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Following a successful inaugural year of operations, Visual Connections announces a changeover of President from Mitchell Mulligan, CEO Bottcher Australia (former GAMAA President) to John Wall, President and Director Roland DG Australia (former Visual Industries Vice-President) as agreed in the Constitution of the not-for-profit company created in 2015.

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Advances in production digital printing toners and inks are creating new opportunities to capture high value pages that require more than traditional CMYK-based colours.

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There are only a few days left to snap up a great prize as part of the HVG Graphics Media and 3M “Everyone’s a Winner” promotion.

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Of interest to those that print on glass. Sun Chemical will be using glasstec 2016 (20-23rd September in Dusseldorf, Germany) to present the companies latest offerings from its SunVetro range of glass decoration solutions including organic inks, spray coatings, glass preparation products and cold end coating solutions.

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Ricoh released its new wide format production CW2201SP for CAD/GIS and graphic applications.  

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Drytac has announced the immediate availability of its enhanced Emerytex laminating film which, they say,  offers superior anti-slip qualities, scuff resistance, and protection from UV degradation for both indoor and outdoor graphics applications.

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By Jurgen Verhulst, Technical Marketing Manager EMEA, SAi

If you are reading this as a large format print provider or signmaking business, then the constant need to keep production costs low and increase turnaround times without compromising on quality, will be all too familiar challenges.

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In the second major billboard takeover news this month it has been announced that APN Outdoor have acquired two independent billboard operators, Metrospace and IOM, based in Brisbane and Melbourne respectively.

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Roland DG Australia has announced the launch of its new Roland Profile Centre, a free, one-stop site that makes it easier than ever for end users to obtain media profiles for Roland printers.

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The Vatican Apostolic Library, Digita Vaticana, NTT DATA Corporation and Canon Inc. have announced their agreement to present special faithful reproductions of a rare 1,600-year-old manuscript to the first 200 people/organisations who donate 500 euros or more to support an ongoing project that is using NTT DATA technology to digitally archive thousands of manuscripts at the Vatican Library.

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Whilst the report concentrates on the US industry, our own region is also looking good and probably a little less volatile than the US.

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HP has announced that the HP PageWide XL Printer series and the HP DesignJet T830 have been honoured with prestigious 2016 Red Dot Awards.  

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Xaar has announced the acquisition of Engineered Printing Solutions ("EPS"), a leading provider of product printing equipment in North America. The acquisition, which completed on the 1st July 2016, is Xaar's first as part of the Company's strategic vision to achieve £220m of annual sales by 2020.

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Keeping the importance of speed in mind, Onyx Graphics and HP Inc. have joined forces to collaborate with four-time Indianapolis 500 champion Andretti Autosport.

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Roland DG wish to advise the industry that the response has been really positive for the new VersaWorks 2016 training course this year.

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As the first manufacturer of reflective materials, Orafol recently obtained approval to ECE 104 Class F (thereby fulfilling also the reflective requirements in ECE 70 Class 5) for the Oralite 5921M Prismatic Fleet Marking Grade.

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The Jetmaster range includes flatbed machines that can print up to 1.8m wide in a single pass and at speeds up 6000 per hour. The range also includes a roll to roll printer.

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Aslan UltraTack is now available in a matt version. The polymeric selfadhesive film UltraTack matt Aslan DFP 08 with an outdoor durability of seven years is equipped with a very strong adhesive.

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Sun Chemical Performance Pigments has expanded its portfolio of high chroma dispersions for energy curable inkjet inks to now include particle sizes that are smaller than 150nm (micron).

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The webinars are in series so it is important that those participating start with the first and carry on through until the fourth one.