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Samba backlit fabric from Berger in Germany is “one of the best in the business for backlit,” according to local supplier Ricky Richards. A 25% discount on be.tex Samba FR is available now by visiting the Ricky stand at the inaugural Print, Sign, Display & Graphics Virtual Trade Show.

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Prytec Solutions has unveiled its stand at the Print, Sign, Display and Graphics Virtual Trade Show - with its centrepiece PLS-51515 1kW Advanced Fibre Laser System - bringing the total number of exhibitors at the inaugural Visual Connections Virtual show to 24. More than 6,000 people have so far visited the show website.

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Roland DG Corporation has introduced its newly developed Green TR2 ink for its TrueVIS VG2 Series 64” and 54” wide format inkjet printer cutters. The new TR2 ink in Green is also available with the recently-released TrueVIS VF2-640 Printer.

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Canon Australia is keen to help encourage safe habits and policies to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Accordingly, it has made available a selection of poster templates, clipart, and word art of helpful phrases. The content can be printed via Canon’s free PosterArtist Lite and higher-level paid PosterArtist PC software that enables easy printing of high-quality posters.

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UK-based, Japanese-owned inkjet encoding, marking and label press developer Domino Printing Sciences has announced a new direction, addressing the global USD$223 billion corrugated box market with its new X630i, aqueous inkjet flatbed printer, with which it aims to change plain 'brown boxes' to bright colour printed  showpieces.

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ASGA and FESPA Australia have announced the 2020 HP Awards for Excellence Gala Dinner Presentation, which was to have been held during the Visual Impact Trade Show, will now be held on Friday 12 February 2021 at a Sydney CBD venue.

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The industry’s first virtual expo, the Print, Sign, Display & Graphics Virtual Trade Show, has smashed expectations with more than 5,000 visits clocked since its launch just two weeks ago.

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Printed paper waste has been excluded from the COAG Waste Export Ban until 2024 after a campaign led by printing industry group The Real Media Collective (TRMC). “Our lobbying was a success,” said TRMC CEO Kellie Northwood. Without the change, printers could have been forced to pay for printed waste to be sent to landfill rather than selling it off-shore.

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In addition to cashback offers on its benchtop UV devices, Mutoh Australia has introduced three-month holidays on repayments on all printers, as a support initiative to get sign printers up and running again after Covid-19. 

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The Print & Visual Communications Association (PVCA) has urged its members to immediately review and update their cyber security after an unnamed printing industry business lost over $100,000 in a so-called CEO email scam. This publication has also been the target of two attempted scams recently. 

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HP Indigo’s long-serving general manager Alon Bar-Shany, who suddenly announced this week he’d be leaving the company after 25 years, had been opposed to a plan by HP management to fire hundreds of Israeli workers, according to an report by Israeli tech news site CTech.

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Epson is the latest exhibitor at the Print, Sign, Display & Graphics Virtual Trade Show to add more content and special offers, including up to $3000 in savings as part of a SureColor Ink promotion.

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Electronics For Imaging is hosting its second EFI Ignite Virtual Experience event this week (June 17-18), offering two days of sessions (late night sessions for those in Aust/NZ time zones) with experts on a range of topics such as market opportunities in display graphics including five-meter applications, Divisional Graphics, packaging, custom furniture and interior décor. 

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The new Roland DG 64" wide format inkjet printer VF2-640 features a new TR2 green ink, that when combined with vibrant orange ink as process colours enables “unprecedented gamut expansion.”

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Keith Ferrel of Sydney wide format business Cactus Imaging told FESPA TV that automation is essential in ensuring that print service providers can keep up with the competition.

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HP Australia’s latest Large Format Academy webinar, titled Make Colour Management easier with HP large format printers, will be held on Thursday 18 June 11am AEST/ 1pm NZST, hosted by specialist Jeremy Brew.

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ASGA and FESPA Australia have released hundreds of photos of the entries in the sign industry’s major awards event - which was to have been held last month during the since-postponed Visual Impact Gold Coast trade show. An announcement on a new date for the awards dinner is expected soon. 

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Screen's announcement that it will use its close relationship with Inca Digital to develop a flatbed folding carton/corrugated digital press was swiftly followed by an announcement by Xeikon (albeit lacking detail) that it too would release one. Both will use aqueous inks. However, there is already a surprising solution available from a source that is represented here in Australia by Kissel + Wolf. Andy McCourt investigates.

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Large format WANTED posters with an image of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg have been plastered around Canada as part of an outdoor advertising campaign by watchdog group Friends of Canadian Broadcasting. The group has praised Australia’s recent decision to require that Facebook pay news organizations for content. 

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Wrapping applications, whether on a vehicle, storefront window or interior wall, continue to be some of the fastest growing areas of opportunity in the sign, graphics and visual communication industry, according to a new white paper from the US-based International Sign Association (ISA) and researcher KeyPoint Intelligence. Free downloads are available.

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Organisers have decided against rescheduling New Zealand’s premier printing industry awards event and will instead announce the winners in an online event on Thursday 25th June. The awards gala dinner that was due to take place in Auckland on May 8th – with 500 industry delegates expected - was postponed in March because of the COVID-19 restrictions.