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Record-breaking ITMA 2019 forced to turn away 250 exhibitors

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The world’s largest textile and garment technology exhibition has gathered together a record 1,717 exhibitors from 45 countries to this year’s event in Barcelona. The full house meant another 250 companies had to be turned away.

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First global demo of Mimaki’s new hybrid textile printer at ITMA

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The new entry-level Mimaki TX300P-1800P hybrid enables direct-to-textile or direct-to-transfer printing. "Mimaki has provided an affordable solution that lowers the barriers to entry for smaller print providers."

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ASGA and Visual Connections team up for Brisbane Golf Day 

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Continuing a popular tradition in the Sunshine State, the Australian Sign and Graphics Association (ASGA), together with new co-host Visual Connections, will host the annual sign industry Golf Day event for Queenslanders on Friday 23 August at the North Lakes Resort Golf Club.

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Falcon Signs and The Signshop Nelson triple winners at NZSDA awards

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Auckland sign business Falcon Signs won three gold medals and two silvers, including the People’s Choice award, while The Signshop Nelson won three golds, two silvers and two bronze medals at the NZ Sign & Display Awards held during the NZSDA conference in Tauranga. Toby Marsh of Signbiz in Christchurch was named Apprentice of the Year 2019.

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Optimism high in UK Sign & Graphics industry

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New research commissioned by the UK sign and graphics industry’s leading trade association revealed that despite uncertain political times, optimism is high in the industry, with customers increasingly looking for creative design input from sign companies. 

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‘The fastest high quality flatbed’: Fujifilm and Inca Digital’s OnsetX HS

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New UV inkjet flatbed Onset X HS machines offer more than a 50 percent increase in speed, ‘single cycle’ print mode, full automation and robotic ’30 second’ job set up.

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SGIAA becomes FESPA Australia

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SGIAA members have voted at their AGM in Melbourne to change the name of the association to FESPA Australia. President Nigel Davies says the move will not affect the group’s close relationship with SGIA in the US.

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SAi opens Australian office

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SAi, a global leader in design and production software for signmaking, digital printing and CNC machining, has opened a new Australian division in Sydney.

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Class action lawsuits launched over flammable ACM panels - Andy McCourt

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Class actions against Alucobond supplier Halifax Vogel Group (HVG) and its manufacturer 3A Composites and also Fairview Architectural have been instigated by legal firm IMF Bentham and William Roberts Lawyers on behalf of apartment owners in Sydney buildings. Wide Format Online publisher Andy McCourt has this report.

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“Historic first”: Screen's 520HD press as good as offset in US lab testing

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Independent industry researcher Image Test Labs (ITL) says it has achieved “a historic first in the printing industry” by configuring Screen’s flagship inkjet press, the Truepress Jet520HD, to deliver the image reproduction quality of a commercial sheetfed offset press over a production run of three miles (4.8km) of paper.

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Epson requests exemptions in US/China trade tariff war

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Epson has joined hundreds of US, Chinese and Japanese companies in requesting product exemptions from President Donald Trump’s plan to increase tariffs on another $300 billion of products from China - including printers and copiers - in the escalating US/China trade war. Epson has several manufacturing sites in China and, in its submission to the USTR, infers that is reviewing its manufacturing bases but that, since it owns most of its sites, relocation is not always feasible in the near-term.

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Older printing equipment dismantled and recycled in Asia

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This year’s PrintEx19 will include a sustainability solution from ABC Copier Solutions to deal with the growing problem of older equipment that's no longer required by Australian printing businesses. The service has already been adopted by major franchise groups including Kwik Kopy, Snap, Minuteman Press and Worldwide.

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'Thousands off’ EOFY sales from Roland, Mimaki & Alfex Laser 

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It’s End of Financial Year sales time and companies including Roland DG, Mimaki and Alfex Laser are offering big discounts on purchases made before 30 June.

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SAi’s VirtualSign app for sign and display

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SAi’s VirtualSign is a new app which creates a virtual representation of how signs will look in the real world.

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“We want to inspire action”: SGIA on sustainability

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US industry group The Specialty Graphic Imaging Association (SGIA) – represented in Australia by the SGIAA – says sustainability will be a focus at this year’s new Printing United trade show - formerly known as the SGIA Expo - in Dallas, Texas (October 23 - 25). 

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  1. Hexis Battle Wrap at Printex offers a trip to Las Vegas
  2. Epson opens new textile printing centre in Japan
  3. EFI’s Cretaprint hybrid inkjet printer for ceramic tiles
  4. HP opens massive 3D printing and digital manufacturing centre in Spain
  5. Avery Dennison introduces MPI 3300 Easy ApplyTM Series
  6. Exotic Graphix wraps Australia's first electric police car
  7. Fuji Xerox NZ ‘For Sale’ before government contract reversal
  8. Visual Connections broadens training to address skills shortage – Andy McCourt
  9. Suppliers providing fire-test data on substrate products: ASGA
  10. Ricoh launches voice-activated controls by Amazon’s Alexa
  11. Summa to showcase L1810 laser cutter at ITMA 2019
  12. Latest inkjet innovations at The Inkjet Conference 2019
  13. drupa 2020 to feature 3D printing program
  14. 120,000 expected at textile printing show ITMA 2019
  15. Neschen releases new PVC- and solvent-free film for wall graphics

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Offcuts Article Count:  18

3D Printing News Article Count:  1

Forum Rules Article Count:  27

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