FESPA’s first ever Digital Textile Conference (31st March to 1st April 2008),  held in parallel with FESPA Digital Printing Europe 2008, attracted a variety of quality printers, recognised manufacturers, and entrepreneurs interested in entering the fast-growing textile sector.

Creasing and folding large wide format plans as they come off the printer has been a time-consuming chore for architects, engineers and builders for years.

Sean Carey, managing director of Ricci Signs Australia, is a young man brimming with enthusiasm. He’s enthusiastic about his employees’ ambitious creativity and about the future of his business, which has grown well over the last eight years with an expanding portfolio of print projects from large retail and construction corporations.

The winner of the HP Designjet 9000s large format printer competition is Snap Printing in Ultimo, NSW.

A larger-than-life James Courtney and Shane van Gisbergen set off in the early hours of Saturday morning on the 4,500km trip across the Nullabor for round four of the V8 Supercar Championship Series at Barbagallo in Perth, Western Australia.

We all know that EskoArtwork are big in cutting tables around the world, including Australia. It would seem logical that they should adapt their technology expertise to "Nesting".

With industry estimates that over 1 billion ink jet cartridges are used worldwide every year, and by 2009 that number will reach 2 billion, Roland DG is very proud to announce one more very important initiative with the introduction of Roland DG's Cartridge Recycle programme (CR), all of Roland DG’s cartridges can now be recycled, including ECO-SOL MAX, EcoXtreme and EcoXtreme LT cartridges.

Sawgrass Technologies has announced that it has released the ChromaBlast system for the Epson C120, an entry-level cotton-decorating system that makes starting a T-shirt or fabric decorating business affordable.

Celmac have revamped their showroom and warehouse for their Queensland branch.

Steve McCarthy, Chief Executive of Adshel, has been appointed as the next Chairman of the Outdoor Media Association (OMA) following the recent retirement of Chris Tyquin.

At Drupa, leading inkjet manufacturer Inca Digital and its key partners will promote its extremely popular range of innovative inkjet printers developed to deliver quality printing for high-volume wide format display and corrugated packaging applications.

The European Digital Press Association has announced their choice of "Best Product" in the Printing Engine category. The Best products are:

GBC Commercial Laminating Solutions Group will exhibit their latest and new thermal laminating solutions for commercial, on-demand and wide-format finishing at Drupa 08.

Epson has appointed Romano Bacci as Business Manager for its Large Format Printer business, to maximise opportunities within its existing businesses and to assist with the development of new market segments.

FESPA is pleased to announce the re-launch of its official website at www.fespa.com. The redesigned site incorporates a number of significant changes, increasing functionality and providing FESPA members and the wider screen and digital print community with a reliable and informative hub for industry news and developments.

JDA Print Recruitment, Australia's specialist print industry recruitment organisation has announced that they can now offer seamless print recruitment solutions in both Sydney AND Melbourne.

DPLenticular, European supplier of lenticular plastic sheets and rolls for the graphic arts industry, has announced it will show it's new 40 LPI lenticular sheet (also called VLF for Very Large Format).

A large number of Xaar printhead-enabled printers is due to be demonstrated at Drupa by key industry suppliers, including at least six new products making their worldwide debut.

EskoArtwork is presenting not only its well-known solutions for professional packaging pre-production, the company is also bringing new tools for designers and brand owners that increase production capacity.