat or curved surface, Drytac’s new ViziPrint Deco + scratch resistant window film is suitable for retail storefronts, POP and backlit displays.

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NUtec has added to its growing range of inks designed for LED lamp curing with the Ruby R10-HYB for rigid and roll-to-roll applications - ‘ideal for indoor point of sale signage and durable outdoor advertising.’

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Capital expenditure is a much debated topic in our industry: what to by, when to buy, if to buy? There are signs that there's never been a better time to invest in production, automation and IT systems, and that 2022-23 will see a noticeable spike in business activity. Before inflation and raw material price rises grip you, along with inevitable interest rate hikes - will you be ready, asks Wideformat Online publisher Andy McCourt, identifying four key trends.

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Sydney-based DTG print technology developer/manufacturer PPS Innovations has partnered with Kodak on a new Direct-to-Film (DTF) Kit that allows DTG printers to decorate a greater range of natural and synthetic fabrics including sportswear, caps and bags.

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The global large format printer market - valued at US$9.15 billion in 2020 - is projected to register an annual growth rate of 4.2% to reach US$13.7 billion by 2030, according to new research. Inkjet printing now accounts for more than 50% of the large format market.

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Melbourne wide format business Billboard Media has installed two superwide EFI VUTEk Q5R roll-to-roll LED printers at its production facility in Oakleigh South.