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A natural evolution of Kodak's NexPress and NexFinity digital toner presses has been announced under the name 'Ascend.' The revered Kodachrome brand re-emerges as 'dry ink' and not the diapositive colour film lauded by Paul Simon in his 70s song 'Kodachrome.' Ascend is packed with embellishing features and, with a max. sheet length of 1.22 metres, will find applications in POP and Signage as well as cartons, says the company.

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Roland DG has introduced its new Texart XT-640S-F – a short-run textile and apparel printer that switches between direct-to-garment and direct-to-textile printing.

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After another delay, the remaining PICA presentations - Western Australia, New South Wales and Victoria – will be presented on the evening of Friday 5 November, immediately prior to the National Print Awards presentations in Brisbane, which will be live-streamed around the country.

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Bulk and commodity trade and vessel movements are “embroiled in further turmoil,” with day rates for vessel leases spiking so dramatically that a trader has told paper industry researcher IndustryEdge: “It’s stupid o’clock out there. You can get a vessel, but you’ll pay through the nose, and rates are increasing by the hour some days.”

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oOh!media has strengthened its partnership with WA property group Hawaiian, signing a new agreement to install Out of Home assets into its shopping centres and rolling out more digital panels across Hawaiian’s nationwide retail portfolio.

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oOh!media’s pro-vaccination campaign features in this month’s 'Best of Outdoor' collection of local and international Out of Home (OOH) campaigns selected by the Outdoor Media Association (OMA).

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Easy Signs co-founders Andy Fryer and Adam Parnell will feature in the first webinar session of HP’s new 6-week Large Format Inspire Series that begins on Wednesday 13th October.

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SAi - the leading software supplier to the Sign & Display industry with its ever-popular Flexi platform, has released the first part of a 3-part series of videos on 'How to get the best colour from your printer.' Here, we present a link to the first episode.

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swissQprint is launching a new series of wide format models this October and the core of the new flatbed printers is advanced print head technology and mechanical features that promise “a quantum leap for users,” the Swiss manufacturer said.

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Spicers will increase pricing on commercial print, digital, packaging, PSL (sheets & rolls), and narrow web products by 8% across the board from Wednesday, 1 December. “This increase is a necessity for our business and has been averaged out across our Print & Packaging product portfolio, including locally manufactured material,” the company said. This represents Spicers' fourth increase in 2021.

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The October 'Deal-A-Day' offers from Jetmark get better and better and todays (Thursday 7th Oct), is a stunning $23,000 off the price of a ColorJet Verve 2513 Flatbed LED-UV printer. That makes it just $69,990 + gst!

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Authorised workers in Victoria must have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine by next Friday October 15, and two doses by November 26, in order to continue working on site.  All manufacturing workers are considered authorised.

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Roland DG Australia, manufacturer of wide format inkjet printers and 3D devices, has relocated its warehouse to a self-managed site at Belrose in Sydney’s north.

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Mimaki Australia has issued a scam warning to customers after one of its dealers received a fake “Unpaid notice” email that claimed the company had changed its payment details.

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The Out of Home advertising industry recorded an 50.5% increase in revenue for the third quarter and is poised to “really take off with increased spend going into the summer period.”

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Global Inkjet Systems (GIS) has started shipping its high-performance drive electronics and software for the Epson Precision Core D3000-A1R industrial inkjet printhead.

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"This double-impact marketing can be achieved without affecting natural light that would otherwise be blocked when using other forms of large-format print such as posters or signage," writes Gareth Newman in a Drytac blog.

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Cactus Imaging won the Large Format Digital Print “A” & “B” categories at the ASGA awards in Brisbane on Friday night. Other winners included Danthonia Designs, Kingman Visual, Brisbane Signs & Engraving, Albert Smith Signs, Insigns, Signs & Lines, Neon Signs Australia, Atomic Signs and CV Media & Signage. This year’s People’s Choice Award went to What's That Guvnor? by Liberty Signs (Full Vehicle Wraps).

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Jetmark and Jetmark Signage Partners are helping businesses to get going again with some amazing deals under the 'Deal-a-Day' banner. Each day, a product is chosen to offer massive savings for orders placed between 7am and 7pm. Today's (Oct 5th) deal can deliver 850mm x 2000mm retractable banner stands for - wait for it - $16.90 +gst  each! Don't delay, check it out before 7pm.

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Recently established industrial inkjet supply company INKdustrial, has announced a waste ink collection and disposal service for the industry, initially in in NSW. The EPA of NSW has approved the disposal method, says Director John Bryson.

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The PVCA’s annual Print2Parliament! is back on this year and bookings are now open for the event that will take place at Parliament House in Canberra on Tuesday 30 November 2021 (6:30pm-8:30pm). Wide format strongly represented by Visual Connections.