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Tickets are now on sale for this year’s ASGA FESPA Australia HP Awards for Excellence dinner to be held in Brisbane on 1 October, after being postponed due to Covid.

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Mimaki is set to enable sign & display printers to address new high-value, high-quality industrial print applications with the launch of its latest product innovations. The company has unveiled four new high-speed, high-quality direct-to-object UV LED inkjet printers – the 190% faster UJF-7151plus II and the new UJF-MkII e Series, comprising three advanced, small format solutions.

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National signage business CV Media & Signage has taken its powder coating in-house with installation of a new powder coat booth at its factory in Hendra, Brisbane.

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Supplier Kayell Australia has told customers they have until 29 September to buy Epson inks at existing prices before an 8% price rise takes effect from 1 October.

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Fujifilm Business Innovation Australia has expanded its signage printer line up to include the 64-inch Epson SureColor R5000 and R5000L (large ink capacity) resin ink series. 

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Mutoh Europe has unveiled the new XPJ-1642WR water-based inkjet printer that integrates new print heads and new dye sublimation inks to deliver high quality graphics for transfer onto all flexible and rigid polyester materials.

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Electronics For Imaging has introduced its third new digital textile printer of 2021. The new Hyper model prints at up to 13 linear meters per minute, “delivering the world’s highest real production throughput for a scanning/multi-pass digital textile printer.”

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oOh!media has launched a new Out of Home campaign designed to encourage Australians to get their COVID-19 vaccinations as soon as possible so they can get back outdoors.

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Each for differing reasons, three notices of liquidations have been published by ASIC in the past week. Perhaps Covid has played a part but it seems each had its own underlying issues before the pandemic impacted.

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Melbourne-based wideformat supplier Total Image Supplies is looking for an all-rounder who can take control of the warehouse SKUs and also handle local deliveries of wide format consumables. The growing company recently moved into larger premises in the Fairfield, Melbourne area.

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D&D Signs of Whangarei in Northland, New Zealand, is offering its customers all Covid signage at cost price. “Signage plays a crucial part to inform customers and staff of correct procedures to meet the guidelines that allow us to open in these crazy times.” 

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Established in the mid 1990's as The Printery Queensland, Sunshine Coast printing company TPQ Design and Print offered a full range of offset and digital printing, including large format, signage, graphic design and online web-to-print technology.

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Supplier Spicers has informed its customers there will be an 8% price increase on Epson inks from the 1st October 2021. Epson Australia has confirmed it has adjusted ink SKU pricing, but maintained hardware prices.

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Avery Dennison Graphics Solutions has announced the return of the Wrap Like A King Challenge and says wrap installers from over 40 countries are now invited to submit their best full print or colour change vehicle wrapping projects.

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New data shows worldwide shipments of large format and industrial printers slowed slightly year over year in the second quarter of 2021, as Label & Packaging printer shipments jumped by more than 27%.

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Canon Europe has launched four new imagePROGRAF GP series large format printers, including the imagePROGRAF GP-4000 (44 inch) and GP-2000 (24 inch) that use 10 colours including red, orange, green and violet ink plus fluorescent pink ink, and the imagePROGRAF GP-300 (36 inch) and GP-200 (24 inch) that use 5 colours plus fluorescent pink.

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Authorised workers from local government areas (LGAs) of concern in Sydney now have until 19 September to get vaccinated to allow them to continue to work outside of the LGA they live in, provided they’ve booked their COVID-19 vaccination by 8 September. It's the second deadline extension in a week.

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FUJIFILM Business Innovation New Zealand has appointed David Jupe as its new managing director, replacing Peter Thomas who stepped down last month. 

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In what can only be seen as a positive signal that face-to-face trade shows are returning, Mimaki Europe will have a physical presence at Luxe Pack, Monaco from September 27-29, almost the same time that Australia was supposed to be hosting PacPrint, now deferred to June 2022. Hopefully, we will follow Europe's lead.

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Vogue Signs of Coburg, Melbourne is being wound up following a difficult year in which it faced legal action involving a complicated family dispute.

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Signage production house Signs Unique Installations, trading as Unico Creative in Artarmon, Sydney, is being wound up and a liquidator has been appointed. This is sad news for a highly accomplished sign business.