Sawgrass Technologies has announced the release of the ChromaBlast system for the Epson 4880 enabling printing for cotton decoration in a production environment.

The results of FESPA’s Wide Survey, the proprietary pan-European research into the digital wide-format printing marketplace, conducted in association with InfoTrends, have now been published in full and are commercially available now. 

HP Asia Pacific executives Steve Wong, Business Manager - Director, Large Format Printing Industrial Solutions and Harry Hariharan, Vice President, Graphic Arts Business Imaging & printing Group, Asia Pacific confirmed today that as of March 1st this year NUR distribution in Australia and New Zealand will join with the established HP Scitex marketing team.

In an interview today with top HP execs at their Pre Drupa event in Tel Aviv, HP have confirmed that the new HP Scitex machines will maintain the Scitex branding, but the Colorspan and NUR machines will lose all sign of their former identity.

Sawgrass Technologies, a world leader in the development of on-demand digital imaging technologies, announced today that it has released a SubliJet system for the Epson 4880 for sublimation printing that is engineered for high-volume, production environments. 

In a major announcement made today, along with many other major announcements at their pre-Drupa event held in Tel Aviv, Israel, HP unveiled their new Latex Ink Technology which will be demonstrated at Drupa 08 and should be commercially available at the end of the year on new Thermal Inkjet Printers which will also be announced at Drupa in May.

Following its acquisition of Alucobond Architectural and Octanorm in 2007, Halifax Vogel Group (HVG) is opening brand new premises for its Queensland operations, located in Brisbane’s burgeoning Logan Valley area. 

Gerber Scientific was recently reported in many trade publications as having problems with the production of their new Solara ion inkjet printer. Not so, said the company.

Xanita have announced they are supplying their Mondi XtremeR board to two more major advertisers, CBS Outdoor UK and Clear Channel Europe, as a new sustainable print substrate used in framed advertising signage on bus and tram fleets.

Océ's USA Wide Format Printing Systems division has announced a new competiton to find the "Greenest Reprographer of the Year" in the USA.

With FESPA Digital Printing Europe 2008 fast approaching, FESPA has introduced a new initiative that will help visitors to identify innovative and environmentally friendly exhibitors, thus optimising visitors’ available time at the show.

Halifax Vogel Group have announced that they are now distributing these three popular media through their outlets.

Members of the Printing Industries supa drupa tour will receive all kinds of advice and support for their trip to drupa 2008 - but none more important than a lesson in ordering German beer.

Defying other very positive stats relating to the wide format sector of the printing industry, the commercial (offset) printing industry continues to be in recession according to the December 2007 quarter national accounts figures released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).

Higher state taxes and workers compensation charges are reducing the competitiveness of the South Australian printing industry.