Hits: 2503

SA International (SAi) will unveil new product innovations that will “significantly benefit sign and display businesses seeking to boost creativity and increase throughput” at this year’s FESPA Global Print Expo 2019 (Munich 14-17 May 2019).

Hits: 2639

Expanding wide format supplier Charti has named Siwei Sun as its product manager to lead the company’s accelerating New Product Development programme.

Hits: 2457

Roland DG Australia says the increase in the Federal Government's small business Instant Asset Write-Off to $30,000 for new or used assets makes it the best time to purchase a new Roland machine.

Hits: 2755

All delegates at next month’s TheIJC in Chicago will receive a free day ticket to drupa 2020, the leading global exhibition for printing technologies. The Inkjet Conference covers all aspects of industrial inkjet engineering and chemistry, from printhead architecture and system integration, through to image quality software, ink formulation, waveform measurement and curing techniques.

Hits: 2641

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.

Hits: 3334

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.

Hits: 6201

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

Hits: 4265

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.

Hits: 2809

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. 

Hits: 3402

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.

Hits: 2392

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.

Hits: 2332

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.

Hits: 2940

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.

Hits: 2713

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.

Hits: 3280

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.

Hits: 2975

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.

Hits: 3305

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.”

Hits: 3066

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..

Hits: 4804

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?’

Hits: 3298

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. 

Hits: 2824

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.