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The new Ricoh Pro TF6250 Large Format UV Flatbed Printer is a 2.5m x 1.3m system designed to help sign and display, graphic arts and industrial sectors with decoration, packaging, screen printing and personalisation.
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This publication is in receipt of a Media Release issued by the Association of Accredited Certifiers (AAC), reproduced in full below. It concerns the growing issue of the use of combustible, sign-grade ACP (Aluminium Composite Panels) as cladding on high-rise buildings.
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It’s not all doom and gloom in the printing industry as 2019 progresses. Steve Hall’s SunPrint, based just outside Noosa on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, has logged two stunning results for January and February.
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Gary Kelly was in his early twenties in 1968 when he set up a small shed in Corunna Bay at the foot of Napier Hill and drove around town in his Morris Minor armed with sign brushes offering ‘signs of quality’ to clients. More than 50 years later, Gary is still on the job but has handed over the heavy lifting at the family-owned business to his three sons.
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FESPA’s design exhibit Printeriors will this year highlight both interior and exterior decor applications at the FESPA Global Print Expo in Munich, Germany from 14 to 17 May.
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Printers could be coffin makers of the future - LifeArt, an Australian-founded global business that produces environmentally friendly, personalised cardboard coffins is looking to partner with UK wide format printing companies wanting an opportunity to diversify into “a huge new market.”
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Roland DG Corp launched its second generation TrueVIS VG2 Series 64" and 54" wide format eco-solvent inkjet printer cutters which expand the colour gamut with ‘mind resonating’ Orange ink.
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Austrian-based laser cutting specialist Trotec Laser has opened a new laser demonstration and training showroom in Brisbane and reported ‘unprecedented’ business growth across its Australian operation.
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MM Plastics Group has merged leading local distribution companies Australian Visual Solutions (AVS), Amari Plastics and Chief Media into a new entity called Amari Visual Solutions to offer an expanded product range and wider distribution network. “MM Plastics seems to be mopping up any viable distributor who will sell,” says an industry insider.
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The New Zealand Sign and Display Association (NZSDA) has opened a new entry website for its flagship Sign and Display awards event at the association’s annual conference to be held this year in June in the harbourside city of Tauranga in the Bay of Plenty.
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The paper company and wide format supplier has sold the 56-hectare site of its former Wesley Vale Paper Mill near Devonport as it prepares for a shareholder vote on the company’s proposed sale later this year to Japan-based global paper giant Kokusai Pulp & Paper (KPP). The sale “looks to have scuttled" the possibility of a new jail being built at the site.
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Roland DG’s VersaWorks: Beyond the Basics training courses will be held across the country again in 2019, aimed at improving users’ knowledge of VersaWorks software to increase efficiency and productivity.
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Orafol Australia has released ProSlide, a new adhesive technology which makes film repositioning easier for vehicle wrappers. “ProSlide is this year’s blockbuster,” says Orafol, one of the world's leading manufacturers of self-adhesive products and reflective materials.
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“Bringing everything in-house gave us the sort of control we need for the type of clients we work for - it’s tight deadlines, everything is custom made, nothing is off-the-shelf work,” says Dean Rowland, owner of Signwave Newtown in inner Sydney, where the machinery line-up includes HP Latex printers ranging from 1600mm to 2600mm in width and an HP FB500 Flatbed.
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Outdoor advertiser oOh!media posted double-digit revenue growth for 2018, after a strong fourth-quarter contribution from its Commute (formerly Adshel) business. Organic revenue increased by 10% to $416.8 million.
- FESPA 2019 to focus on printed fashion textiles
- Ovato revenue plunges $37m on contract losses; Moorebank plant to close
- US judge slams Xerox, rejects bid to dismiss $1bn Fujifilm lawsuit
- IVE Group books $20m profit on revenue of $375m
- Kodak chief Jeff Clarke exits by ‘mutual agreement’
- Inking outside the box with SAi
- Fundraiser for McDonald Signs after family tragedy
- ‘Rapid global expansion’ for out-of-home QMS on sports deals
- drupa 2020 exhibition space already 96% booked
- Epson SureColor wide format printers win iF Design Awards
- Signage industry ‘caught in the net’ of cladding code: ASGA
- Massive SAi stock library for sign industry
- First SGIA Colour Management Bootcamp in Australia
- Ricoh flatbed, large format, DTG and inkjet printheads at FESPA
- Neopost secures distribution deal with Arlon Graphics
