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FESPA’s new Colour L*A*B* will showcase latest colour management solutions from exhibitors including Adobe, EFI, HP, Pantone, Techkon and X-Rite, ranging from calibrated monitors to colorimeters, spectrophotometers, viewing cabinets to software and colour systems for the wide format and graphic arts markets.

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With the tragic death of an 18-year old apprentice due to an avoidable scaffolding collapse last week in Sydney, the focus again is on workplace safety. Although this was a construction site, sign installers are regular users of scaffolding, scissor lifts, cherry-pickers, cranes and other forms of height access, so it’s timely to look again at safety.

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Brisbane-based GJI Group has continued its expansion strategy with the acquisition of leading Brisbane digital wide format and signage business Colorcorp.

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Signwriting student Tylah Field has won the Student of the Year award from more than 1,000 students from various trades at the 2019 Sydney region TAFE NSW Student Excellence Awards at Ryde Campus. Field also took home the Infrastructure, Energy & Construction (IEC) Student of the Year award.

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Flint Group warned of a global tightening of raw material supplies for UV and publication printing inks after last month’s massive explosion at a chemical plant in eastern China that left 78 people dead and hundreds injured. 

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A typo on “No smoking, eating or drinking” signs inside at least 100 Brisbane buses has turned heads after a picture of the spelling mistake was posted to Reddit on Tuesday.

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Clairvoyance and crystal balls aside, it’s typically difficult to see into the future. Industry exhibitions can, however, allow business owners and decision makers to gain the foresight – and insight – they need to plan for a successful future.

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Roland DG’s new TrueVIS VG2 Series wide format eco-solvent printer cutters have won the 2019 ISA Sign Expo Innovation Award in the Printer category.

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Epson this week debuts its new industrial UV digital label press the SurePress L-6534VW at Print China 2019 in Guangdong, from April 9-13. The UV inkjet technology will be also be featured at PrintEx 19 in Sydney, August 13-16.

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French large format printer Métropole used its Massivit 3D printer to produce life-size comic book characters at the International Cartoon Festival of Angoulême in south-western France.

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Avery Dennison Corporation has extended its liner recycling program to include polyethylene terephthalate (PET) label liners.  The adhesive materials manufacturer is collaborating with EcoBlue Limited, a Thai company that specializes in recycling PET label liner to create recycled PET (rPET) materials for use in other polyester applications.

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Digital textile printing manufacturer Kornit Digital has unveiled Kornit NeoPoly Technology - the industry’s first digital, industrial process for high-quality printing on polyester. NeoPoly uses an innovative ink set and a process developed for low temperature curing.

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At next month’s interzum 2019 show in Germany, Mimaki will showcase robotic technology that it says is “revolutionising the furniture production and interiors industries.”

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When James Ashby (Slippergate, Planegate, Assaultgate, Printgate, Nogate at all), Pauline Hanson’s Chief-of-Stuff for what Police described as One Nation Party, went to New York with his potty-mouthed mate Steve Dickson, few would have known that he is apparently owner of a multi-national sign and printing business with connections to Zanzibar, Bermuda and Queensland’s Sunshine Coast..

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With the announcement that franchise specialist Jim’s Group has entered the Sign and Print sector, and also Uniforms and Promotional items, the obvious question is ‘what impact will it have on the industry?’

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The Australian Sign & Graphics Association (ASGA) has called meetings of its members around the country over concerns about how new federal building code legislation relating to ACM cladding will impact the signage industry. 

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Texas-based sign shop franchise business Fastsigns – the parent company of Australian-based Signwave – has been sold to Los Angeles private equity firms LightBay Capital and Freeman Spogli & Co.

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With PrintEx 2019, Sydney, just four months away, the organiser Visual Connections has updated and made available the floorplan which can be accessed here.

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The new Heytex ecotex B1 material is a non-PVC matt white printable frontlit banner, recommended for UV and Latex print in up to 500 cm (197 inch) width. “It’s environmentally friendly, sustainable and health conscious."

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Cactus Imaging general manager and FESPA Hall of Famer Keith Ferrel will be a guest speaker at the FESPA Global Print Expo in Munich next month. The comprehensive Trend Theatre seminar programme comprises 38 individual sessions and will deliver insights on a host of topics including automation, sustainability, digital printing, signage and textile.

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Fujifilm Graphic Systems says its XMF Workflow portfolio has become fully integrated with Tharstern MIS (Management Information System) and EFI Pace MIS, offering print providers enhanced productivity and lower costs.