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Highcon has announced a new portfolio line-up ahead of drupa 2024, addressing the fastest-growing segments of paperboard packaging. Responding to a global market with continuously growing demand for smaller production batch sizes, faster delivery, increased sustainability and enhanced customer experience, the company’s new portfolio accelerates Highcon’s strategy of mainstreaming digital die cutting by focusing on productivity, efficiency and quality.

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At its Dscoop Edge gathering, HP has previewed its huge drupa showing - it has the entirety of Hall 17 - by announcing the new HP Indigo 120K Digital Press, the B2 18K Digital Press, a new approach to security printing with the new HP Indigo 7K Secure Digital Press, standards for end-to-end automation using artificial intelligence and robotics and improvements to its PageWide portfolio to solve production challenges and unlock growth opportunities for the printing industry.

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Ahead of drupa, the Printing and Paper Technology division of Germany's VDMA (Mechanical Engineering Industry Association), forecasts positive future prospects for the industry. Thomas Schiemann, Managing Director of the division says packaging and sustainability are the main drivers of the sector.

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Visitors to drupa 2024 will be the first to see the combined expertise and technology from Esko, X-Rite, Pantone, and Enfocus, all on one stand, with live demonstrations on booth #A12 in hall 8B, attendees will experience the full suite of the companies’ latest hardware and software innovations.

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Canon has announced the addition of FLXflow technology to its Arizona 2300 series, bringing new productivity features to the flatbed printer series. Previously known as FLOW technology, the new FLXflow offers the original ‘Hold’ functionality, which helps to hold media down on the flatbed table, and the new optional ‘Float’ and ‘Instant Switch’ functionalities to improve media handling.

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“Performance across the board” is Zünd's clever drupa theme. The company continues to expand its portfolio of cutting systems, software tools, and automation solutions. The goal is to offer productivity for all - for every customer, every requirement, and every budget.

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The postponed LIA tour of Cactus Imaging, Sydney, is now on April 11th and, best of all, it is FREE including refreshments!

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With FESPA out of the way, all eyes are now on the next global event, drupa from May 28th to June 7th in Dusseldorf, Germany. To add to the pre-publicity, drupa 'Poster Man' and 'Father of Digital Printing' - who also invented Indigo - Benny Landa and his company Landa Digital Printing have announced an all-new line up.

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Global printing industry supplier Inkcups has announced the worldwide launch of the MagiCoat Mini,  a scaled iteration of the highly regarded MagiCoat Pre-treatment System for glass and metal vessel printing.

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Women in Print Australia proudly announces the appointment of Wendy Coss as the Interim Chair of the newly empaneled Special Projects Committee. Wendy brings a wealth of experience and leadership to this role, leveraging her expertise as the General Manager of Commercial Digital Print at Southern Impact.

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The announcement of a hostile bid for Roland DG by Brother Industries, against the private-equity backed MBO, is deserving of close inspection. Using supplementary information from Brother, Andy McCourt looks at the offer and finds, in his opinion, that if successful, we could be looking at the creation of another HP, Epson or Fujifilm-sized supplier to our changing industry, and one that offers diversification opportunities into Industrial markets.

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Epson has facilitated colour management for professional printers with the launch of its new Auto Table for the SD-10 spectrophotometer. Chart reading  table-based spectrophotometers are considered the most accurate for ICC profiling.

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Mimaki used FESPA to announce the launch of the brand-new Kebab HS, debuting worldwide at the show. Serving as an optional system for Mimaki’s UJF series of flatbed UV printers, the Kebab HS enables seamless 360-degree printing on cylindrical objects, such as bottles and tumblers.

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Xaar’s Ultra High Viscosity Technology is enabling Koenig & Bauer Kammann (Kammann) to drive its latest innovations by enhancing quality, speed, and sustainability for customers using its K15 and K20 decorative print machine families.

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Electronics For Imaging, Inc. has introduced two new models at FESPA, the EFI VUTEk Q3h XP - a true high-speed hybrid flatbed/roll-fed LED printer, offering superior-quality imaging along with flexible and versatile production-level throughput – and also the next generation 3.2-metre EFI Pro 33r roll-to-roll LED printer. 

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Zünd Systemtechnik AG now has its own branch in Australia. Zünd Australia will be based in Melbourne serving existing and new customers from all areas of application in which Zünd is active. Former Starleaton and Canon executive Dale Hawkins is the Managing Director, having many years experience with Zünd technologies.

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Mimaki’s new textile pigment transfer printing system, named TRAPIS, being demonstrated at FESPA, makes significant savings on wastewater compared to conventional methods. Latest innovation also broadens application possibilities for print service providers, with the ability to print on a multitude of materials, including natural fibres.

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Following our report on the proposed privatisation of Roland DG, Brother Industries, who already OEM a Roland printer model, has launched a hostile take-over plan to prevent the Taiyo Pacific Partners private equity-backed proposal.

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The great Victorian town of Bendigo, nearby where the largest gold nugget* ever found - the 'Welcome Stranger' at 72Kg net - was discovered, is next to see the Ball & Doggett regional roadshow, on 26th and 27th March at the All Seasons Hotel.

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Our lives are changing and so are the prints we order and produce. Inkjet is unique not only in the breadth of print applications addressed, but also in the range of devices, from inexpensive entry-level solutions to high-end, lights-out production lines. Ralf Schlözer - Technology analyst for the printing industry writes on behalf of drupa 2024.

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Sources close to the Friday 15th March vote in a proposed Deed of Company Arrangement for Starleaton Holdings Pty Ltd and SDS Bidco Pty Ltd, indicate that the vote in support of the DOCA was decided by the casting vote of the Administrator, Cathro Partners, after a deadlocked for-and-against vote and many abstaining from voting. Under ASIC regulations, the Administrator has 15 days to implement the DOCA, which will return control of Starleaton to its original directors, with oversight by the Deed Administrator.