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Sun llc, the Russian company leading the race to install UV LED curing as the de facto standard curing technology in the global sign industry reported a great Drupa 08 with many orders and huge interest from across the globe.

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For the first time since the acquisition of the Colorspan range HP is showcasing its new UV curable flat bed and roll to roll printers to the New Zealand market.

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Adobe has announced the immediate availability of Adobe Acrobat 9 software, a significant upgrade that transforms the process of creating and sharing electronic documents. Acrobat 9 delivers major innovations that can enable organizations and individuals to communicate in an engaging, professional manner. Now included are native support for Adobe Flash technology, the ability to unify a wide range of content in rich PDF Portfolios, and access to real-time capabilities for co-navigating a PDF document with colleagues.

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The past couple of months have seen no less than nine new appointments at wide-format and signage supplier Starleaton Digital Solutions (SDS). “We’re on the growth trail again,” says managing director Peter Eaton, “last year it was warehouse space and offices, this year it’s people!”

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Mimaki has announce its new white solvent ink to be used in the JV33 series of wide format solvent inkjet printers.

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Océ  has announced that its wide format hardware solutions have received four BERTL's Best Awards, the most given to any wide format vendor in 2008.

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Océ say the wide-format graphic arts market is set to grow at an annual rate of 6% per year and the acquisition of Intersoft is part of it's overall wide format strategy.

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Bordeaux has announced new inks in its Prime and Plasma lines.

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Alucobond Architectural has added eight new colours to the Dibond range, the new colours being: Light Blue; Chocolate Brown; Yellow Green; Traffic Orange; Light Beige; Light Bronze Metallic; Sand Gloss Metallic and Graphite Gloss Metallic to its colour palette, in addition to the standard colours of Platinum White, Metallic Aluminium, Traffic Red, Jet Black, Ultramarine Blue, Traffic Yellow, Mayan Gold Metallic, British Green, and Light Ivory.

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Adkote are pleased to announce at Drupa 2008 they have been appointed exclusive distributors for the Jeti range of Grand Format printing systems manufactured by Gandi Innovations.

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Its being reported in the USA that Hewlett-Packard Co. is restructuring it's printer division by cutting five business groups down to three in a cost saving exercise. No official release has been issued to this affect as yet.

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Dean Kearney started his printing company, Typeface Design and Print, around 18 years ago, and in that time he has steered its growth to become one of the major printing businesses in Hobart, Tasmania.

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In spite of having a much smaller sign and specialty graphics service provider base than the eastern seaboard capitals, well known industry figures Ken Pobjoy and Stan Kilpin said that Image Expo Adelaide was a pleasing result for exhibitors and visitors alike.

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The outdoor media industry has recorded strong first quarter growth for 2008, with net media revenue increasing by 13% on the same period last year – up from $95.2 million to $108 million.

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Australia’s largest Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) supplier – Alucobond Architectural – has relocated from its Peakhurst warehouse to Turrella, joining its parent company Halifax Vogel Group (HVG).

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Agfa Graphics exceeds 100 million Euro order intake for its prepress solutions and industrial inkjet technology.

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EskoArtwork are claiming Drupa 08 a huge success. Their relatively recent partnerships with Artwork Systems, Enfocus and Gradual and a further two partnerships announced at the opening of the show: With Presstek, they will offer EskoArtwork’s Odystar workflow solution under its own Latitude brand; and then the SmartColour group at Sun Chemical will cooperate with EskoArtwork to bring innovative solutions for brand colour management to the entire packaging supply chain.

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EFI calim that their updated modular, PDF-based production workflow solution, Fiery Central, helps medium to high-volume print-on-demand environments increase their job volume, decrease turnaround times and maximise their equipment investment.

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Since the launch of their new Sun LCC range of UV LED printers including the Allegro and Evolution UV printers, Advanced Sign Supplies have quickly outgrown their Brisbane Head Office and so have decided to move to a larger facility in Brendale, just north of Brisbane.

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The MACtac Worldwide Awards were created to reward excellence in the field of visual communication, help the industry grow and offer new ideas to end-users. The world is divided into 3 areas – Europe, America and International.

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On April 5th, following the successful FESPA Digital expo in Geneva, J-Teck3 has officially inaugurated its new head quarters in Albese con Cassano (Como Lake Area) with a ceremony which included the J-Teck3 team and 72 partners from Italy and abroad.