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Sign industry identities gathered in Adelaide last week for a successful Australian Sign & Graphics Association (ASGA) Social Bowls Night, one of a suite of networking events the Association has been holding around the country.
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In yet another shift to inkjet printing for publications, Queensland based CPX Printing and Logistics has installed a Canon varioPrint iX3200 inkjet cut-sheet printer. The company says it is impressed by the uptime and productivity and that it will help to extend its services to the Australian publishing industry.
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Currie Group has confirmed it will take up the Diamond Sponsorship for the 2024 National Sign & Graphics Awards, which gives the company naming rights for the much-anticipated event, to be held in Sydney. The 2022 Melbourne event was a roaring success in front of a packed audience.
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Fespa Global Print Expo has officially opened registrations for its 2024 exhibition, which takes place 19th–22th March 2024 at the RAI in Amsterdam
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Peak industry suppliers' association, Visual Connections held its AGM and end-of-year member gathering last week, at a trendy Sydney winery. It's been a full year of post-pandemic recovery for the industry and will be a vibrant 2024 with events, sponsorships and training initiatives.
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"Amendments to the 'Closing Loopholes' Bill that the Government has reportedly agreed upon with the Greens would deliver even more unfairness to employers negotiating enterprise agreements," says Innes Willox, Chief Executive of the national employer association, Ai Group.
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The UK's top competition watchdog, the Competition and Markets Authority, says that Adobe’s proposed USD$20 billion acquisition of Figma Inc. could harm the nation's digital design sector, findings that could mean a major setback for the merger first announced a year ago.
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Recently spun-out of EFI, Fiery, LLC is the print industry's largest independent provider of digital front ends (DFEs) and workflow software. The company is now transforming the automotive wrap market with its vehicle wrap template service and quote application.
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ISPO - the world's largest expo for the Sports Industry opens today in Munich, Germany. Sports apparel is of course a major feature and DTG & Industrial sewing giant Brother industries is and exhibitor.
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Vastex’s new PTF-100 DTF Powder-To-Film system uniformly coats DTF films with adhesive powder, improving DTF printing performance and operator safety by reducing inhaled powder.
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The term 'Spaghetti Junction' was originally applied to the Gravelly Hill interchange near Birmingham UK , which opened in 1972. British comedian Ken Dodd called it 'the eighth wonder of the world' - because once you were on it, you wondered how you could get off! The term has now been applied to the new WestConnex Rozelle interchange in Sydney, which opened this week amid chaos - including near-misses as cars slowed and even reversed to avoid going the wrong way. Poor signage has been blamed.
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It is with great regret and sadness that we report on the appointment of a liquidator to Peter Wagener's group of companies. We have been aware of the voluntary administration since September - and the herculean effort by Wagener and his team to restructure and exit VA. However, the cancellation of a commercial lease has been a burden too far and the Wagener group of companies is in liquidation.
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The ASGA Sign & Graphics Awards are back for 2024, with the Association reminding sign, display, wide-format and graphics businesses to start gathering their best work ready to enter the industry's premier Awards competition.
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The Minutes of the November Board Meeting of the Reserve Bank released this week and comments by RBA Governor Michelle Bullock are stark reminders of the risks to the inflation outlook. Comments are by Australian Industry Group's Innes Willox.
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The FESPA Global Print Expo returns to Amsterdam, the Netherlands 19th - 22nd March 2024 and registrations are open now. The association's local Australian Geneal Manager Nigel Davies has announced a special Australia & New Zealand Day on 20th March.
- Brisbane Women In Print meets tonight! It's FREE and last chance to book
- New Easy Cut Studio now includes nesting
- Orafol improves farm safety in move into Agritech
- Currie Group’s Sydney showroom opens with sparkle
- Tiger Corp, Melbourne installs first Mutoh 1462UF in the Southern Hemisphere
- Drupa survey reveals wide format is top investment plan for commercial printers
- Cyber security now major risk for SMEs - AiG report
- Signarama Tuggerah, NSW Central Coast finds 25% growth with HP Latex 800W
- Frame Today chooses multiple Epson SureColor P5070 photo printers
- Artificial Intelligence: a Human perspective walking through the uncanny valley of data
- ORAFOL announces dates & states for 2024 wrap courses - book ahead!
- Are you in Nowra/Shoalhaven region of NSW? Ball & Doggett roadshow in on next week!
- New DTF system from Xante ready for 2024 release.
- Kodak installs world's fastest inkjet press - Prosper 7000 Turbo
- Packaging print to grow at 3.9% annually to 2028 - Smithers report