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The winners of the 16th Epson International Pano Awards have been announced with ultra-wide panoramas clearly the flavour of the 2025 competition. Alessandro Cantarelli from Italy took top honours as the 2025 Open Photographer of the Year (also winning the Nature/Landscape category).

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The Ghent Workgroup, established in 2002 to work with the industry to develop best practices for print & publishing workflows, has welcome Adobe back into its fold.

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Scodix, widely recognised for its production of some of the world's most advanced digital embellishment solutions for the printing industry, has opened a new ‘Experience Centre’ in Düsseldorf, Germany. 

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Mimaki has launched its new UJF-7151plus II e next-generation flatbed UV printer at PRINTING United Expo in Florida, claiming the printer ‘sets a new benchmark for direct-to-object and industrial printing’.

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Konica Minolta Australia has announced it has reached the second tier in its Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) journey, having officially achieved its Innovate RAP: Implementing change with Reconciliation Australia and acquiring the right to reproduce an artwork by Aboriginal artist Jasmine Coe, titled ‘Ripples’.

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Now in its fourth year, there was a bright spotlight on the FESPA Leaders program in and around this year’s FESPA Australian Conference. First, a cocktail party the night before the conference, to celebrate both this year’s crop of 14 participants and those that have gone before them. Then, at the conference itself, an opportunity for a couple of the 2025 leaders to share their story.

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Following quickly in the wake of Koenig & Bauer’s 'protected at print' initiative launch, Bosch has set up a new product authentication business and has teamed up with Koenig & Bauer to bring the product to the printing industry.

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Plockmatic Group has launched two new products at this week’s PRINTING United Expo in Florida: the SC7800 Pro XL Finisher (a compact, high-capacity booklet maker featuring patented sheet-cutting technology) and  the DigiCoater Pro 400 LED-UV (a standout digital finishing solution designed to apply high-quality protective coatings).

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A high-quality speaker line-up coupled with an innate ability to address meaningful and relevant industry topics ensured this year’s FESPA Australia Annual Conference (Shangri-La Hotel Sydney Friday 17^th October) hit the mark and lived up to the organisation’s brand promise to Connect. Inspire. Support.

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Take one enormous roller door, wrap it in a beautifully under-stated, original and authentic Aboriginal design, then drop a removable easy-dot print wrap over the top, to convince the other Block contestants that an arrogant self-portrait design is the finished product. What you are left with is TV gold, dreamed up by renowned design and printing company Grafico, in collaboration with The Block 2025 contestants Britt and Taz and local roller door company 4D Doors.

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HP has unveiled a new 3.2m-wide Latex FS70 W printer, the Latex Productivity Kit, and an enhanced PrintOS Production Hub.

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The biennial LIA National Graduate of the Year winners were announced last week, with Jackson Young from Harden Packaging in Victoria taking out the $10,000 LIA Visual Connections Scholarship Prize, and Kathy Doan from Corrective Services Industries in NSW winning the LIA Future Leader Award.

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In the wake of the Federal Government’s Strategic Review of the Australian Apprenticeship Priority List, the Visual Media Association (VMA) has made a formal submission on behalf of our industry, ‘for urgent recognition of the print, signage, and packaging sectors as critical sovereign manufacturing industries requiring skills and training support’.

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Ball & Doggett has launched a new Print & Packaging Consumables Catalogue, providing printers, packagers, and converters across Australia with an expanded range of pressroom, finishing, and sustainable consumable products – all in one comprehensive resource.

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For the month of October – Breast Cancer Awareness Month - Pozitive Sign & Graphic Supplies is donating $5 from every shipped order directly to Hawkesbury-based charity Pink Finss.

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Wide Format Impressions magazine, a PRINTING United Alliance media brand, has published a punchy highlight reel of wide format printers launched in the last two years, that will be on display at the PRINTING United Expo later this month.

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Epson has again puts its corporate weight behind a cause that helps to provide school meals to children in Africa and Asia – the Onigiri Action initiative, organised by global food insecurity non-profit, TABLE FOR TWO International (TFT).

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The Industrial Print Integration (IPI) Conference 2025 has announced its keynote programme, with speakers lined up to talk about the impact of AI-powered robotics, the role of inkjet in Human Machine Interfaces and the future of Industrial Printing.

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CPH Group, a leading supplier of products to the signage and wide format digital print industries, has expanded its national footprint by opening a new Sydney office in Pagewood.

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A new S3200-S1 printhead addition to Epson’s PrecisionCore printhead series is expected to drive the adoption of inkjet technology in advanced fields such as perovskite solar cell fabrication.

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Color-Logic, renowned globally for its metallic colour and special effect design technology, has announced its certification of the Mimaki JV330 and CJV330 series large-format eco-solvent printers using Onyx RIP software.