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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. 

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Sydney large format printer Cactus Imaging has won the Signage (Ridged & Flexible) category for works produced with HP digital printing technology at this year’s Dscoop Edge event in Orlando, Florida.

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David Ryan of LST Group had planned to be living on the waterfront, with a yacht and a sports car, enjoying the benefits of a successful signage business, when he sensed a calling that led to him setting up Heart For Kids, a not-for-profit group that has helped hundreds of orphans and children living in poverty across China, India and Indonesia.

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Gill Kennedy, owner of Minuteman Press in Caboolture, Queensland, emigrated to Australia from the UK four years ago with her husband and two children, intent on someday buying her own business.

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Avery Dennison is set to wow customers at this year’s FESPA 2019 with a range of their latest creations featuring the Avery Dennison and Mactac brands.

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European Sign Expo 2019, taking place alongside FESPA in Munich, will feature over 100 exhibitors specialising in illuminated displays, channel lettering, dimensional signage, engraving and etching, digital signage, display systems, out-of-home media, neon, LED and sign tools.

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“We cannot just go to a big company like Fuji Xerox and reconstruct their entire accounts and business for years on end; we really have to be focused on where we think that the misdoings or the misdeeds are occurring and work on that,” says Julie Read, chief executive and director of New Zealand’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO).